/lit/ - Literature

I noticed a hole in my wall a couple of months ago. It's about as big as a chicken's egg, 1.73 meters from the floor. The hole is on the inside of the house, on a wall on the second floor. I flashed a light in and I saw nothing. I shoved a pencil in and accidentally let the go of it. I don't know where it went.
I pressed my ear against it and I heard nothing. Finally I armed myself with with courage and shoved a finger in. There was no change in temperature, no wind, no stillness. I moved around nothing and tried to touch the wall from the inside, instead, I felt my own hand when I flexed my finger, as if there were no barrier.
There is no echo when you scream into it. I placed in a long copper cable. It didn't fall, no wind moved it, there was no resistance from any surface or substance. The cable just kept going in somewhere, until I let go of it. Then it was gone forever.
I tried the same with a camera. The camera recorded pure black, and when I let of it, it was gone.
I began shoving trash inside. At the beginning I still felt as if the trash was going somewhere, pilling up. It ocurred to me that I could fit in piece by piece and entire human being and no one would ever find out.
I placed a poster on top of the hole. After several weeks it began wearing down the paper and finally made a hole through it. I've been observing it for years and luckily it hasn't grown an inch, but I need to regularly change whatever I hang in front of it.
I hung a framed painting of Jesus on the cross, it tore through his abdomen. I hung an iron eagle styled after the same that hung on the Reichstag in 1939. It rusted out. I hung on a high definition TV. It stopped working after a couple of weeks.
I nailed a rat to the wall. It's beginning to smell really bad, but I don't want to touch it yet.
I haven't told anyone about the hole.

There are some of the cliche ones like 1984 and lolita and there are the more philosophical books like the stranger by camus and notes from the underground by dostoevsky.
To be fair most of dostoevsky and camus's books are pretty dark, except dostoevsky's early works but they are still sad but not dark and gloomy like the post-exile/army ones.

by the way I'm selling this set right now probably.

$7,500

there is no finer set out there (that I've seen). Even though it's not a 1/1/1, it's a 1957 and very collectible. Absolutely perfect. (almost all 1st editions are in terrible condition or restored)

the first edition, earliest impression possible in the finest condition ever

>>23311174
I admit that I may have exaggerated a bit, as I quickly get irritated when people start trying to exclude German writers of Jewish ethnicity, although "no significant loss" doesn't feel right either.

>>23310004
Thank you for your detailed reply! I was planning on working through the French Assimil soon, so I'm glad that it seems to work. You descriptions of Sanskrit also make it quite tempting, hm. Yeah, I might actually give it a try someday. My interest in Greek lessened a bit since I primarily want to read Homer, Sophocles and Pindar; I care significantly less about prose works, so I likely won't try to aim for "high proficiency".

Have you used the Assimil course for Sanskrit?

>>23309982
Excellent question, but I sadly have to disappoint you and refrain from answering, as I'm neither well-read nor particularly educated. I am only planning to start properly engaging with Romanticism in a year or two, I apologize. Hopefully someone else can add their opinion.

>>23309939
I don't care too much about his literary opinions and he seemed like a dishonest person, but he can be entertaining.

>>23309728
>Tusculum

Reclam also has bilingual releases of Greek/Latin classics. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft too, but they are basically dead now. Meiner also has bilingual releases of Latin works such as the writings of Spinoza or Descartes.

I was also curious how you manage to maintain so many languages? Personally I am still interested in giving Sanskrit a try, but it seems too much for me – especially because I still have to learn Latin and Greek.

>>23309900
>do you genuinely think those jewish authors are good
I do, Celan especially. His translation of Night and Fog is also noteworthy. I also don't know what kind of "political inclinations" you're hinting at. Look up Borchardt and Kantorowicz again.

>>23309728
>Since you show some familiarity with German publishing, I'm asking you.
Coincidentally I actually considered studying Sanskrit for a while, so I have some knowledge of what's available! (Although I am only familiar of what's in print, can't say much about older releases)

Sadly there's no equivalent of those bilingual Loeb's, as Classical Indology is in decline and the demand is low. Klaus Mylius released a Chrestomathy of Sanskrit literature, this could come close to what you're looking for. Mylius also released a dictionary of Sanskrit which is considered to be one of the best; even saw Japanese people using it, so it might even be one of the best ones available in any language. But yes, there is an abundance of different textbooks, but sadly not many bilingual releases.

I would recommend going through the search results for Sanskrit on Harrassowitz, as it's the most relevant publisher in the area: https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/DEU/suche.ahtml?act=suchen&type=quick&keyword=Sanskrit

They also published the writings of different Indologists, books on related languages such as Pali and a seemingly bilingual and annotated release of Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamaka-Karikas.

Other than that only Buske and Reichert have a few books on Sanskrit. You might find some results in archives if you type in "Sanskrit Lesebuch".

>>23296949
Is the inefable reality of a fictitious character, trapped in terrible dialogue

>>23294085
Don't mind me best post when I clicked on lit

>>23230620
would rope

>>23228293
Ralph Adams Cram is the only architect among them. Erwin Panofsky and Otto von Simson were theorists. Eric Gill may have done some domestic stuff but it wasn't his forte. There are also of course those medieval architects that left behind texts, like Abbe Suger.

>>23214309
Ebay still has buyer protection and it's shipping overseas. Dangerous business that is.

>>23214305
you sure about that?
https://archived.moe/lit/search/subject/Collectors%20/

>>23214301
I'm a well known collector I trade mostly on grps and not ebay. In this case, the one who bought the item knows me, and he is a massive dealer in the community himself.

Guys, stop giving him attention. I have been posting here for two years and he does this nearly every thread.