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wolfe wasn't a fascist, and wrote "i have a thing to tell you" about the plight of jews in germany, which he decried before the american government itself did so. i think it is going to be difficult for you to tackle your project of reading fascists authors with a critical eye if your standards for fascism is "i overheard that somebody used the word about them." wolfe was instead a huge racist, please get it right.
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i shelve my books according to mazlow's hierarchy of needs. so medical textbooks and cookbooks on the bottom shelf, then self defense manuals, then pornography, and continuing on in this fashion until self-actualization at the top shelf, which is currently empty.
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Books should be organized so that the ones that make you appear most interesting to your guests are eye level
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Ishiguro owns, I read Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go back in high school and those were probably the best books I had read at the time. they're on my list for a reread because I haven't read them in a long time (just about six years now)
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TheManFromFOXHOUND posted:Yes. I mean I expect to have a say in it, but I also expect to be influenced in ways I don't expect, and are bad. This is a very Platonic/Hobbesian of you. Would you ban Poetry from the City? How do you reason 'bad' texts will influence you in covert ways?
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High school Six years ago *thatshittymspainthmmmface*
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Books should be organized so that the ones that make you appear most interesting to your guests are eye level 
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My books are of course organised on a Dantean schema, with separate inferno, purgatorio, and paradiso bookshelves, organised according to the book's major sins and virtues.
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Tree Goat posted:wolfe wasn't a fascist, and wrote "i have a thing to tell you" about the plight of jews in germany, which he decried before the american government itself did so. i think it is going to be difficult for you to tackle your project of reading fascists authors with a critical eye if your standards for fascism is "i overheard that somebody used the word about them." David Markson, spreading poo poo once more Reader's Block posted:Balzac wrote eighty-five novels in twenty years.
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J_RBG posted:My books are of course organised on a Dantean schema, with separate inferno, purgatorio, and paradiso bookshelves, organised according to the book's major sins and virtues. Where is dante
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This is violence
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Where is dante In the Inferno for blasphemy, obviously.
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whatevz fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Apr 25, 2022 |
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Tree Goat posted:i shelve my books according to mazlow's hierarchy of needs. so medical textbooks and cookbooks on the bottom shelf, then self defense manuals, then pornography, and continuing on in this fashion until self-actualization at the top shelf, which is currently empty. Same but I only have pornography so it’s easy. The ones that didn’t have dicks in them before have dicks in them now.
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TheManFromFOXHOUND posted:Not to call you out or anything, but it's obvious that everyone in this thread skirts around this issue when someone brings it up. I've always felt weird when someone recommends Mishima, Pound, and now I guess Wolfe. When I read literature I expect the work to influence me in some way, so I'm not too excited to read fascist authors without an extremely critical eye. I'm pretty sure everyone acts so blasé around this issue because it's so difficult and honestly probably bigger than a thread about books on a dying, gay forum. I love Mishima and Pound, I don't think their art even intrinsically has anything to do with fascism. Not even Runaway Horses.
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u know who else was worried about intellectual contagions....
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TheManFromFOXHOUND posted:Yes. I mean I expect to have a say in it, but I also expect to be influenced in ways I don't expect, and are bad. Do you think you're going to suddenly become a fascist or something? Or like reading """fascist literature""" will awaken your nascent fascist that has been hidden inside you this whole time? It seems to me one of the most important reasons to read a book is to have it challenge your view on the world and make you feel uncomfortable about yourself. I mean, would you not read Henry Miller because you might become a misogynist or something?
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Fascist writers who are explicitly fascist like Mishima are fine Its the ones who you only find out are fascist by reading their bios you gotta worry about looking at you Pound
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My favorite thing I read in the Mishima biography by Henry Scott Stokes was that Mishima had a weird rear end laugh like "hyuk hyuk hyuk".
