Rapturous succession
This reading day has culminated in a rapturous way. Julian Young's Nietzsche biography, the part describing his early juvenilia and thoughts emerging from the crusty Lutheran basics, his intense interest in Holderlin, one of Germany's 3 greatest poet, then i go to him, a couple letters one to Schiller and then one to his brother, then to his poems for a bit. Then as i wistfully scroll down my kindle library i see Walt Whitman, just today i saw my booktuber idol mention Whitman as a secular scripture, and always in me is the awareness of how Henry Miller venerates Whitman.
One of the incorporating activities i need to do is write about what i read, it's a practice i need to learn, for now though it's the sheer love of reading, and is what i wish to communicate bluntly.
In profundity, many reasons are jumbled together, Whitman to me is grouped with the Transcendentalists, my go to's also will be Thoreau and Emerson. I saw a Amazon review on Hawthorne i think where they look back on the early days of America when there was such vitality, and then looking at the present day where it can indeed be seen as pretty grim. Also blended in my mind is some reviews on the Gulag Archipelago. A very unsystematic approach i have but it all seems to be connected, which i'm not doing a good job at conveying here, but it's basically that we can learn a lot from the past, what we might see as progress, ... think again, shift from your always perspective for a moment, see how the present can suddenly appear to be monstrous and out of hand.
Above all, before i go for an extra long sleep, i heartily recommend being excited about pure things, learning, growing, being more mentally prepared. Books are one of the best tools we have, broaden those horizons, feel bored and repulsed even by repetitive sexualized humor. Just a thought. GN ......:)
One of the incorporating activities i need to do is write about what i read, it's a practice i need to learn, for now though it's the sheer love of reading, and is what i wish to communicate bluntly.
In profundity, many reasons are jumbled together, Whitman to me is grouped with the Transcendentalists, my go to's also will be Thoreau and Emerson. I saw a Amazon review on Hawthorne i think where they look back on the early days of America when there was such vitality, and then looking at the present day where it can indeed be seen as pretty grim. Also blended in my mind is some reviews on the Gulag Archipelago. A very unsystematic approach i have but it all seems to be connected, which i'm not doing a good job at conveying here, but it's basically that we can learn a lot from the past, what we might see as progress, ... think again, shift from your always perspective for a moment, see how the present can suddenly appear to be monstrous and out of hand.
Above all, before i go for an extra long sleep, i heartily recommend being excited about pure things, learning, growing, being more mentally prepared. Books are one of the best tools we have, broaden those horizons, feel bored and repulsed even by repetitive sexualized humor. Just a thought. GN ......:)
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