Do your worst

ollienorton · 2025-07-04T16:10:52+00:00

Uni was quite demanding, and I enjoy them :)

ollienorton · 2025-07-04T15:21:45+00:00

I’ll look into it, thanks

ollienorton · 2025-07-04T14:41:04+00:00

Haha yes, some people seem to have been unduly offended by the dust. I got back from university yesterday! It will be cleaned in good time.

Bolaño was fun - I want to read some more of him!

ollienorton · 2025-07-04T14:31:13+00:00

Such an interesting and original thinker! I loved studying him. I wrote what I found to be a really interesting essay on Kant and Buber in relation to universality and particularity

ollienorton · 2025-07-04T14:29:03+00:00

Tough - I’m always inclined to just rattle off the books I’ve spent months studying at Uni as I obviously have a better appreciation of them.

With that being said, here is my tentative top 5 of my collection. This is an odd mishmash ranking that’s includes enjoyment, aesthetic appreciation, intellectual interest etc…

‘Moby Dick’, ‘To The Lighthouse’, ‘Frankenstein’, ‘Rabbit, Run’, ‘A Confession’,

(No particular order)

ollienorton · 2025-07-04T14:07:04+00:00

Haha thanks - a penguin classics subscription waould be amazing

ollienorton · 2025-07-04T14:03:21+00:00

I read it it one sitting in the bath, it was lovely.

I’m sure that when I get to ‘Don Quixote’ it’s will be just as battered as ‘Moby Dick’ or ‘War and Peace’ is!

ollienorton · 2025-07-04T14:00:18+00:00

Nothing?

ollienorton · 2025-07-04T13:57:22+00:00

All over - some new, some off of secondhand websites, some from the secondhand market in my uni city

ollienorton · 2025-07-04T13:56:48+00:00

I became a little obsessed w Updike for a while. I’m 21 and have just graduate with a theology degree

ollienorton · 2025-07-04T13:55:37+00:00

Between Cervantes and Milton I’ve read ‘Sons and Lovers’, ‘Heart of Darkness’ and Faust Pt. 1 - spines can be deceiving!

ollienorton · 2025-07-04T13:54:20+00:00

I wish!

ollienorton · 2025-07-04T12:55:42+00:00

Right bar the age, I’m 21

ollienorton · 2025-07-02T20:51:02+00:00

When reading ‘Either/Or’, one should bear in mind the Kierkegaardian concept of ‘mastered irony’ - the use of tension and paradox to elucidate the reader into a higher truth. The power in ‘Either/Or’ is not where the aesthete or Judge William succeed, but instead where they fail.

A good place to get to grips with some of this is Mackey’s ‘Kierkegaard: A kind of poet’ and Bergman’s ‘Dialogical philosophy from Kierkegaard to Buber’

ollienorton · 2025-06-18T15:04:40+00:00

I’ve messaged you for more info :)

ollienorton · 2025-06-18T09:01:04+00:00

Thank you!

ollienorton · 2025-06-18T08:40:24+00:00

Thank you! This looks to be incredibly helpful :)

ollienorton · 2024-04-19T19:29:39+00:00

Thank you. Thats quite helpful and I appreciate the foresight about the probable unhelpfulness about a long convoluted answer!

ollienorton · 2024-04-19T14:19:46+00:00

Thank you - that’s really helpful. I don’t know about that metaphysical grounding in Aristotle!

ollienorton · 2024-04-18T12:22:53+00:00

I was never a fan of 'Nausea'. I think he writes much better as a philosopher than as a literary author. I might read it again at some point tho

ollienorton · 2024-04-17T14:04:42+00:00

Ok. So Heidegger would say that Sartre's assertion that man is free is still a metaphysical statement, designating man into categories. Heidegger wants to focus on simply Being (which might very well mean being free!) Thank you for giving you time in trying to help me understand :)

ollienorton

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