tbqh i think of /lit/ exclusively as a place to pirate books and get best-of lists, reading the comments...? brave man
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Replying to @TSEliotRodger
ok, tell me he reads German at least. Ffs tell me he reads German
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @TSEliotRodger
honestly allan bloom on literature > harold bloom
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Replying to @Peter_OTool @TSEliotRodger
HB's list is good, tho. AB had more effect than I'd like to admit on me; haven't read him in a long time (shame)
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @TSEliotRodger
I think he had something of a female brain and understood personalities better than arguments.
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he was especially good with the philosophers of personality - rousseau, nietzsche
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Replying to @Peter_OTool @TSEliotRodger
It's hard to say; also odd that he put so much of his life's work into (controversial) translations vs essays
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I sort of see what u mean about personalities vs. arguments, but his essay on Republic is v v intricately argued
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Even if he falls into the sin of seeing character more than logic, he's head & shoulders above 'kwa-scholar avg
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