Author Topic: Born to Fear: Interviews with Thomas Ligotti  (Read 12915 times)

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Re: Born to Fear: Interviews with Thomas Ligotti
« on: March 15, 2020, 01:59:02 pm »
I have been reading about how Nietzsche considered himself a pessimist and not an optimist, only he believed that his pessimism was the genuine pessimism.He had an indifferent health almost all of his life and the places he lived in were generally cold.
Thankfully,my town is not cold.Cold really drives me insane.
Very few people bought his books while he was alive.A teacher with no students.He said Schopenhauer went wrong when he endorsed conventional morality.

I can see now where he started to differ from Schopenhauer.
This woman he was apparently  in love with,spurned him.
She must have thought -what a loser,no patrimony, no prospects.If he had not resigned from his professorship, it might have been different..but as things stood he was certainly not a good catch..unlike Schopenhauer,who could have had any woman he took a fancy to.
What would Schopenhauer say to Nietzsche,perhaps, nothing.Perhaps he would just give him a knowing smile and shake hands with him.

Today I spent almost the entire day locked in my room.
Nietzsche's life was closer to a typical tragedy.But Schopenhauer's no less infused with suffering.

I cannot help but imagine that both of them,in their loneliest loneliness, must have wept a great deal.
La Tristesse Durera Toujours                                  (The Sadness Lasts Forever ...)
-van Gogh.