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>depicts Nietzschean master as an effeminate soiboy who flees screaming like a girl the moment he realizes his mind tricks don't work on the strong and masculine Maskull.
>Depicts his creative artistic endeavor as nothing more than a meaningless, self-indulgent delusion that produces absolutely nothing of value and doesn't even come close to the likes of Earthrid's music.
>Has Maskull brutally choke him to death.

What did Lindsay mean by this? Was Crimtyphon an ubermensch? was Maskull? Or was it a rib on Hegel's idea of masters as these fearless men who spend their time doing "higher pursuits" like art and shit?

>> No.23989434

hegel is worse mindrot than marx its so goofy

>> No.23989437

nietzsche was always a kitschlord who couldn't endure the gnostic kakophany at the end of arcturus.

>i'm-i'm aestheticizing the tragedy of existence!!
negentropic kitsch.

no, retard, krag was the one and only true ubermensch. goggins' overcoming of physical pain is a greater demonstration of nietzschean philosophy than anything put to paper by european philosophers from 1850 to now

>> No.23989501

>>23989437
I'm still trying to understand this book. Please be patient. I only started getting close after reading Lamnet of Prometheus.

>> No.23989504

>>23989501
keep reading

>> No.23989510

>>23989501
>Lamnet of Prometheus.
Oh I forgot John C Wright wrote a whole thing on VtA. you're in good hands. wright is one of the good ones. one of those crypto-gnostic Christians like DBH

>> No.23989547

>>23989501
thanks for reminding me wright wrote an entire thing on voyage to arcturus, i was able to find the pdf. cheers

>> No.23989548

>>23989510
just don't take wright all too seriously. he's one of those cold feet gnostics. he'll follow the truth right til the precipice. still a vibrant mind

>> No.23989574

>>23989547
Lindsay apperantly has a fanpage dedicated to him. I got it from there. It's called the Violet Apple. Wright doesn't seem to be very excited about Lindsay's gnosticism though.

>> No.23989579

>>23989574
wright is wright. sharp but deluded when it comes to it read visiak's introduction to arcturus

>> No.23990754

this thread has appeared at a convenient time for me, as I have recently finished this book and had most of it go over my head. That's not to say I didn't enjoy reading it, but I am unfamiliar with Gnosticism and the like. Aside from reading something directly about the book like Lament of Prometheus, what else should I read to understand this stuff? Any good introductions to Gnosticism?

>> No.23991552

>>23990754
read eh visiak's introduction to arcturus available here: https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.219659/2015.219659.A-Voyage_djvu.txt