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12522758 No.12522758 [Reply] [Original]

When Eliot bangs on about tradition, is he literally referring to Homer in Homeric? The Book of the Dead in Hieroglyphs? The Troubadours in Provençal? Mahabharat in Sanskrit? The Tain in old Gaeilge?

By this reasoning, is everyone on this board, including me, full of shit?

>> No.12522856

>>12522758
Are you literally talking about Eliot Rogers?

>> No.12522882

>>12522856
TS Eliot you fucking idiot, I'm not even OP, but I was scrolling through and had to stop by to tell you what a goddamn idiot you are

>> No.12522899

>>12522882
Then my work is fucking done played your punk ass like a fiddle.

>> No.12522924

>>12522899
>was only pretending to be retarded.jpg
>look mom I made him post!

>> No.12522938

>>12522924
>feigning ignorance in jest doesn't make for good fun because moot said so

>> No.12522959

I saw five posts & assumed someone had answered my queue, but it was just a load of crap.

I suppose that does answer my queue, tho.

>> No.12522985

>>12522758
OP, the most serious answer I can give is that by asking this question, you're confusing the external form/expression of specific traditions with the spiritual principles of Tradition which inspire all of the above.

>> No.12522987

>>12522959
Maybe if you didn't namefag stuff like this wouldn't happen

>> No.12523011
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12523011

>>12522758
I think he's referring to AUTHORITY, (and in his own context, he's referring to Western (and Christian) Civilisation and its canonical texts. see Notes Towards a Definition of Culture by him)
He was an individual in a world where the routine way of life was crumbling never to return through science and war.
And by connecting each act of creating A E S T H E T I C S with the TRADITION in a way they fight each other but eventually reach a middle ground, he is following the footsteps of M. Arnold and trying to reconcile Anarchy with Culture.
And about your question: that's for the T R A D I T I O N to decide.

>> No.12523675

>>12522758
He was keen on european medieval lit as well
=)