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It was pretty rad when I found out that a Nobel prize winner for literature later wrote a eulogy for Hitler calling him a "warrior of mankind" and "a prophet of the gospel of justice for all nations"
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thehoodie posted:It seems to me one of the most important reasons to read a book is to have it challenge your view on the world and make you feel uncomfortable about yourself. Just want to point out that I agree with this, and have already mentioned that I plan on reading Mishima this year. thehoodie posted:Do you think you're going to suddenly become a fascist or something? Or like reading """fascist literature""" will awaken your nascent fascist that has been hidden inside you this whole time? I don't think that's how people become fascists at all. I think people become fascists by the normalization of fascist rhetoric and by viewing it as a viable and coherent political ideology. Anyway here's Eco's Ur-fascism because I'm done talking about this for now. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/
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Douk Douk posted:It was pretty rad when I found out that a Nobel prize winner for literature later wrote a eulogy for Hitler calling him a "warrior of mankind" and "a prophet of the gospel of justice for all nations" Knut Hamsun by that point was a Trump who could write Just an old pissed off conservative who got the majority of his news from rightwing papers Not to excuse him by any means
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i have a stupid system that only makes sense to me. i organize my literature section by author's last name. other sections, like art or medieval literature or science textbooks, i organize by descending height because the author's last name doesn't matter/isn't known. or my history section, which is organized by region and then by time period.Douk Douk posted:It was pretty rad when I found out that a Nobel prize winner for literature later wrote a eulogy for Hitler calling him a "warrior of mankind" and "a prophet of the gospel of justice for all nations" wheres the lie tho
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quit being a loving child and read some fascist literature
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Fascist writers who are explicitly fascist like Mishima are fine lol if you have to read a bio to realize that the guy who wrote "Usura" and the cantos singing Mussolini's praises is a fash.
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at the date posted:lol if you have to read a bio to realize that the guy who wrote "Usura" and the cantos singing Mussolini's praises is a fash. Jokes on you I don't read poetry nerd
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mel please dont change your av it gives me anxiety
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chernobyl kinsman posted:mel please dont change your av it gives me anxiety I don't Others do 
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I organize my books primarily based on whether I've read them or not. The unread books get their own shelf and are organized by page count, so that I can just take the shortest one if I don't have anything better to read. The read books I don't really have a system for, since they vary wildly in dimensions and I have to take that into account. If I was made of money I'd just get ebooks versions of them and sell off the ones I can replace that way. It'd free up a lot of space.
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shelfs are for all the religious books my dad gives me and any other books that will never be read because holding a ream of paper in front of my eyes is so last decade
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I organize my books by periodically trying to convince my wife, who has an actual master's degree in librarian, to organize the books. It makes her laugh, so that's a win.
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Solitair posted:I organize my books primarily based on whether I've read them or not. The unread books get their own shelf and are organized by page count, so that I can just take the shortest one if I don't have anything better to read. The read books I don't really have a system for, since they vary wildly in dimensions and I have to take that into account. I actually do something similar. Unread books go on the big shelf, read books go on other shelves or to the side (or get boxed up). Unread books are shelved based on size and the ones I'm interested in reading sooner go to the top of the stacks so I can reach them easier. Then I have a shelf for books on art, film, literary criticisms and reference/grammar books. Also unorganized. I actually prefer to organize them by author's last name, but it's just not practical until I get more shelves. There should be a thread for this.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:a master's degree in librarian Apparently there's more to it than just stamping decimal numbers onto book spines? Like, with the computer.
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I just dump them on my shelf without much thought.
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Shibawanko posted:I just dump them on my shelf without much thought. This except without the shelf
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Apparently there's more to it than just stamping decimal numbers onto book spines? Like, with the computer. I was mocking your grammar not your wife's credentials It's library science! My dad has a master's degree in it too Grew up with an academic library system at my fingertips. Wrote my fifth grade book report with sources from worldcat
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Friend of mine with that degree always called himself a Libraryman. Also started working IT instead because, at the low level at a university, it's mostly the same work but libraryman gets no money.
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whatevz fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Apr 25, 2022 |
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