Who sent you down the rabbit hole of becoming who you are today.

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>>23402170
The fat bully I had as a "friend" and the Jews. In my book there is an Ashkenazim maniac called Faggy inspired by him.

[Anonymous No.23402213]

I wish I was kidding but I'm not. I was turbo-materialist autist (obsessed with mechanical devices and shit like military history) until I discovered her, and by sperging out about her influences, discovered much of what I now know of literature and art.

[Anonymous No.23402222]

I did this to myself

[Anonymous No.23402230]

>>23402213
you like her music?

[Anonymous No.23402232]

>>23402222
>taking responsibility for your actions
ngmi

[Anonymous No.23402233]

>>23402204
+1

[Anonymous No.23402237]

>>23402230
You would think that was implied given that I said she changed my life, but yes. Incidentally, my tests for whether someone has a functioning soul and sense of whimsy is whether they can at least tolerate Joanna Newsom and/or Topsy Turvy (1999). If they can't stomach either than they either an incredibly hopeless bro (who is perhaps too concerned about being perceived as gay) or an ice-cold bitch of a woman.

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>>23402186
suggest any work of his?

[Anonymous No.23402264]

>>23402170
Probably Nietzsche, as gay and trite as that is

[Anonymous No.23402266]

>>23402258

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>>23402170

[Anonymous No.23402283]

I feel like this man is responsible in some way for at least 50% of what I am.

[Anonymous No.23402291]

Interesting question, I'm not entirely sure. Maybe Dosto, I don't even think I take much from him but he definitely started me on a path

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[Anonymous No.23402448]

>>23402170

[Anonymous No.23402455]

>>23402170
Jesus

[Anonymous No.23402574]

>>23402170
Burroughs. His work deprogrammed me from being a normie. I've said this once, I'll say it dozen times more, but many an anon is filtered by his work as it's meant to be read as a manual of deprogramming yourself from external control.

[Anonymous No.23402582]

>>23402448
Are you the Miller, anon, by chance? The one who pops up in shelf threads?

[Anonymous No.23402584]

>>23402186
Based. Apparently he read from dawn to dusk and in 7 languages to boot

[Anonymous No.23402617]

>>23402582
Yeah that’s me

[Anonymous No.23402704]

>>23402170
The Burrough family

[Anonymous No.23402734]

>>23402170
Him.
And no, this isn't the edgy and disingenuous response you imagine it to be.

[Anonymous No.23402778]

No one in particular, I've never gotten this sort of absent father worship some philosophers get. It's also very harmful: You end up relating every philosophy work you read to the first few you ever read.
If the general question is what first got me into reading literature, it would be my parents buying me a gas station copy of Romeo & Juliet when I was 8
If the question is what first got me to into philosophy instead, it would be reading 1984 when I was 10, near the end during Winston's torture scene the word "Metaphysics" is mentioned, and being 10yo I didnt know what it meant, so I looked it up, and then I asked my parents to buy Aristotles 'Metaphysics' for me, but being 10yo it utterly filtered me, but I kept at it

[Anonymous No.23402791]

Plato

The Rosary

A funny little contest that an NRx magazine advertised on /lit/ itself

[Anonymous No.23402872]

>>23402283
From the thumbnail I thought this was a picture of hitler at first and didn’t bat an eye.

[Anonymous No.23403154]

>>23402170
For 99% of us it would be Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.23403482]

>>23402170

[Anonymous No.23403483]

>>23402170
Picrel is probably cringe but about 30 years ago via my father at the age of 12

[Anonymous No.23403569]

>>23402170
This guy, and the outsider artist Henry Darger.

[Anonymous No.23403581]

>>23403569
>Henry Darger
can i ask how

[Anonymous No.23403590]

>>23402170

[Anonymous No.23403593]

>>23402213
God she’s gorgeous

[Anonymous No.23403596]

>>23402778
>I've never gotten this sort of absent father worship some philosophers get
Hey now, I write my own theory but my father was very present in my life and always supported me.

[Anonymous No.23403615]

>>23403590
sell it to me

[Anonymous No.23403895]

>>23403581
I discovered his work at a critical moment in my life. Personally, it was the thing that convinced me that art is not only a curative process, but also an analytic process, a method for interpreting the world and that we are better off in the realms of the unreal and in the realms of dreams than we are in "objective" reality. We can make our own myths.

