>/lit/ tricked me into reading Freemason propagandaI feel violated
>>24945034wait until you realize that the grand majority of the great modern literary works of the western sphere trace share very strong parallels with masonic ideals
>>24945034>>24945043McLuhan's letter to Ezra Pound lol
>>24945056It's a cyclical thing with these secret society conspiracy things. You believe in them, then you dismiss them as silly, then you start to be skeptical again, then you think they can't have much power, then you read some more and realize it can't all be coincidental, and so on. I'll never forget Nixon's leaked rant about the Bohemian Grove and shit like that where he complained about their literal faggotry lol. Must be tiresome after a while.The French are big into that stuff as well, or used to be.
>>24945034Filtered. Freemasonry is only one of the many, many perspectives/guises the book takes. Catholic, Muslim, kabbalistic, esoteric, mercantile, platonic, empiricism, scholarly, historic, romantic. And yes, masonic. They're all examined and ultimately rejected for their inability to contain the whole Truth in them, further compounded by the story being twice, thrice and more removed from the original point of view (a manuscript found decades after the events). And through a happy little accident this uncertainty is even further compounded by there being no definitive version of the book. There's 1804, 1810 and the Polish translator fanfiction, and all of them have a different structure.It's a book of doubt, of philosophical and scientific scepticism, and one that laments the ability for humans to achieve Truth no matter how many systems of knowledge one adopts.t. Read the 1810 version, where IIRC the Velasquez System is introduced, so I might be biased in terms of my interpretation.
>>24945056>being both a fascist and a FreemasonClassic Pound
>>24945056CS Lewis?!
>>24945244great post, you sum up what I love about the book
>>24945244OK, now what's the deep and literary reason why every single character gets into a threesome?
