Anonymous
6/24/2025, 12:28:14 AM No.24491071
This guy is retarded (PBUH)
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 2:34:54 AM No.24491338
>>24491071 (OP)
As interesting as his ideas are, in the process of reading him I have found his actual prose rather meandering, indirect and lacking in artfulness such that I have lost the spark of intrigue which would encourage my continuing with his works. I qualify that I am reading in translation but I believe the issues must be present to some degree in the original.
As interesting as his ideas are, in the process of reading him I have found his actual prose rather meandering, indirect and lacking in artfulness such that I have lost the spark of intrigue which would encourage my continuing with his works. I qualify that I am reading in translation but I believe the issues must be present to some degree in the original.
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 4:36:12 AM No.24491562
Then why do we share his pain? Why do we rage with him? Why do we set fires in the night and search the woods for his fallen stars?
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 7:51:19 AM No.24491938
>>24491338
Guenon wasn't writing for the sake of pleasant prose in the slightest, he viewed himself as a pure expositor of metaphysics. He was also extremely autistic about laying out all the parameters of the language and word choices he was using, both to ensure he was already controlling the field of argument, and to ensure that there was as little chance as possible for "modern misconceptions" to lead to him being misunderstood. I still like him quite a bit, but he is the absolute king of run on sentences and tends to rehash shit he's already gone over a lot. You might prefer Coomarawamy (comfier, less of a stick up his ass, my personal fav) or Evola (much more impassioned in his writing), both of them do better in regards to actually being fun to read, RG is very dry
Guenon wasn't writing for the sake of pleasant prose in the slightest, he viewed himself as a pure expositor of metaphysics. He was also extremely autistic about laying out all the parameters of the language and word choices he was using, both to ensure he was already controlling the field of argument, and to ensure that there was as little chance as possible for "modern misconceptions" to lead to him being misunderstood. I still like him quite a bit, but he is the absolute king of run on sentences and tends to rehash shit he's already gone over a lot. You might prefer Coomarawamy (comfier, less of a stick up his ass, my personal fav) or Evola (much more impassioned in his writing), both of them do better in regards to actually being fun to read, RG is very dry
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 7:56:47 AM No.24491953
>>24491071 (OP)
pipe down hylic
pipe down hylic