[Anonymous No.23403932]

The Faerie Queene + an old sense that there was something in comparative religion and philosophy got me here. For better or worse. The beauty of the first two books made me stop in my tracks, inspiring me to read source material to get the full effect. Source material that was then expanded into a kind of curriculum spanning may different religious traditions and leading into to, aesthetic philosophy as it pertains to great art as mystical experience as well as metaphysics, phenomenology and psychology as continuations of religious tradition in a secular mode. Fuck I love that poem.

[Anonymous No.23403944]

>>23402170
Paul Town's books were very formative to me. I've only read It Is The Sequence and 2020. I want to say I "disagree" with them now, but more like I've taken the foundations and questions raised and started to build my own perspective off of those. Paul is almost certainly ASPD and the books are great because they're like a very self-aware and relatively self-controlled psychopath opining on the world and how he believes it functions. Still some of the best stream-of-consciousness type writing I've read.

He made no reference to CCRU stuff but that's mostly what I've been intrigued by since reading since it was the only other body of work that explored this kind of dark, inhuman way of thinking about the world. I'm trying to read more real literature but I feel like a bit of a hylic when I try to engage with it. Like I'm being sloppy with the truth the author is trying to disseminate and defiling it, which I can't stand.

[Anonymous No.23403945]

>>23402170
Some middle aged western crime fiction writer

[Anonymous No.23404327]

>>23402233
>>23402204
>the guy who tells you to not read a lot
>starts reading a lot anyway

[Anonymous No.23404338]

>>23402237
Wow. Your test for seeing if people have souls is tolerating pseudo cult middlebrow late 90s early 2000s slop

[Anonymous No.23404358]

>>23402170

[Anonymous No.23404368]

>read all his novels as a teen
it was over before it began, wasn't it?

[Anonymous No.23404378]

Jeff Kinney made me a monster.

[Anonymous No.23404383]

>>23404338
kek

[γρηγορεύω !!J89a5VVZH9B No.23404396]

>>23402170
God, ultimately.

[Anonymous No.23404404]

>>23404396
What form (authors, literary works, art works in general) did his mysterious ways take do you think?

[γρηγορεύω !!J89a5VVZH9B No.23404414]

>>23404404
Discovering Kevin Solway's website http://www.theabsolute.net when I was nineteen.

[Anonymous No.23404445]

>>23402170

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>>23402186
I read some excerpts from him and most of it didn't sound anything that you wouldn't have already noticed about how politics or culture works if you are a solidly right-wing person, plus it's all drenched in sanctimonious christcuckery that I don't care for. Like, libs are dishonest, cynical, and also treat liberalism as a secular replacement for christianity, what novel ideas.

[Anonymous No.23404478]

>>23402170
Some wonky Japanese author I occasionally greet on twitter

[Anonymous No.23404481]

>>23402734
If I want to read someone write about atheism and cooming, I'd much sooner read John Wilmot.

[Anonymous No.23404529]

>>23402170
this mf twink

[Anonymous No.23404531]

>>23402441
Which writing?

[Anonymous No.23404545]

>>23404529
What makes him so formative for you?

[Anonymous No.23404640]

>>23402204
Unironcally him, Nietzsche, Bataille, picrel and mark fisher

[Anonymous No.23404641]

>>23402291
For most westernized masculine minded art hipsters, this is the timeline
>early foray into philosophy; the Greeks, some modern theory, none of it speaks to you too much but it dips your feet in
>stumble upon Nietzsche: *mind blown*
>realize Nietzsche liked Dosto; read Dosto: *mind blown x2*
>start reading the other existentialists, small love affair
>love eventually turns to hate as you start seeing through them
>death of the soul
>start reading various theologies, go through a spiritual phase
>retain the lessons, but back to reality
>fiction from all over the world for the rest of your life

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>>23404545
Briefly said, made me go from convinced atheist/materialist/pessimist to deranged schizo.
No but really, made me re-evaluate every stance I had (just like every new adept to Idealism should), somewhat restored my sense of faith, completely changed my attitude towards death, and opened an entire world to me (that of romanticism). Restored the light in my life that I had long lost and there's that
Now even if I'm not a complete 100% idealist as I was shortly after I read all his stuff for the first time, but whenever there's something new I always have the instinct of analysing it through an Idealistic lens before anything else. And keep in mind I absolutely hated Idealism before (but I still hate Hegel to this day). Also Novalis somewhat got close to Hegel's thought much earlier than Hegel himself

Could talk about him all day (I already erased the post I wanted to write because it was way too long, too personal), and I can't even express in words what this fucking cutie makes me feel when I read him, but that's I think the essence of it. He great
His life is also heartbreaking and I want to feel whatever eternity he felt when he met Sophie for the first time.

