/lit/ - Literature

>>19284769
>Alan

>>19008256
>Guenon has answers for why valid initiation is important in his books and you should read them
Where can I read more about his views on valid forms of initiation?

Realistically, what's stopping me from walking into a lecture and getting a free education?

>>17960314
>Noah, Moses, and David did not believe in a triune God
Almost like it's revelation or something....

>>17931093
eBooks
>no book spine problems
>can take my library to the shop, bus stop, park, mall, etc
>easier navigation, again due to not having to hold the spine down and a digital table of contents allowing me to jump from any section in the book
>can take annotations and modify them however I want
>easier bookmarking
>ability to search for any word or phrase in the book, or even better, multiple books at one time
>ability to save all of my annotations, bookmarks, books, papers in the cloud or my PC by pressing a single button
>ability to change font color, size, and style (so if I wish, I could download an epub of Hume's Essays and read it in the original font, or I could get Goethe's Tasso and read it in Fraktur)
>can take screenshots of multiple pages and share them with my friends
>can instantly translate any foreign phrase into my language (no Latin or Greek though)
>have access to the entire OED and can look up even the most obscure words in an instant
>have access to other foreign dictionaries in French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Polish, etc
>have the option to speed read certain books by pressing a button which will presents the entire text in a series of discrete words one at a time whose speed can be changed to whatever
>can request entire books to be read by state of the art Voice technology, again, in multiple languages (example:https://vocaroo.com/1nBi4Bz2x8sR))
>able to read books not only from the 19th century, but also medieval manuscripts and modern florilegia
>books are free

Who are the 43 Canadians?

Is there a way to unmasturbate once it's happened?

>>17718154
What are the chances he's a sincere homosexual?

>>17581580
>>17581622
>>17581906
Then why do people say tall guys' personality is their height? You are all morons and have created your own trap.

>>17576470
You assume we haven't already found immortal truths about our being.

>>17548922
Populated, but by whom?

>tfw you know that Wagner secretly believed all of his characters were the same people born again through metempsychosis
This is high-tier esoteric Wagnerianism, you don't get it very often.

Very interesting thread.

Was music or poetry the origin of Greek tragedy?

>>17391550
How do I know whether or not I have an eidetic memory?

>>17308710
I don't want to give away my secret knowledge. Many people ruin everything by their constant use of it, I just want to personally recommend anons documentarys when I can.

>>17304769
I'm pretty sure he got a lot of his thoughts on Nietzsche from Bowden.

>>17270387
Scriabin.

>>17269574
That's philosophy.

>I'm going to write like Nietzsche, with anecdotal insults and irony, except it's going to be directed to my readers and not other famous figures. That way only the most intelligent and persistent readers will understand me. And it will be fresh and original.

I've got a new method, or manifesto of sorts, it shall be insulting of the reader to such a degree that he almost positively CANNOT himself evade out of the target range of the book. But there is no insult for insult's sake either!

>>17195548
Is this pro or anti/lit/?

Does Wagner succeed in having the same profundity in his Ring cycle as in Aeschylus' Oresteia?

Did he successfully revive Greek tragedy?

>>17151492
>>17151528
What if my book doesn't have an appendix?