/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19266554]

>restarts the entirety of western culture after the solar flare sends us into the Stone Age

[Anonymous No.19266566]

>>19266554
I almost didn't recognize it, it used to be ordered by size

[Anonymous No.19266570]

>>19266566
It’s by genre now

[Anonymous No.19266577]

there are several anons here who, if they were forced to, could make a considerably cultural library just by combining their libraries.
I wonder what happened to all of Rapture1's books now that he's dead

[Anonymous No.19266599]

>>19266554
There are no material science catalogues
Get fucked

[Anonymous No.19266680]

>>19266599
I’ve got Newton’s Principia, a pocket book on the periodic elements, and the Pythagorean sourcebook coming soon for reference. I already have Euclid’s Elements.

I know that isn’t material sciences but it covers as much as I see fit seeing as how scientists are kikes.

[Anonymous No.19266753]

>>19266554
>Warhol / Chris Chan
Qrd?
>>19266577
He isn't dead

[Anonymous No.19266755]

>>19266753
He compares their arrested development, obsession with childish things, complete lack of awareness of actual art, and obsessive hoarding habits. He proposes they are of the same archtype.

[Anonymous No.19266761]

Please try and not be too impressed, I’ll go easy on you guys

1/6

[Anonymous No.19266764]

>>19266753
>He isn't dead

>William Donald Summers Pennington, 32, passed away on Saturday, August 28, 2021 at Georgetown University Hospital.
>William continued work on his dissertation and other academic projects alongside ongoing cancer treatments. One such project is The Pykewater Library, an online platform for sharing reading lists, knowledge guides, and other resources to "democratize knowledge worth knowing."

[Anonymous No.19266765]

If it’s easier for you all, I can explain to you exactly what these books are, I wouldn’t want to make you think too hard

2/6

[Anonymous No.19266769]

A lot of people ask me, “Bartholomew, how ever did you find the time to read all these books and live in a wonderful sea-view apartment on the top floor?”

Answer in next post, stay tuned

3/6

[Anonymous No.19266775]

Answer continued here, in this post.

I would tell them “Verily, I doth protest the lady does too much! I simply do not partake ins’t the reading of literaturism”

4/6

[Anonymous No.19266785]

>>19266680
NTA but you should at least keep a copy of Gray’s Anatomy in a library preparing for societal collapse

[Anonymous No.19266792]

Hold on guys, the end is almost near.

Please do not miss me too much or ask for an encore. As Wordsworth once said, “The show must end when it ends, and then the show will stay in your mind until you go home and tell your friends.”

5/6

[Anonymous No.19266794]

>>19266785
>>19266792
It’s right there

[Anonymous No.19266800]

>>19266764
Oh fuck. I knew he was a cancer survivor, but I am sad to hear this. I was on his website a few weeks ago and it doesn't say anything about it. The last contact I had with him was in March. Was there a thread on lit about it? Were you in his discord or something?

[Anonymous No.19266802]

On second thought I might sell all these books for weed and pocket knives

6/6 (books without spine text)

[Anonymous No.19266806]

>>19266800
Excuse me please, focus your attention to I, the original poster of this thread

[Anonymous No.19266816]

>>19266761
>>19266765
>>19266769
>>19266775
I admit that I am impressed.

[Anonymous No.19266819]

How’s you’re relationship with the governor?

[Anonymous No.19266827]

I've never seen someone so interested in the aesthetics of reading

[Anonymous No.19266833]

>>19266827
You can call me the dark academia king

[Anonymous No.19266851]

>>19266800
No, I only found out by word of mouth from another anon after I asked about him a couple weeks ago. There wasn't a sticky or any kind of announcement here as far as I know, not sure about what happened on his Discord

[Anonymous No.19266854]

Some "collection" you have—no /lit/ Annotated Moby-Dick visible anywhere

[Anonymous No.19266862]

>>19266554
>Human Action
>Bell Curve
Yeah you're going to stay in the Stone Age LMAO

[Anonymous No.19266865]

>>19266851
Feelsbadman. He was a great part of this board. I will miss him

[Anonymous No.19266876]

>>19266862
Thankfully. I hope every circuit board is fried permanently and all the tech workers starve to death and nobody remembers how to build this shit

[Anonymous No.19266885]

>>19266554
Wow, you do have no taste at all!