[Anonymous No.23404710]

>>23404545
twink cock

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The first author that I had ever read that just instantly clicked with me on a spiritual level was Pynchon so probably him.

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>>23402170
These 2 essays changed everything in my life.
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/chesterton/orthodoxy.vii.html
https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2015-mirante-thesubcreationtheoryofjrrtolkien.html

[Anonymous No.23405162]

>>23402170
hunter s thompson, dostoevsky, tolkien. im pretty fucked up ngl

[Anonymous No.23405171]

>>23405162
oh hemingway and fitzgerald and some shakespeare plays too, the modernist basic bitch

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>>23404640
lol, you can kill the murderer without diminishing the sacredness of life.

[Anonymous No.23405282]

>>23404368
i fw heavy man
now i want to know ur top 10 reads

[Anonymous No.23405295]

>>23403932
should i read it entirely? I'm scared of its length

[Anonymous No.23405349]

but i got here thru morrissey

[Anonymous No.23405382]

>>23403932
I am a big fan of paradise lost. ur post might inspire to finally read spenser

[Anonymous No.23405395]

>>23402170
My partner killed himself
But before that it was Nietzsche
Then it was Jung
Then Kant
Then my partner killed himself
I don’t think this is a hole anymore. It’s never ending

[Anonymous No.23405398]

>>23405349
few great lines but thats all

[Anonymous No.23405474]

>>23402734
I'm conflicted by De Sade. At times he annoys the shit out of me and other times I think he was just a brilliant satirist of the revolution. His work is challenging to interpret and reading him can be a bore sometimes but other times I'm just amazed by him.

[Anonymous No.23405861]

>>23405295
Yes. Read it one book at a time if you feel better about that. They work as individual episodes. But you should definitely read the whole thing.

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>>23405382
Its way better IMO. I like Paradise Lost. I love The Faerie Queene. If nothing else I. an say that the meter elevates it past PL. I also remember feeling a touch of Milton kinship in the parade of the 7 deadly sins in the first or second book of the Faerie Queene. I couldn't recommend it more, especially for people that are already into mythic epic poetry.

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>>23404531
The Uncanny planted the seed in high school but I thought he was full of shit, generally speaking. When I went back and read the Introductory Lectures as an adult, I started off skeptical but open minded. About half way through I was struck by something he said that resonated with my experience and started giving him the benefit of the doubt. I'm not sure either of those two would be what I'd recommend to people interested in Freud now, though.

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>>23405382
TFQ has the advantage of basically being a fantasy novel about knights slaying evil witches and rescuing hot babes while also being a lyrical masterpiece and a poignant Christian allegory or whatever.

[Anonymous No.23405944]

>>23402170

It was all me. All I've ever done is piss away my good fortune. I have no one but myself to blame.

>be raised in a loving, stable two-parent household that never had money trouble, mom and dad genuinely love each other and me, they stayed together
>childhood was happy/uneventful, recognized early as gifted, shunted into some gifted programs, encouraged
>start underperforming on purpose in middle school to fit in with scrub loser kids that I got on well with, early in high school my very non-asian parents tell me to shape the fuck up (not in those words), you're smarter than these grades, c'mon dude
>improve, parents work very hard to get me into a good college
>Perform very well on ACT and SAT, not stellar but respectable, 98th percentile or so in both cases with barely any studying/prep
>college, actually manage to form a friend group at the critical first-month period
>then the drinking started
>the drinking
>started cutting class, just simply not going at all
>have to take time off and move back home, do a super-senior year later. I eventually graduate but GPA is ruined
>Take shit jobs while home to save up money, learn some grit but I'm around shitty scrub people again
>get my head on straight during super-senior year. I form the mentality that I am not here to socialize or make friends, just graduate and get out. Get on Dean's list again. This cements the attitude that I do best when I am alone
>graduate college, recession hits, take shit job in factory with plebs while living at home, many of whom are decent people just living their lives, but some of whom are also scum, including one guy who got sent up for attempted murder
>stick with this job for years. Form a personal policy of not mixing work life with private life. Never go out to bars or socialize with these people outside of work (I have my reasons. Like I said, some of them were scum).
>live at home, save up small pile of money
>never make any effort to seek sex or intimacy for above reasons
>eventually move out of home and short-term local apartment, quit job and move to city, long-term life goal
>just... simply... don't work, for two years. Living on savings, no welfare. Piss it all away.
>don't socialize with others. Actively refuse normal forms of socialization, make no real effort to seek out sex or companionship throughout 20s.
>actively refuse all social media (4chan doesn't count)
>money is almost out, take basic retail job and end up actually liking it, decent benefits, get promoted, pay is not awesome but I can support myself
>keep job for 8+ years
>turn 37, once covid culture dies down and I can aspire to something again it finally starts hitting me that I've been wasting my life and that life is truly pointless without some sort of partner
>continue to remain very comfortable with solitude (my comfort zone), it took well over thirty years for me to truly get bored with it
>cry
>do nothing
>turn 40
>remain alcoholic

