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What books would you suggest to show you how different things could be?

>> No.17297460

Owen Barfield, Romanticism Comes of Age
Colin Wilson, The Occult, and The Outsider Cycle

>> No.17297495

>>17297460
Thank you my friend

>> No.17297567

The Divine Comedy

>> No.17297731

Read the New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ

>> No.17297740

Ursula le guin

>> No.17297851

Tschaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, to me, is the ultimate piece of art that communicates just how different things can be - i.e. different from how things like are for you if you're posting on 4Chan.

As for books, Tolstoy's 3 novels about youth (Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth) seem to offer a radically different perspective on things than modern society. If you are struggling with the sort of post-modern atomization of things and the feeling of having no particular moral foundation, these novels, and all of Tolstoy's work can put you on a more solid footing. Tolstoy would not have written so much if it were easy to convey what he means and, especially, what he makes you feel, so I can't offer too much more than that, but everything in it affirms life and the feeling that everything is not, in fact futile, but quite the opposite.

Also, the way in which he describes the feelings and experience of youth/childhood are so finely-calibrated that they may increase your capacity for empathy with those in different phases of life than yourself - personally, I feel that they helped me to rediscovery gradations of emotions and memories of youth that vastly increased the scope of my conception of what human life actually is/what it all adds up to. The totality of the experience of life seems more expansive after reading those books, I think.

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>>17297731
Based.

>> No.17298190

>>17297442
Siddhartha was a bit like this

>> No.17299042

>>17297851
link me up for the first piano

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>>17297442
The Principle of Hope by Ernst Bloch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aclGXZ-Q77Y

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>>17297851
Good choice, but for me? It's Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto.

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>>17297442
Paradise Lost by Giles Milton.

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>>17297442
Ecclesiastes :)

>> No.17299402

>>17297851
I will recognize this man as more intelligent than I am.
I enjoyed reading this post.
Thank you.

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This Masterpiece

>> No.17299781

>>17297851
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZLMKkEGFRo

This piece does it for me. Mahler's 5th symphony also

>> No.17299797

Looking Ahead by Edward Bellamy is such a comfy, utopian bliss ride.

>> No.17299809

>>17297442
read the greeks and marvel at europe before the life denying death cult of christianity took over

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>>17297442
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

>> No.17300298

>>17297442
>>17299887
THE UBERMENSCH IS NOT PREDICATED ON THINGS | THE THINGS ARE PREDICATED ON THE UBERMENSCH | ONE CONSTRAINED BY THE NOUMENAL WORLD IS NOT ONE WHO REACHES THE APEX OF FREEDOM