[Anonymous No.19266890]

>>19266885
I’m cooler than ALL of /lit/

[Anonymous No.19266921]

>>19266865
Yeah, I'd only talked to him on here a couple times, never met him IRL, never knew much about him or anything like that and I was still really sad when I found out he died. RIP

[Anonymous No.19267278]

>>19266680
Meds

[Anonymous No.19267667]

>>19267278
FUCK YOU AAAAGGHH

[Anonymous No.19267674]

>>19266554
We wont' be able to read it if we're back in to the stone age

[Anonymous No.19267708]

>>19267674
It’s really fucking easy to teach white children how to read

[Anonymous No.19267849]

>>19266554
Enviable library anon. Tell us more about it. How long have you been building it? What percentage of the volumes have you read? Are you an academic? I'm curious about your approach. It seems very focused.

[Anonymous No.19267859]

> I find your nest
> I kill and eat you (sorry but this is The Road scenario)
> Burn your library after remembering this thread
Anprim gang

[Anonymous No.19267913]

>>19267849
High school dropout. I’ve read maybe 4 books on that entire shelf across 10 years

[Anonymous No.19268699]

bump

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS No.19268769]

>>19266890
Yeah, okay, but are you reading them?
These two, specifically.

[Anonymous No.19268776]

>>19268769
I have proven in many threads that you don’t read books. You use my picture all the time and I already doxed you in another thread. Kill yourself dyke.

Also no, I like I said, I don’t read these books. I like to read magazines at the grocery store

[Anonymous No.19268778]

I think I can now say that I have the best shelf on /lot/, and I’m the dumbest person here.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS No.19268799]

>>19268776
>like I said, I don’t read these books. I like to read magazines at the grocery store
Ah, okay. Didn’t see it before. Well, no need to be so salty, enjoy your night, Puget Man

[Anonymous No.19268973]

>>19268799
why do you put yourself through this, butterfly? i'm just a parasite here to find shit i'd not find anywhere else (i think you may have put braudels structures of everyday life on my radar in a post of yours to someone else). from time to time i wonder why you stick around despite everyone here being so cruel to you

[Anonymous No.19268976]

>>19268799
Kill yourself

[Anonymous No.19268998]

>>19266554
How many of these have you actually managed to read?

[Anonymous No.19269044]

>>19268998
4

[Anonymous No.19269103]

>>19266577
>>19266764
Rest in peace, Rapture1. Such a loss

[Anonymous No.19269109]

>>19266554
Whats the pengion classic next to The Human Action?

[Anonymous No.19269110]

>>19266851
>>19266865
>>19266921
His discord is still functional, though pretty inactive, if you're on it post and help keep it going!

[Anonymous No.19269126]

>>19266761
>>19266765
>>19266769
>>19266792
>>19266802
>ALL translations
I gotta be honest anon, I'm not impressed. I'm feeling generous though so I'll give you a light 4

[Anonymous No.19269128]

>>19268769
Shut up dyke
Thats not even your picture

[Anonymous No.19269140]

>>19269126
How many languages do you speak on a level that you could flawlessly read and understand any text

[Anonymous No.19269150]

>>19269126
I’ll go and learn 8 languages fluently enough to study deep philosophy and poetry. Definitely won’t take me fucking yeeeeaaars before I even get to those books.

[Anonymous No.19269157]

>>19266802
Make your own spines

[Anonymous No.19269167]

>>19269157
The futurist manifesto was edited by me into an appropriate format with new fonts, and hand bound with traditional book binding techniques by my ex at her university. The doctrine of fascism had its cover ripped off and rebound with a manilla envelope cut to size

[Anonymous No.19269169]

>>19269140
English, French, Italian, Spanish and German
>>19269150
>Definitely won’t take me fucking yeeeeaaars before I even get to those books
So? You've got your entire life to read those books. Put in the work and learn some other languages

[Anonymous No.19269182]

>>19266554
Great shelf, thesenare the kind of books I mainly read
Needs more philosophy tho, you're lacking most of the tradition. No German Idealism at all, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Schelling. No Nietzsche or Schopenhauer either. Only Being and Time, no Husserl, Brentano, Twardovski, Berkeley. Only Fear and Trembling from Kierkegaard. No Aquinas, no Islamic philosophy, no Luther either. Good library but this wouldn't restart western civilisation
>>19269169
>No slavic languages
Cringe

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS No.19269187]

>>19269128
It is now

[Anonymous No.19269193]

>>19269187
Nice cat

[Anonymous No.19269205]

>>19269182
Look again

Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Aquinas. Husserl, Avicenna, Al-farabi, Averroes, Luther and much more are on my list once I buy/read them.

[Anonymous No.19269208]

>>19269205
Sorry, the first sentence was listing what IS on my shelf.

[Anonymous No.19269309]

Hey OP. Did you happen to take this picture?