[Anonymous No.23405955]

>>23405944
Wow bummer dude

[Anonymous No.23406103]

>>23405944
I fucking drink too

[Anonymous No.23406130]

Most of my taste in literature has been influenced by him, but his work is my favorite.

[Anonymous No.23406137]

>>23402170
Marx is what send me down the rabbit hole in the first place.
Found there Rousseau and Spinoza who influenced me a step deeper than marx did.

[Anonymous No.23406151]

>>23402170
Reading the works of Shakespeare at age 16 was tipping my toe into the pool.
Reading Ulysses and the Divine Comedy at 20 was a dive into the deep end.

[Anonymous No.23406165]

>>23406130
Nice. Who else do you like? I have found that Borges scratches a very specific itch that I have yet to find anyone else to soothe.

[Anonymous No.23406172]

Unironically it was just having a good history teacher in 8th grade who made me appreciate learning and school. It's a really long chain of events between that and where I am now, but the most relevant event along the way was me picking up a book on philosophy and actually enjoying it. Without that class I think I'd just be addicted to video games and anime. I'm not sure if the teacher would even remember me. I was pretty silent

[Anonymous No.23406177]

>>23406172
>the most relevant event along the way was me picking up a book on philosophy and actually enjoying it.
Which book?

[Anonymous No.23406181]

>>23405349
the boy with the thorn in his side

[Anonymous No.23406191]

>>23402170
Schopenhauer kinda started it, Gaddis sent it along the way

[Anonymous No.23406193]

>>23404368
Ngl The Recognitions broke me and my positive / neutral views about art and society

[Anonymous No.23406209]

>>23406177
It's called "Philosophy 101" by Paul Kleinman, part of a series of books called Adams 101. It's basically a crash course on both the history of philosophy as well as current debates

[Anonymous No.23406287]

>>23402734
i'd like to read this dude. someone joked about one of my comments being from him

[Anonymous No.23406376]

>>23402170
>Never read Any Rand but pretended like I did
>Only read a little bit of Nietzche and Marx
>Actually bothered to read this guy

[Anonymous No.23406380]

The /lit/ posters that bitched about Bertrand Russell. After engaging with his work, I realized that everyone here is full of shit.

[Anonymous No.23406389]

>I did

[Anonymous No.23406513]

>>23402170
God

[Anonymous No.23406522]

Also the apologetics posters, regardless of religion, reminded me just how overconfident and arrogant incredibly stupid people can be.

[Anonymous No.23406534]

>only childhood memory is a near death experience
In order: dosto, plato, sartre, camus, seneca
My dad is a brainlet and saw I was lost in my 15s and said “I would figure out the meaning of life someday”
I became obsessed by this idea thinking it would get me out of the suicidal and depressing thoughts, turns out life is depressing and we must strive out best anyhow.

[Anonymous No.23406573]

>>23402170
Jordan Peterson -> Ben Shapiro -> Destiny -> Peter Singer -> Plato -> Nietzche

[Anonymous No.23406576]

>>23402170
Me, of course. I would say God, but I've done too much messing up to say Him. He is, however, the One who has made something out of me despite of my own frequent missteps.

[Anonymous No.23406647]

>>23406576
You absolutely know that wasn't what the thread was asking and yet you typed out and posted your reply anyway. Fascinating.

[Anonymous No.23406651]

>>23406647
You don't just walk up to a gangsta and ask for his literary genealogy, playa.

