/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21246222]

>I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.

[Anonymous No.21246231]

>>21246222
It's true, but Pessoa say it better.

[Anonymous No.21246235]

>>21246222
Classic Satanist pseudery, removed himself so far from himself, any pretence of values, etc. he's left open to these type of pseudo-philosophical explanations of reality. Doesn't want personal responsibility, least of all in what he believes.

[Anonymous No.21246238]

>>21246222
Time to reheat the Jeets.

Who is the I who isn't thinking this?

[Anonymous No.21246412]

>>21246231
Can you post what he said?

[Anonymous No.21246422]

>>21246222
>listenining to pudgy norwoods

[Anonymous No.21246425]

>>21246412
Read his Book of Disquiet, it's full of reflections on this subject. His refusal to accept a single, static identity led him to create a whole bunch of "heteronyms" and the results are beautiful as well as insightful.

You can read it like a collection of aphorisms - opening the book at random - or try to construct a traditional narrative, but the point is any throughline will be the reader's invention.

[Anonymous No.21246432]

>>21246425
I'll definitely have a look! I really like the quote OP posted as it resonates with a thought I've had, but I'm not yet able to fully verbalize it. It has in some way been artistically portrayed by Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.

[Anonymous No.21246449]

>>21246432
Yes, Bateman is an aspect of this sort of "unself"-awareness, but it takes many forms. Pessoa managed to shape Portuguese forevermore literature with his.

[Anonymous No.21246776]

>>21246425
>>21246231

Irony is that Pessoa himself read Crowley and even helped him to fake his death in Portugal.

[Anonymous No.21247856]

That's one way to admit you're a hylic.