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Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

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Beyond the stir and tumult of defeated dreams

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Hugh Selwyn Mauberley@Hughposting·
The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by H.L Mencken is now live on amazon The book is newly typeset with my additional notes, commentary, and a few corrections Please follow @bastard_books, where I will be tweeting more about upcoming books/publishing projects link below
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Masaki@jinzaburomasaki·
The meaning of "how one becomes what one is". From Book I of Human, All Too Human
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Hard to know what Aeschylus actually said in the text since the play doesn’t survive—believe this quote is a scholarly reconstruction from unattributed fragments iirc. Think Plato symposium slightly more reliable here since text survives in full. Same idea though
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Achilles, speaking to the ghost of Patroclus: μηρῶν τε τῶν σῶν ηὐσέβησ' ὁμιλίαν κλαίων "I honored your thighs by bewailing you." From the Mymidons of Aeschylus (fr. 136). (Aeschylus and the Athenians thought Achilles and Patroclus were lovers.)

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Virility Maxxed@VirilityMaxxed·
Two ancients believing they may have been lovers, is very different from the modern thought which is casting them as gay and using it simultaneously destroy the Greeks and provide a historical basis for modern LGBT theory. Even if I believed them to be lovers, I would never apply the modern word bisexual to them as it is completely different.
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Achilles and Patroclus conceived as erotic lovers is very old and goes back, as far as I know, to Aeschylus. Here is Phaedrus discussing in Plato's Symposium:
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The Warrior Philosopher@TWarPhilosopher

These two books were disastrous for humanity and study of the Ancients. Miller convinced leftists Achilles and Patroclus were gay lovers and Wilson translated the Iliad to implicitly hint at this. Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is the final straw to ruin Homer.

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Maybe you say Athenian intercrural perverts distorted homer, fine—that doesn’t mean feminists fabricated the erotic relationship in Song of Achilles in 2011
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Conception of Achilles Patroclus as a modern homosexual is something they made up in last few decades, the erotic relationship is not. It is not suggested by Homer but it is suggested in classical Greece.
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Point of this post btw not to defend books in the original quote tweet which are obviously bad. Point is I see two viral posts claiming Achilles Patroclus erotic relationship was made up by feminists in last few decades. I think if you try argue this you end up w egg on your face
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley@Hughposting

Achilles and Patroclus conceived as erotic lovers is very old and goes back, as far as I know, to Aeschylus. Here is Phaedrus discussing in Plato's Symposium:

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Still wrong to frame Achilles/Patroclus as modern homosexuals or maybe you can also argue this is Aeschylus'/ Plato pederastic distortion but I think important to mention that this idea of Achilles patroclus erotic relationship wasnt invented by feminists 5 years ago
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The entire dialogue is discussing topic of erotic love. Orpheus and Eurydice discussed just before Achilles/Patroclus. Also the language: uses Greek word ἐραστὴν / lover-- different from φίλος / friend. ἐραστὴν is same word we see in παιδεραστής / paiderastḗs (boy-lover)
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Oscar Wilde: “Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
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Arty the Art Historian@ArtyArtHistory·
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti on translation: “The work of the translator (and with all humility be it spoken) is one of some self-denial.”
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Herman Hesse, Childhood of the Magician: “Like all boys, I envied many callings …My greatest preference by far, however, would have been to be a magician. This was the deepest direction of my impulses, springing from a certain dissatisfaction with what people call ‘reality’”
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@Hughposting He isn't even the best at this specific niche either—at least Crumplar makes it funny
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This guy's entire journalism career is just parasitically reporting on a scene he claims to despise.
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Also interesting here is the slow castration of VICE--erstwhile "alt" magazine now primarily interested in scolding 20-somethings for transgressing various racio-sexual taboos
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Classical Mythology
Classical Mythology@ClassicalMyths·
"Hercules and the Hydra" (1922-25) by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925). Oil on canvas; 137 x 125 in. AN:25.647. Image: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley@Hughposting·
can actually see a digitized version of Nietzsche's copy of Emerson essays on the Herzogin Anna Amalia Library website which is what I worked from for this piece
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Emerson was big influence on Nietzsche--N calls him "the excellent Emerson," and "Emerson, the richest American." Also says in a letter to Overbeck, “I experience Emerson as a twin-soul ['Bruder-Seele'—'brother-soul']." Wrote about this in my first boobstack a while ago
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Bronze Age Pervert@bronzeagemantis

Nietzsche say: "I look only on Giacomo Leopardi, Prosper Merimee, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Walter Savage Landor the author of Imaginary Conversations, as worthy to be called masters of prose..." of the 19th C. Do you agree. Some frends think Emerson is a bad writer though.

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