[Anonymous No.23406653]

>>23406165
Oh I like quite a few authors, but other than Borges of course, I'd say Oscar Wilde, Kafka, Stevenson and Shakespeare are the ones I always go back to.
I know what you mean by his work scratching a very specific itch, which is why I read pretty much everything he's referenced as works and authors he admired, but he's in a class of his own.

[Anonymous No.23406661]

>>23402170
I don't fucking remember who I used to be anymore. I certainly can't trace my lineage on who made me become this way either.

[Anonymous No.23407112]

>>23404529
>>23404640
>>23403932
>>23402204
>>23402170
>>23405395
>>23406137
This thread is proof that people in /lit/ do, in fact, read at times. And read with soul. What wonderful, unique tastes, that take years, decades to develop! I only wish I knew the other authors in this thread to fully appreciate them as well. What a beautiful place this sometimes is.

[Anonymous No.23407325]

>>23406653
Oscar Wild is someone I only rediscovered after having a lukewarm reception of him in high school with his "The Picture of Dorian Grey," which I plan on re-reading now since I was gifted a collection of his fairy tales, which are really great. I think it was just a bad time to get into such a novel for me back then, I was real edgy and didn't have time for flowery mid century stuff back then, unless it was dark the whole time, like Poe or something, and even then only in short story form. Kafka is hit and miss for me though I think I have only read 4 stories of his. The Stoker and The Trial are hilarious to me where Metamorphosis and The Hunger Artist form a pit in my stomach that I don't care for. Not that I think any of them are bad quality, purely subjective feel. The Bard is a given once you get over the high school tint that hangs onto it. Public school can really fuck people into missing out on great material, in all of the subjects one studies there. I don't think I have read any Stevenson. Whats his deal? Where would you recommend starting?

[Anonymous No.23407329]

>>23406573
Oh fuck. kek

[Anonymous No.23407339]

>>23406209
Thats funny, I asked because I had a similar experience in a philosophy 101 course in college that I took to fill some general education requirement. Before that class I wasn't really into anything philosophy except maybe some pop-science books.

[Anonymous No.23407369]

>>23406376
did u read being and Nothingness?

[Anonymous No.23407953]

>>23402170

[Anonymous No.23407986]

Probably a good 10 years ago when I was 20 and had my first real crisis of faith, I was wondering how to delve to the bottom of the soul and find meaning.
I was looking into psychology first before I went into philosophy.

[Anonymous No.23408028]

>>23407325
Stevenson is, in Borges' words, an author which has been unjustly treated given his reputation as a writer of stories for children, like Treasure Island. And like what you mentioned yourself about Oscar WIlde and Shakespeare, it's a pity that many people miss out on some of the most delightful work of the English literature by a preconception and unfair bias.
You probably are acquaintened with some of his most famous works, like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, but I'd recommend giving his New Arabian Nights a read if you want to explore his work. It's probably his best collection of short stories, digestible yet vivid, and rich in its use of language.
I'll link one of my favorite stories of his, a short read to give you an idea:
http://public-library.uk/ebooks/61/1.pdf

GK Chesterton, who is also superb, was also an admirer of Stevenson, writing his biography in 1902.

[Anonymous No.23408047]

T.S. Eliot.

'The Waste Land' was the first poem to really speak to my soul.

The modernist project awakened me to the riches of Western culture, that lie neglected like rubble in the desert of modern life.

I fell in love with culture. I changed my degree to English Lit to immerse myself in it. Spent four years reading as many of the greats as I could. Gained a particular fondness for stuffy Victorian novels.

After graduating, I felt a bit at a loss. Managed to get a nice gig doing technical writing for a software company, but I feel unfulfilled spiritually. I write and play music a bit, but I don't have confidence in my own creations. I'm at a weird period now of sorting through my doubts, and trying to identify some goal to work towards.

Part of me wants to go back into academia, but another part of me thinks that's just a dead end.

[Anonymous No.23408064]

Probably this, reading it as a child

[Anonymous No.23408071]

>>23406573
Read some quality fiction, it can wake up your soul

[Anonymous No.23408077]

>>23405162
Unironically read the Narnia series

[Anonymous No.23408096]

>>23408064
I know its trash, theres just honestly some lines in it that really affected me as a kid, and I can see how that cascaded going forward. Other things have come into my life of course as an adult, but things move you less when you're older, you're a lot more sensitive to being changed by some external imagery, suggestion, or just a line in a book when young.