[Anonymous No.19269311]

>>19269309
No, but that’s left bank books, which is down the street from me

[Anonymous No.19269604]

>>19269309
>Nobody is illegal
National sovereignty wont be questioned

[Anonymous No.19269608]

>>19269205
Guess that im blind then, genuinely haven't seen them but i really did just throw a look at the pics so i only have myself to blame

[Anonymous No.19269615]

>>19269608
I added Berkeley to my reading list because of you, so thanks

[Anonymous No.19269623]

>>19266554
Niggas really b out here talkin bout "restarting western culture" and they no cap be sleeping on the single most important book in the entire canon

[Anonymous No.19269829]

>>19266554
creatively purging every mediocre book before the collapse is the final redpill

[Anonymous No.19270595]

>>19269604
Nations don’t real. Individual sovereignty is all that can bring freedom

[Anonymous No.19270658]

I’m pretty confident I have the best shelves of any poster on this board. Too bad I’m a pseud who doesn’t read.

[Anonymous No.19271398]

>literally every race and nationality represented in your shelves
>not a single black author
Kek

[Anonymous No.19272894]

>>19266764
F

[Anonymous No.19273320]

>>19270658
The room and it’s view are the best part.
You may be a pseud, but you make enough for such a nice place.
Your book collection is bizarre though. Lots of contradictory tastes, a dash of pseud memer books. Not the worst, but not the best either.

Bump for the attention whore.

[Anonymous No.19273379]

>>19266554
Just came back from the thrift store

[Anonymous No.19273400]

>>19269829
define "mediocre"

[Anonymous No.19273501]

>>19270658
>I have the best shelves
See >>19269126

[Anonymous No.19273538]

>>19273320
>>19273501
That poster wasn’t me. And I’m being obnoxiously ironic in every post before this one

[Anonymous No.19273910]

>>19273400
thing that I dont like.
but being serious I think a mediocre book is one that fails to develop its own idea and is just a more or less meaningless presentation of data non fiction or fiction. if you used history books as an example it would mean the difference between an annal and a 'history' proper. if its not worth reading more than once or if its ideas are already developed better in another book then its probably mediocre

[Anonymous No.19274495]

>>19269309
This is what I imagine every upper middle class onions guzzler's library looks like.

[Anonymous No.19274509]

>>19269309
Not a single good book in sight

[Anonymous No.19275165]

>>19266764
F
Rapture seemed like a midwit centrist but he had a good heart, that's not common and it's worth more than intelectual prowess.
He shouldn't have died, we needed him.

[Anonymous No.19275590]

>>19266764
F. Poor guy was always too excitable and pretensions for his own good, but he did contribute to a number of memorable /lit/ threads. RIP and prayers to his family.

[Anonymous No.19275623]

>>19275165
I am nowhere near as impressed with myself as Rapture was, but I will try to do my part to fill the void he leaves here.

[Anonymous No.19275888]

>>19274509
It’s literally a far-left bookstore

[Anonymous No.19276786]

>>19266792
Your bookcase is made out of cardboard. At least buy an antique one made of walnut or mahogany with tasteful carvings, you child.

[Anonymous No.19276803]

>>19271398
good

[Anonymous No.19276813]

>>19276786
Wood contains lignin and acids which will leech into your books and cause the paper to become yellowed and brittle and eventually fall apart

The cheap veneered cardboard bookshelves (Ikea-style) are unironically the best solution for home book storage

Obviously metal would be better and that is what is used in all professional archiving, but it is expensive and looks like shit in your home

[Anonymous No.19276825]

>>19276786
This is awful. Probably some mid 19th century American woodwork larping as an antique

[Anonymous No.19276871]

>>19276786
I would love to have something like that but I don’t have $700 to drop on 4 bookshelves each. That’s $2800 for something I already have.

[Anonymous No.19276876]

>>19276813
This is interesting, didn’t know this

[Anonymous No.19276941]

>>19266764
Now I feel bad for making fun of him for being bald and dying. I've never doubted his sincerity or his good intentions but he was so far up his ass that I would probably do it again if he were to somehow resurrect.

[Anonymous No.19277072]

>>19276825
It's from Great Britain as far as I can tell.

[Anonymous No.19277079]

>>19276813
You can buy liners to prevent this from happening.

[Anonymous No.19277150]

nothing to see here, just a janny cleaning up OP's mess

[Anonymous No.19277156]

>>19277150

[Anonymous No.19277167]

>>19277156

[Anonymous No.19277176]

>>19277167

[Anonymous No.19277183]

>>19277176
also I can't help but notice how clean most of the books are. Do you actually read them OP?

