By Canon i mean the books, authors or sources which mean the most to you. I often think of William Blake saying something about making your own bible. And \*big surprise\* i thence want to share my own. It is currently however undergoing a seismic event called Shakespeare, yes the Bard for me was fully embraced by me only a few weeks ago, and for me he is a window or portal to truly appreciating all fine literature. Some of my Canon as it is now is informed from this recent event, but most made their deep impression earlier. Nothing will be repeated after mentioned but may apply again in other sections. These are simply just what lives close to my heart, not the organ pumping my blood, but the innermost essence of who i am, and idealize and am endlessly interested in.
Thought
Nietzsche, Cioran, Kierkegaard, Shestov, Camus, Krishnamurti, The French Moralists, select Greeks and Romans, select religious texts and authors & speakers
Prose
Proust, Walser, Lispector, Woolf, Musil, Pessoa, Dostoevsky
Poetry
Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lautreamont, Holderlin, Dickinson, Plath, Sexton
Plays
Shakespeare, O’Neill, Ibsen, Strindberg, Williams
Christianity
Early Church Fathers, Calvin, Owen, Edwards, Spurgeon, Sproul, Beeke
Other religions & beliefs
Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Gnosticism, Occultism
Special studies
Feminism
Mary Daly, Andrea Dworkin
History
Cults, True Crime, disturbing literature
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by Zealousideal-Tip8519