[Anonymous No.23408104]

>>23406287
He can be really funny when he wants to be

[Anonymous No.23408227]

>>23405944
In my early 40s and am a functional alcoholic. Hit me the other day that at this age it is the last chance to turn it around before health problems start accumulating in ones 50s. Kierkegaard is right - one will regret no matter the path. Have already been down one path, there is still time to go down another path and see what we can be. One more chance to be our physical, mental, and spiritual best.

[Anonymous No.23408581]

>>23402170
Maistre and georges sorel. im not a facist but it made me fundamentally question the entirety of the enlightenment and shifted my frame of politics from modern ideas to a broader way to govern society.

[Anonymous No.23409059]

>>23405282
>now i want to know ur top 10 reads
let's see
>Second Skin (John Hawkes)
>How It Is (Beckett)
>Ulysses
>The Tale of Genji
>J R
>Mason & Dixon
>The Golden Bough
>The Sound and the Fury
>Giles Goat-Boy
>Ada or Ardor
hard to compare books I read 10+ years ago to recent stuff but this is a decent sketch
pic unrelated

[Anonymous No.23409136]

>>23408028
That really is a good story. I like how the style really portrays what the substance is getting at, the long lines of text filled with different, imaginative ways of conveying the anxiety and desperation really make you feel a but of the anxiety yourself. And right up to the last few paragraphs I really thought this was going to be a grim story about the horror of living in a world completely determined for someone who's actions are damning. Damn good stuff. Its funny, I have actually read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde back when I had just finished my Poe bent and was looking for something more in that vein. I remember very little other than the scene where the narrator first encounters Mr Hyde in the street after trampling that girl. I will re read that and more of his stuff on your recommendation. Does he love his stories about mad men or am I getting a false impression from the two stories I know of him? I am partial to stories of mad men myself. He kind of reminds me of R.W. Chambers or Ambrose Bierce in the way he portrays them.

[Anonymous No.23409238]

>>23404531
Not him, but I'd recommend Totem & Taboo. I consider it his most speculative but insightful work. This also got me to other types of this kind of work through his references.

[Anonymous No.23409250]

>>23405944
You can find a partner at 40. You can even find a partner at 40 and be a relative loser. Just be realistic. It's about companionship, not idealism.

[Anonymous No.23409254]

>>23407112
Are you being sincere or are you being facetious

[Anonymous No.23409272]

>>23402237
>>23402213
You're a fruity nigga. And not the good kind

[Anonymous No.23409276]

>>23402213
Based bodhisattva Johanna saving one

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[Anonymous No.23409330]

>>23402170
For me it was Kafka that started it all. Read Metamorphosis in school when I was around 12 and it resonated deeply with me, as if Kafka spoke directly to me and understood the kind of pain and conflicting emotions I felt as a fatherless, lonely, awkward, sensitive teen I was back then. Then I found 4chan a year later and got into music and read a bunch of existentialist, buddhist and marxist literature which made me a marxist during HS but then I started taking life seriously and started reading the Greeks and the Bible. Today I'm a nationalist Christian.

[Anonymous No.23409336]

>>23409330
Cringe

[Anonymous No.23409344]

>>23409330
Tomorrow I'll be a Hindi internationalist
The next day I'll be an apolitical hedonist
Next week I'll be Pippy Longstocking
Someday, I won't be

[Anonymous No.23409355]

>>23409312
Based fucking UG.

[Anonymous No.23409942]

>>23409330
You started off brilliantly but became this horrible amalgamation of completely paradoxical ideologies by the end. More power to you if you manage to make it work somehow, I suppose.

[Anonymous No.23410076]

>>23404640
Never liked Fisher

[Anonymous No.23410103]

>>23409330
So I take it you're still in high school then

[Anonymous No.23410373]

>>23406165
Along with Calvino, I found W.G. Sebald's Rings of Saturn give me a similar feeling to reading Borges.

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>>23402213
You are a beta midwit who attaches himself to things because you emotionally like them, not because they are correct.
You are still a turbo-materialist NPC drone

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>>23410373
Cool man. Thanks for the rec's. What would you say is a good introductory book of Calvinos? I admit I know very little about him. I am drawn to the title "If on a Winters Night a Traveler." I feel like I have seen that line before but I can't place where. The summary for Rings Of Saturn makes me think of Goethes "Letters from Switzerland," which I greatly enjoyed. If it really does have that Borgesian flavor It could be a new favorite.

