/lit/ - Literature

>>18031395
>But I'm of the opinion that you can't properly tackle these big works until you have read up a certain warchest of literature, so to speak
Don't fall for the memes, read what you like

>>17186477
>>17186506
A well measured response, and I will soon read your writings. I am myself less familiar with modern writers than I would like to be, and intend to investigate these things after I have finished with a few more ancient works (pic very much related). So hearing from well informed people such as yourself on this period is very useful to me as I currently don't have the time to do a full investigation of European thought.

My book is very strange, but it does possess a number of insights that give color to the Archaic world. Essentially, my thesis is very similar to the thesis of Jaynes' "Bicameral Mind". With the exception that I believe the "Bicameral Mind" to be the product of a temple complex culture that engaged in ritual consumption of hallucinogenic drugs. I demonstrate how these drugs played a critical role within the Religion of the Israelites in the Bible by sharing some unique insights I have discovered over the years. This has a certain bearing on the Archaic Greek world, and in truth, most of the civilizational traditions that came after the Israelites.

My first work covers the period of ~2000BC to about ~900BC. My next work will engage with the Greeks, Romans, Muslims, Renaissance thinkers, and a number of other sources showing the continuity of this hallucinogenic drug cult tradition throughout history, which was eventually passed down into modern times, although this tradition has only been grasped within secret societies who only reference it through occult symbolism (The Freemasons figure largely here). It's a dense work, but if you can read through it you can see how the civilizations of antiquity used to function, and how important hallucinogenic drugs were for the administrative officials in these societies. I think you will grasp these concepts easily, and it may make sense of some inconsistencies that currently exist within the conventional paradigm of the antiquities.

>>16734723
>My fiancee... eventually left me for a Proust scholar on the West Coast.

/lit/ problems lmao.

>>16649611
Great. Another series to add to the list.

>>15841708
the post you are referring to was absolutely 100% not written by Pinecone

Too late

>>15323682
That's one of the things I'm so impressed by as well, I don't speak/read German but the fluidity of consciousness, and even the utilization of re-constructed rhyme scheme have a very real and understandable poetic and logical beauty. (I'm reading the version by Joachim Neugroschel) Will look at your recommendations next, thanks.

>>15326672
Ah glad you got a chance to see my thread. I actually didn't ask that question last time, I was just lurking through that thread. Still need to read more before I can offer any contributions to these threads.

>>15161398
>Do I need background or I can have the minimal understanding by just reading it?
Reminded me of this post lmao.

No you really don't. I also recently started reading it. The outdated style of English might be somewhat perplexing, but it's all very easy to understand.

Reminder to quit the meme charts and essentials lists and to just read what you want. They are good resources for finding books, but stop slogging your way through garbage you don’t even want to read