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15678592 No.15678592 [Reply] [Original]

Any books on the appreciation of art, silence, the 'sublime', etc?

>> No.15678597

No.

>> No.15678614

One would think you could do that on your own

>> No.15678623

>>15678614
>>15678597
I've just seen about 2-3 other threads today asking for suggestions on books. What's with this response?

>> No.15678630

>>15678623
It's not the fact that you're asking for suggestions, it's what you're asking for. You don't need a book to appreciate good food, why do you need one to appreciate silence or art?

>> No.15678641

>>15678630
This is nonsensical. Why do you read anything?

>> No.15678648

>>15678630
Perhaps because I want to read another's viewpoint on such an important subject? Because I want to attain connection with an author? Because I want to be inspired? Because I want to ... read a book? I've seen a lot of shit on /lit/, but this takes it. Just suggest some damn books.

>> No.15678680

>>15678648
Perhaps? Ah, quite.

>> No.15678688

>>15678592
Look up Dietrich von Hildebrand

>> No.15678690

>>15678592

I assume you've read Burke Essay on the Sublime & the Beautiful. If not, you're probably not serious, coz it's the first thing you find when you Google the subject.

After that, you could try Ruskin or Walter Pater.

Alternatively you could just read some works that famously invoke the sublime. Milton, the famous bit in Wordsworth's Prelude, all the stuff by Shelley & that crowd, the purple passages in Moby Dick, etc etc

>> No.15678699

>>15678680
That insecure that a single word offends you? Consider that I might not be a 20 year old American kid. You know it's normal to use "perhaps", "whilst", "indeed" and other such words in civilised countries, yes?

>> No.15678701

>>15678614
You would think

>> No.15678728

>>15678641
To answer good questions

>> No.15678736

>>15678699
Is this what irony looks like?

>> No.15678751

>>15678736
The first person to become offended is infinitely worse than the second. The second is only defending himself from the needless offence-taking of the first one to become offended. He would rather not.