I’m very grateful and happy that people prefer to read my analysis of books than those books. Loved this comment. I’m not going to do Japanese literature, though, because I have no feel for it, no frame of reference. I can’t do an interesting reading.
Also, to the person who asked about Nicolás Gómez Dávila, sorry, I’m unfamiliar. I took a crapton of “literature of ideas” courses but the only authors we ever discussed were left-wing. I’m guessing this thinker was t a leftie if I have no idea who he is.
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FWIW, I now plan to read it. I shall report on my findings when I’m done 😁
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Please do! Maybe I’ll be inspired to read it, too.
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sounds like a trans-novel.
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“Nicolás Gómez Dávila, sorry, I’m unfamiliar”
I looked him up, he was Colombian and I dont’ know about longer works but he had a gift for aphorisms.
Wikiquotes has several language versions. Weirdly the Spanish is very meager…
But on the English version (some with original Spanish)…
“To refuse to wonder is the mark of the beast”
“All literature is contemporary to the reader who knows how to read.”
“Technology does not fulfill man’s perennial dreams, but craftily mimics them.”
“Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.”
Weirdly the Polish version is very long… (translations my own)
“An artist who does not possess enough originality to create their own unique world, joins the avant garde.”
“If the idea of one’s country has no place for temples and graves, if it becomes the sum total of (economic) interests then patriotism is a mark of shame.”
“Violence is not needed to destroy a civilization. Each civilization perishes due to indifference toward the unique values that created it.”
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Wow, these are very good. Thank you!
Now it’s become very clear why we weren’t taught about him.
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