Azaeroe

spenser

eliot bio

Das Nibelungenlied

pound

essays by eliot

yeats bio

baudelaire

want a bio of laforgue p bad

ishiguro

charlie & the chocolate factory

laforgue bio

bazdulj

 

budge bio

 

insel - loy

still reading gaudeamus but would like to read insel by loy next

 

here are some quotes -

 

 

The purpose of life is not happiness, but rather heroic accomplishment. Every soul encompasses potential heroism, I thought. But every soul flickers for a few adolescent years with heroic visions, before resigning itself to mediocre values, before submitting to the lives of others, shrivelling & finally perishing. Why should I not be a soul, which no matter what the sacrifice required, attained heroism? Who could know? Perhaps I would be victorious in my pursuit of heroism. But then the victory itself would no longer have any meaning, but only the tireless striving toward it.

 

works & days, p60

 

 

ethics should crystallise as a result of lived experience

 

niska, p76

 

 

One who struggles with all his might to make certain spiritual values that greatly transcend the common spirituality become tangible, flourish & spread. One who goes beyond the human. One who renouces the way others live, in order to live ascetically, like a saint, all because he has sworn to achieve those things he has set out to do.

 

hermitage, p91 

 

 

Why should I not […] master the asceticism of universal erudition? Of course, it is not possible to master everything; but it is possible to gather & assimilate the essence of human genius. I will require five, ten, fifty years. And then I will be able to say: I have recreated myself, through assiduous labour, toiling in obscurity; I have transcended my species, because in my soul & mind are gathered together all the fruits of human labour; from whose seeds will grow forests, fields of crops, gardens.

 

mysteries, p117

 

 

no one finds salvation but the insane

 

nemesis, p148

planning on reading bazdulj

 

meanwhile reading gaudeamus

 

 

Some books I'll be reading in the coming week or two -

 

Briefe an einen jungen Dichter - Herr Rainer Maria Rilke

Some book on Jurisprudence

Felix Krull - Herr Thomas Mann

David Copperfield - Mister Charles Dickens

Dictung & Wahrheit - Herr Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Der Nomos der Erde im Völkerrecht des Jus Publicum Europaeum - Herr Carl Schmitt

 

Other authors I may read over the month -

 

Sehic

Bazdulj

Parvulescu

Sarotar

Flisar

Krecic

Thales

Thucydides

Sappho

Nonnos

Rhodius

herodotus

want to read cendrars but it ain't here