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I bring to your attention the following text, written by the satirist, polemicist and drama writer Karl Kraus, an Austrian Jew, in 1912, probably when he was not writing one of his sexist aphorisms
I recommend you read it entirely

https://blackcentraleurope.com/sources/1850-1914/karl-kraus-on-interracial-relationships-1912/

>> No.22296413

>>22296407
What's wrong with writing sexiest aphorisms?

>> No.22296836

>>22296413
First, I said sexist, not sexiest
Second, no one said theres anything wrong with that
Third, read the fucking text

>> No.22297332

where to beging with K. Kraus?

>> No.22297381

>>22297332
With this text

>> No.22297394

>>22296407
I'm not reading this trash and you are a retarded faggot.

>> No.22297405

>>22297332
Bizarrely, Jonathan Franzen has translated some Kraus. Never read it though.

Tbh, I'd never read any Kraus before this post. I can see why Adorno and Benjamin thought him the big dog of the previous generation, and where their cryptic style came from. But he's 2cryptic4me, perhaps.

>> No.22297423
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22297423

>blackcentraleurope.com

>> No.22297427
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22297427

Why are jews so obsessed with this shit

>> No.22297460

>>22297423
Novalis was actually of 100% Eskimo extraction, brought over from Jesuits in New France as a child and then adopted by Saxon aristocrats, for being a curiosity, and for a certain glint of Arctic intelligence already discernible in his eye. I saw documents attesting to this suppressed origin, I saw the letters between the Jesuits and the baron, signed in his authenticated hand -- I saw them with my one eys in the archives of Universität Heidelberg. The researcher who showed me, a good man, was found dead the next day, shot in the early morning fog while unlocking his bike. The philologists of Germany have strange, savage devotions, and I fear that I too may be marked.

>> No.22297465

>>22297427
The whole piece is him mocking how *everyone's* obsessed with it. That's what the four newspaper clippings are clear evidence for. That's the whole thrust of his critical commentary.

>> No.22297491

>>22297460
>Novalis was actually of 100% Eskimo extraction, brought over from Jesuits in New France as a child and then adopted by Saxon aristocrats, for being a curiosity, and for a certain glint of Arctic intelligence already discernible in his eye. I saw documents attesting to this suppressed origin, I saw the letters between the Jesuits and the baron, signed in his authenticated hand -- I saw them with my one eys in the archives of Universität Heidelberg. The researcher who showed me, a good man, was found dead the next day, shot in the early morning fog while unlocking his bike. The philologists of Germany have strange, savage devotions, and I fear that I too may be marked.
write the book now

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>>22297465
>The whole piece is him mocking how *everyone's* obsessed with it
Do zoomoids actually believe this
Your whole generation should be imprisoned.

>> No.22297499

>>22297460
>my one eys
my own eyes... bad typo

>> No.22297503

>>22297492
It's at the explicit, literal level of the text. Did you actually read it?

>> No.22297506

>>22297503
No and I'm not going to. Piss off loser.

>> No.22297617

>>22296407
>Translator capitalizes the B for early 20th-century blacks in Germany
>Translator interpolates the original German between brackets for every N word, out of fear to write those words as his own, though ironically doubling the count of them

>> No.22297635

>>22297460
>Novalis was actually of 100% Eskimo extraction,
big if true

>> No.22297663

>>22297332
Last Days of Mankind , the greatest work on WAR

>> No.22297739

>>22297617
Isnt this the perfect analogy for the situation in the US and Europe?
Its seem as preferable to have more blacks, even with all the problems this could cause, than to be perceived as racist