/lit/ - Literature

>>16379531
Nice!
Remember though. It’s not a competition

>>16379531
Fuck, I wish this guy was my father. All my father has in his library is math shit and engineering trash. That guy's library is my dream library as a kid.

>>16379560
based dad

>>16379531
That's really not much. If you can't have that library by his age, you made some particularly bad decisions / had a rare bout of bad luck.

>>16379531
based. i love this man. he's got a calming voice. i'd smoke a cigar and drink some tea whilst reading with him.

>>16379531
Who's the author of the book that says 'Plays' (happens at 8:40)? It's a late 19th century writer. Pic related.

>>16379641
some fag
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>>16379641
William S. Maugham?

>>16379810
Since I will never know the answer, I want to believe this is the one. Thanks, butters.

>>16379531
Yeah but at least I don’t make the noise he makes with his mouth everytime he opens it

>>16379558
do you ever shut the fuck up?

>ywn be as based, inteligent and well read as this guy

>>16379855
I haven’t said a word since I got home.

>>16379855
Why don't you make me shut up?

This guy is selling his house in Maine somewhere in Aroostook county. I remember seeing the library and instruments in the basement in Zillow. I think.

>>16379558
How do I get the filter to work? I'm a brainlet :'(

>>16379531
I probably will have a library larger than his, unless it so happens that I become poor.

As of now, I have accumulated more than 1,000 books, but using only my father's money. As soon as I find a job my books will come much faster and in higher quantities.

>>16380032
Remember to read them all or else you're a pseud.

>>16379531
I've got about a third as many books as he does, but at least half are on China. I only have entry level Greek and Roman books, and they almost all fit on one shelf.

>>16380038
Watch the video, skip to 18:40

>>16380038
> “The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore, professore dottore Eco, what a library you have ! How many of these books have you read?” and the others - a very small minority - who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you don’t know as your financial means, mortgage rates and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menancingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.”

>>16380098
Glad to hear him say this

His own knowledge was clogged by the voices of incorrect opinions over hundreds and thousands of years

>>16380101
Incredibly based Eco

>>16380101
>thirty thousand books
for fuck's sake

>>16379855
>>16379962
A fourty years old make a whole board seethe out of existence
Can chuds even live with this?

>>16379855
Do shelffags ever realize there's nothing impressive about owning so many books?

>>16380140
it's rarer and rarer every day.

>>16380140
There can be something impressive when you look at the contents, though.

There are books which you will only find in the libraries of very well-read and erudite individuals.

>>16380168
Well, I suppose. As an example (good or poor) I've got more short story anthologies than novels.

>>16380101
I’ve seen a poster here named rapture claim a library with 25,000 or so
I can’t even picture what that would look like until something like Eco’s video
Even then just the physical space is hard to think about
I’d say I’m more curious than jealous but still a little of both

>>16380132
He needs more

>>16380181
My (relatively small) library has books in around ten languages (I can read a few of them, but Latin, German, and Greek I am still studying - Anglo-Saxon I haven't yet begun), and you can infer from it that I am multilingual. It also has some slightly arcane books, such as a 500 pages treatise on rhyming, the collected literary criticism of Geoffrey Hill, a 17th century Portuguese treatise on marriage, a Gallimard volume containing all of the major French medieval chronicles, a volume of Landor's Imaginary Conversations, and more.

A library is a reflection of the the soul of the owner.
You can learn a lot about Pessoa or Spinoza by looking at their personal libraries. Those weren't big libraries (Pessoa's was just a little bit bigger than mine, and Spinoza's much smaller) but the very choice of the books they bought already reveals many interesting things about their passions and character.

Here is Spinoza's: https://www.librarything.com/catalog/BenedictusdeSpinoza.. You can see he had Machiavelli, Descartes, Quevedo, Thomas More, Gongora, Petronius (yes), Francis Bacon, Martial (yes), Hobbes... Not really what you would expect from a Sephardi Jew living in the Netherlands. Those were the books that made Spinoza the radical and original thinker that we so admire.

