#1 Rasselas by Samuel Johnson
Instead of waiting till an exhaustive and slightly detailed list of what I deem The Group, there shall appear before your beady eyes a new numbered series of the works themselves, not always with an audio version as here which enthused me so much that it is the reason why i'm posting this, I literally share everything I'm enthusiastic about, for let's be real, to keep doing it without genuine enthusiasm would then mean that you're a cold blooded psychopath.
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To pay for his mother's funeral Sam wrote this in a week. He had complicated relations with her I believe, i'm just learning all of this, and it requires processing. Processing this stuff is way more pleasing than many other things which would need processing. The story to me at this point of time seems like a mixture of Pilgrim's Progress, Candide and Siddhartha. Johnson's The Rambler is the other confirmed work of his I'm enjoying.
For him and his biographer James, I need time to even be able to type out all their stuff!! It's complicated why that is so for me, which would require professional analyzing.
Instead of going to such lengths as that I venture forth into the realm I already know there is infinite wealth, Literature. Johnson seems to me the epitome of the Literary person, but he was also a kind person who made a habit of giving away the little money he had at the moment to the poor, he was against Slavery too, which his biographer was a supporter of. These were the 1700's, a time I need to sample out the other big names of the time, like Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, and a slew of Poets like Milton, Pope and Blake.
Too often I enshrine the 1800's to the detriment of the previous century, I think that is why I seized on Sam and James as an exciting entry point, and they are fascinating for one thing more than any other -- Life Writing, which give the reader a palatable sense of what it must have been like then, in book form, it's like watching documentaries from then, it's like how Martin Luther's 1500's work The Bondage of the Will reads like a pulse pounding radio drama directed by Orson Welles.
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To pay for his mother's funeral Sam wrote this in a week. He had complicated relations with her I believe, i'm just learning all of this, and it requires processing. Processing this stuff is way more pleasing than many other things which would need processing. The story to me at this point of time seems like a mixture of Pilgrim's Progress, Candide and Siddhartha. Johnson's The Rambler is the other confirmed work of his I'm enjoying.
For him and his biographer James, I need time to even be able to type out all their stuff!! It's complicated why that is so for me, which would require professional analyzing.
Instead of going to such lengths as that I venture forth into the realm I already know there is infinite wealth, Literature. Johnson seems to me the epitome of the Literary person, but he was also a kind person who made a habit of giving away the little money he had at the moment to the poor, he was against Slavery too, which his biographer was a supporter of. These were the 1700's, a time I need to sample out the other big names of the time, like Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, and a slew of Poets like Milton, Pope and Blake.
Too often I enshrine the 1800's to the detriment of the previous century, I think that is why I seized on Sam and James as an exciting entry point, and they are fascinating for one thing more than any other -- Life Writing, which give the reader a palatable sense of what it must have been like then, in book form, it's like watching documentaries from then, it's like how Martin Luther's 1500's work The Bondage of the Will reads like a pulse pounding radio drama directed by Orson Welles.
46-50, M