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Anonymous Tue Dec 8 03:12:00 2020 No.16975050 [Reply] [Original]

Other than Neitzsche and Aristotle, what to I need to have read to engage with his work?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 8 03:15:09 2020 No.16975065 >>16975050 Bakker always writes with copies of Thus Spake Zarathustra, Blood Meridian, and the KJV Bible close at hand. He’s a big Wittgenstein guy. And of course the Silmarillion and Dune.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 8 09:35:31 2020 No.16976466 bump. bakker is criminally underrated by this board. why? his books are basically everything a /lit/neet dreams of — philosophically rich, mccarthyian, herbert-inspired, politically incorrect, Gnostic. were you filtered by the black coom?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 8 09:46:23 2020 No.16976534 >>16976466 i'm hoping he'll pick up in a year or two. and yes he is all those things

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 8 09:47:25 2020 No.16976542 >>16975050 get a good grip on his Blind Brain Theory, its a huge theme in his fantasy books