12 authors of enduring the apocalypse
1. Samuel Johnson & 2. James Boswell -- when I get my money I will be getting some eBooks of these guys to be read on my Kobo e-reader. But tonight i'm reading from my Scribe Johnson's The Rambler, which was a series of over 200 short essays, these are PERFECT!! Boswell's Journals will be nice to read when I can, besides his bio of Sam, all of these 2 guys works head this group of 12 folks I wish to at least enjoy as much as I can for whatever time is left for me as a reader. For there cannot be too wide an array of literary consumption, but a buffet feast still as shall be shown here. Samuel had a condition that wasn't named in his lifetime that I share with him Tourrete's syndrome. I remember a psychologist who diagnosed me, he mentioned Kierkegaard when I told him a little about myself that he said was like the melancholy Dane, but now I'd like to go back in time I'd ask him why he didn't mention Doctor Johnson, to which I bet you he'd reply "Oh you needed him later in life"
3. Seneca 4. Epictetus 5. Marcus Aurelius -- the 3 great Roman Stoics in the best editions out there for anglophones, plus some supplementary books, and with all 12 supplements in video format as well.
6. Homer -- I really need to saturate the senses with Homer, there's a number of translations and audiobooks that I have, familiarity here shall not breed contempt, but a deeper appreciation of the Western Canon.
7. Rainer Maria Rilke -- if you recall a few months ago, maybe a whole year or so I collected a whole bunch of this poet, there is much to appreciate and savor here in his Letters no less than his Poetry.
8. Clarice Lispector -- No one wrote like Clarice, I have all or at least most of her stuff, mostly short novels of a high experimentation, and some non-fiction. Plus a biography I have in physical format.
9. Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy -- a text that Samuel Johnson liked to get up early to read devotionally.
10. Montaigne's Essays -- a lifelong companion sort of book, 2 translations, 2 audiobooks, many hours of wise companionship.
11. Lao Tzu - Tao Teh Ching -- like Homer I'm blessed with numerous translations.
12. Petrarch -- the 1st modern, ushering in the Renaissance is my choice to round out this group, I spent quite a bit 2 or so years ago on his Letters, there's 5 or so volumes, and his Poetry, plus some other things. Adjacent readings here would be Dante and Boccaccio.
This group represents a little ideal university of material to pore over with my eyes, on top of the audiobook listening which will be done one at a time (+ Homer) with Boswell's Life of Johnson being the inaugural one, i'm very pleased with this turn of events, with a diamond prism like effulgence of reading material, to cleanse the mind from the desultory nature of 2026 onwards.
Making 100
13. Cicero -- his Letters to Atticus has to be a part of things. Slowly will be adding up to 100 so as to maximalize what I shall psychologically consider the end times not in a prophetic manner, but how it all seems in an entirely secular way.
3. Seneca 4. Epictetus 5. Marcus Aurelius -- the 3 great Roman Stoics in the best editions out there for anglophones, plus some supplementary books, and with all 12 supplements in video format as well.
6. Homer -- I really need to saturate the senses with Homer, there's a number of translations and audiobooks that I have, familiarity here shall not breed contempt, but a deeper appreciation of the Western Canon.
7. Rainer Maria Rilke -- if you recall a few months ago, maybe a whole year or so I collected a whole bunch of this poet, there is much to appreciate and savor here in his Letters no less than his Poetry.
8. Clarice Lispector -- No one wrote like Clarice, I have all or at least most of her stuff, mostly short novels of a high experimentation, and some non-fiction. Plus a biography I have in physical format.
9. Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy -- a text that Samuel Johnson liked to get up early to read devotionally.
10. Montaigne's Essays -- a lifelong companion sort of book, 2 translations, 2 audiobooks, many hours of wise companionship.
11. Lao Tzu - Tao Teh Ching -- like Homer I'm blessed with numerous translations.
12. Petrarch -- the 1st modern, ushering in the Renaissance is my choice to round out this group, I spent quite a bit 2 or so years ago on his Letters, there's 5 or so volumes, and his Poetry, plus some other things. Adjacent readings here would be Dante and Boccaccio.
This group represents a little ideal university of material to pore over with my eyes, on top of the audiobook listening which will be done one at a time (+ Homer) with Boswell's Life of Johnson being the inaugural one, i'm very pleased with this turn of events, with a diamond prism like effulgence of reading material, to cleanse the mind from the desultory nature of 2026 onwards.
Making 100
13. Cicero -- his Letters to Atticus has to be a part of things. Slowly will be adding up to 100 so as to maximalize what I shall psychologically consider the end times not in a prophetic manner, but how it all seems in an entirely secular way.
46-50, M