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>>23402170
it's actually hard to pinpoint one guy
Richard Dawkins opened my eyes on religion and god
Neitzsche opened my eyes on slave values and morality
kant opened my eyes on apriori knowledge which structures our world
hume opened my eyes on causality and problem of induction
Jared Taylor opened my eyes on race

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>>23411647
>ngmi

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>>23402170
me

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Sadly

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>>23402170
providence

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>>23406165
Calvino is probably the obvious adjacent figure (esp. Invisible Cities), but maybe try Chesterton? His essays and detective stories (both of which I recommend) are close kin to Borges', and I adore his long poem The Ballad of the White Horse and novel The Man Who Was Thursday (though the Ballad, as an epic, is not as Borgesian as his other work). If you just want MORE Borges, they won't tell you this, but Bustos-Domecq is the pseudonym of the duo Casares and Borges, which treads similar ground to Borges solo. "Gimpel the Fool" by Isaac Bashevis Singer reminds me a bit of Borges, as do some bits by Kafka (The Blue Octavo Notebooks, not his long narratives).

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>>23402170
no regrets

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>>23402170
>parents work a lot
>I am left to my own devices
>there's no one to save me from my own brain

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>>23410610
I'm not this guy >>23410373 but you should know going in that if Kafka depresses you, The Rings of Saturn might be something of a gut punch. It's kind of a rambling history of decline (personal; economical; national; environmental). Maybe try out Thomas Browne -- both Borges and Sebald were into Browne, a devout Christian doctor in the Enlightenment who wrote fantastic nonfiction drawing on broad knowledge (although Religio Medici and Letter to a Friend are less referential), and Urn Burial is (justly) held up as one of the most majestic works in the canon (Religio Medici, Letter to a Friend, and The Garden of Cyrus are also good; easiest read is probably Religio Medici, hardest probably The Garden of Cyrus because of the antiquated scientific language).

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>>23402170
Leopardi

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>>23403590
i keep seeing this and remain intrigued but i've never been tempted enough to buy it and find out

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>>23412177
I have actually had Chestertons essays and Orthodoxy on my list for a while now. I'm always down for a good long poem and The Man Who Was Thursday was recommended to me by a professor back when I was in college too. I will definitely check them out, and I will also be looking into the fiction of Borges + some guy (I hope thats not too unfair to Casares and I find out that he is just as talented in my research of him). Thanks for the recs.

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>>23412296
Of course! Hope you enjoy. The Man Who Was Thursday was one of the more fun classics I've ever read. B-D sometimes feels like a rehash of existing Borges, but if you adore him it should be fine.

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>>23412209
Urn Burial sounds really cool! If I am reading this description correctly its like an inspired archeological/ethnographical account. I'm excited to check it out.
>George Saintsbury, in the Cambridge History of English Literature (1911), calls the totality of Chapter V "the longest piece, perhaps, of absolutely sublime rhetoric to be found in the prose literature of the world."
I'm in. I'm not generally depressed by what people consider downer lit. There is just something about Kafka (or maybe his translators) that, when he isn't darkly funny, he is a bit dryly depressing. I find that a lot of what is largely considered downer lit contains enough of the romance of what was or could be that it tends to shine through in every part of it. I just don't get enough of it in Kafka to make me want to read more. Anyway double thanks for the recs. I will be checking them out.

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>>23402170
If your answer is Deleuze, OP, I'd be immensely curious to hear how his thought and writings had such a profound impact on you. Anyone else too if they feel that way. Also curious about anyone who answers Heidegger.

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>>23410428
Nice bait. I liked the part where you outed yourself as a pleb

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>>23402170
I'm not a commie anymore, but I will never be the same

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>>23413013
Nice cope.

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>>23413031
fav work of his?

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I'm not sure if I've ever read a book that was truly lifechanging. That said, Spengler was a huge influence on how I look at art and literature. Plato helped me realize that I'm totally clueless on many philosophic topics (such as ethics) that are in fact very important. He also made me realize that metaphysics isn't really very important or interesting. His Symposium especially made me think a lot about love. Also,
>kissing the mask
>sadly, porn
>the fratricides
>Paul's letters

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>>23402170
Engel's Family Private Property and the State turned my from a left revolutionary social democrat into a lib com historical materialist. I was a workerist before and after.