/lit/ - Literature

>>14472158
You know that figure you new as a child, a lonely abstract feeling, that always pervades the unconscious unknowingly which you at best can remember remembering it but only really pin it when you are feeling it?

This is that image?

"I think I might be insane"
*whimsical crying in the crawling corner*

"baahahahahaahaaa"

>>14402703
>Read the Bible
>read Plato
>read Wagner's Regeneration writings specifically the first, Religion and Art(: http://users.belgacom.net/wagnerlibrary/prose/wlpr0126.htm )
>but the only English translation of Wagner's writing is very clumsy and bad, done in the 1890's, and is often interfered with negatively even more so by editors
>watch The Passion of the Christ
>convert to Catholicism
>understand the necessity of Protestantism and all of the philosophies and sciences that this searching spirit has produced now in need of a religious realisation apart from the religious image
>read Aristotle
>go to Church a few times
>look into Orthodoxy
>read the essential Gnostic and Christian mystic texts
>read various Christian literature
>read Christian Theology most especially like Augustine and Aquinas
>read On the Jews and their Lies
>look into Hinduism and Buddhism
>prepare to read Kant
>read Kant
>read Schopenhauer
>read Fichte
>read Hegel
>read Schelling
>re-watch The Passion of the Christ
>hang yourself on a Crucifix in a public square yelling "FORGIVE THEM FATHER FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO!!!" while the police bring you down
>are martyred forever

Boethius
Caedmon
Dream of the Rood
Poetic Edda
Beowulf Poet
The Epic song of Roland
Cynewulf
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Snorri Sturluson
Nibelungenlied
Aquinas
Volsungs Saga
Cavalcanti
Dante
Petrarch
Boccaccio
Dafydd ap Gwilym
William Langland
John Gower
Geoffrey Chaucer
Gawain Poet
Thomas Malory

Spenser
Marlowe
Shakespeare
John Donne
John Webster

Other than a few Theologians and Sagas, this is all of the essentials right?