[Anonymous No.19277298]

>>19277183
I do. But I also don’t take them outside my home and I hold them calmly. That copy of The Glass Bees was in jail with me for 4 months and was haphazardly thrown into a mesh laundry bag on my train ride back from jail. Still looks brand new. I take care of my things. I also don’t crack spines; do I have to angle the book to see the inner text? Sometimes, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make to be able to pass these on to my children someday.

[Anonymous No.19277542]

>>19277150
>The Oera Linda Book
Incredibly based

[Anonymous No.19277552]

How many books do you have total?

[Anonymous No.19277555]

>>19266554
no bible

[Anonymous No.19277588]

>>19266802
you are missing this based volume big guy

[Anonymous No.19277615]

>>19277167

What's your grip strength at? Must be rough plucking out the bottom book

[Anonymous No.19277758]

>>19277555
It’s literally the second book on my shelf. Look again.

[Anonymous No.19278113]

>>19266554
Very nice. Although I would argue you need more Spanish and Latin American literature. Like, El Cid, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Borges, etc.

[Anonymous No.19278257]

>>19271398
>>19276803
Thomas Sowell is alright.

[Anonymous No.19278279]

No Evola?
Carl Schmitt?

[Anonymous No.19278571]

>>19278279
I have almost every Evola book. You’re the third person to ask why something’s not there without looking first

[Anonymous No.19279864]

>>19278571
I'm a lazy cunt.

[Anonymous No.19279904]

>>19266599
Who the fuck would want to bring that shit back?

[Anonymous No.19279917]

>>19278571
But seriously. Very nice collection.
Are you a fan of Academic Agent? (youtuber)
He recently had several videos on Evola.
And also has a chapter in a book review every week which I think you would like.

[Anonymous No.19280440]

>>19279917
I don’t watch YouTubers

>>19278113
I have Cervantes on my list, but now I have the rest of your recs on my to-read/buy list. I usually get an author’s most famous work and then buy more if I like what they threw down.

[Anonymous No.19281404]

>>19266554
What are your favourites?

[Anonymous No.19281418]

>>19281404
Propaganda by Elull, The Holographic Universe, The Glass Bees, Aeschylus, The Gnostic Gospels/Nag Hammadi Library, etc

[Anonymous No.19281461]

>>19266680
>>19266554
If some event really does shutdown all technology, and somehow destroy every book except the ones in your shelf, specialists in fields such as math and most sciences can replicate the basic tenants of the field with relative ease. For example with the former, the rudimentary axioms and essential theorems are all easy enough to have been memorised by mathematicians. We'd be a set back a handful of decades at absolute most
social sciences like history, literature, and philosophy will suffer the most, the thousands of pages of details and all the hundreds of manuscripts are lost forever.

[Anonymous No.19281481]

>>19281461
When my list is finished I feel that I will have the Noah’s Ark of world literature and philosophy.

1/2

[Anonymous No.19281489]

>>19281481
Of course some will be missed, but the seminal texts will survive.

2/2

[Anonymous No.19282303]

>>19276941
I hope he's in a better place, though it would have been nice if he had spent some of his millions on something for the anons here.

[Anonymous No.19282397]

>>19266554
Cool shelf, my man. We're very close politically. Have you read Deleuze? There's this guy on Twitter doing a far-right reading of him so I think he'll get read more in our circles.

[Anonymous No.19282690]

>>19266554
All well and good but actually applying all that info to something practical would be the challenge

[Anonymous No.19282894]

>>19282397
Literally on my shelf, why can’t anyone survey the books before asking

[Anonymous No.19283132]

>Mein Kampf
Fuck off, Chud

[Anonymous No.19283280]

>>19283132

[Anonymous No.19283303]

>>19281418
Could you give some more recommendations? I know most of the books on your shelf and have read a fraction of them, what are some which are easy to pickup or especially interesting
I put The glass bees on my reading list since if anything I find it interesting how its a self insert and ahead of its time

[Anonymous No.19283348]

>>19283280
Moja Borba?

[Anonymous No.19283349]

>>19283303
Chaos by Tom O’Neill is amazing.
Evola’s Eros, In Praise of Older Women, also good.

I could recommend a lot of philosophy but it’s just the Greeks.

[Anonymous No.19283435]

>>19283349
Thanks lad, great library btw

[Anonymous No.19283518]

>>19266761
>western culture
>popol vuh
wat

[Anonymous No.19283823]

>>19283518
Western culture is responsible for the popul vuh surviving in any capacity

[Anonymous No.19283877]

>>19266794
Ah nice