Here is Pessoa's: http://bibliotecaparticular.casafernandopessoa.pt/index/aut/index.htm.. You can find the Latin classics, Stoic philosophy, many 19th century English works, Whitman, and more, all of which did have an influence on Pessoa's style and his heteronyms. (That website is great, by the way. You can actually download the books and see what Pessoa wrote on the pages as he read. You can see his editions of Shakespeare, his Fitzgerald... Nietzsche's personal library is also available for you to do this, but I forgot the link).

Disparaging the value of a good personal library is a philistine attitude.

>>16380192
Isn't that the poster who loaned his library for researchers? He even posted the library website.
One of my professors had a library of 30,000 volumes, which contained one of the biggest existing collections of Brazilian popular literature. He had a separate apartment just for his library.

>>16380298
>a Gallimard volume containing all of the major French medieval chronicles
what's the exact title?

>>16379595
>That's really not much. If you can't have that library by his age, you made some particularly bad decisions / had a rare bout of bad luck.
How do you know what’s “not that much” and “what’s a good library for a 50 year old man” as an 18 year old zoomer?

>>16380304
Historiens et chroniqueurs du moyen age: Robert de Clari, Villehardouin, Joinville, Froissart, Commynes.

OK, perhaps it doesn't contain all of the major chronicles, but it's a good volume regardless, 867 pages long. A fine acquisition. And I bought it for a cheap price too.

>>16380390
Thanks, btw are you Portuguese? I remember visiting a Pessoa website with all his poems in Portuguese but can't find it now, do you happen to know the website?

>>16380396
Brazilian.

http://arquivopessoa.net/textos

>>16380410
Yes, that was the site! Thanks a lot, mate. Brazilian anons are always sources of wisdom or maybe it's been you all along lol

>>16380418
You're welcome.
It's rare to find non-Portuguese/Brazilian anons who can read Portuguese.

>>16379531
Thank you for this video OP, always good to see people show off their libraries but I'm a but surprised that he didn't think to mention the Islamic philosophers

>>16380192
Ape on /x and rapture on this board are the two most exceptional libraries I’ve seen online, including reddit.
Funnily enough, both ape and rapture seem to have made efforts to share their libraries somehow. I think ape took down his stuff but I’ve also seen rapture’s threads and he’s been posting around lately.
Those two seem to be the gross exception, though.
I’d love to see pics of either. I think it’s hard to picture it, too, and seeing a well-stocked library in a nice environment makes me happy. Even just a sense of the house that holds it all, even.

>>16379531

This is nice and soothing. Thanks, OP.

>>16380351
I'm 29. I don't understand why you made this post.

>>16380132
kek

>>16381493
I’ve never seen ape’s library but would love to if you have pics. I don’t go to /x very often.
I’ve saved a couple pictures from raptures website that he took down. I know he still has pics of his “archives” on his website but he used to have a couple pics of the structure that housed them. It’s pretty much a mansion, what you would expect for someone they wealthy. Haven’t seen what the inside looks like, though. I imagine something like pic related.

>>16382587
who the fuck's ape and rapture?

>>16382613
i know more about rapture because i frequent /lit more than /x, but both seem like extremely richfags who have been collecting libraries and sharing them in different ways. rapture has been posting for years, used to post shots of his library in shelf threads but now just builds threads shilling his site and his project. i think he now has a discord as well.
ape seems to have been much more in the realm of occult/esoteric literature, but his library was great and he shared a shitton of pdfs/links to rare magika and so on. he took it all down after being trolled, though, and i haven't seen anything from him in months.
i think both are in their late 20s/early 30s.
rapture is still posting, though he also has cancer so its unclear how long that will last.

pic is pre-cancer rapture from his website. i'm assuming the background building is also his and what i imagine is his main library, though i don't know for sure. dont know where it is--i think somewhere in the northeast in MA or something.
not sure where ape is from.

>>16379855
Not as long as you keep feeding it

>>16380101
he should check out wikipedia

>>16382735
He used it sometimes but only for really basic thins like dates and such.

My library is pretty good (noticeably better than most I see posted here). Too bad I never read anything these days.

>>16380139
yep you called me out, but how do I get them to work, I've never managed to get them to filter anything

>commentaries
>homer cock sucker
OH NONONONO

>>16379855
One of my greatest accomplishments on this board was getting butterfly to stfu once.

>>16383655
type in "how to filter trips on 4chan" on duckduckgo