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My new year's resolution is to read more, ideally to the tune of a minimum of 30 minutes a day. I'm going to use this thread to keep track of what I read on each day and for how long.
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I just finished chapter 3 of Mein Kampf. It's a long and detailed chapter that discusses various aspects of Austrian politics leading up to and through the time Hitler spent in Vienna. Hitler said this is when he dedicated the most time to developing his Weltanschauung (or worldview). A good portion of the chapter is dedicated to his analysis of two Austrian political movements, the Pan-German movement and the Christian Socialist movement.
The Pan-German movement was racialist in nature but alienated a lot of the more religious Germans, while the Christian Socialists were mostly a religious party that was more or less accepting of all foreign races (Slavs, Poles, Hungarians, etc.) but did nothing for the advancement of German-Austrians explicitly (either of these sound familiar lol?). Both parties never really caught on and eventually died out.
I didn't make a note of too many quotes because the chapter almost feels like a stream of consciousness, but here's one where he talks about his first experience observing the Austrian parliament:
"The intellectual level of the debate was quite low. Some times the debaters did not make themselves intelligible at all. Several of those present did not speak German but only their Slav vernaculars or dialects. Thus I had the opportunity of hearing with my own ears what I had been hitherto acquainted with only through reading the newspapers. A turbulent mass of people, all gesticulating and bawling against one another, with a pathetic old man shaking his bell and making frantic efforts to call the House to a sense of its dignity by friendly appeals, exhortations, and grave warnings. I could not refrain from laughing." -AH
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Didn't get a chance to ready yesterday (Thursday) but I did read chapter 2 of Mein Kampf today (Friday). This chapter detailed Hitler's time in Vienna and his experiences with the local workers and their relationships with the bourgeoisie and the social democrat party. He then goes into how these interactions exposed him to the JQ and his realizations that came from it. The quote below details the doubts he had at first, much of which I can personally relate to.
"As was always my habit with such experiences, I turned to books for help in removing my doubts. For the first time in my life I bought myself some anti-Semitic pamphlets for a few pence. But unfortunately they all began with the assumption that in principle the reader had at least a certain degree of information on the Jewish question or was even familiar with it. Moreover, the tone of most of these pamphlets was such that I became doubtful again, because the statements made were partly superficial and the proofs extraordinarily unscientific. For weeks, and indeed for months, I returned to my old way of thinking. The subject appeared so enormous and the accusations were so far-reaching that I was afraid of dealing with it unjustly and so I became again anxious and uncertain." -AH
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I haven't read since Friday but I did start studying Greek the past 3 days so that has to count for something right?
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More Heart of Europe today. Most of what I read was about the investiture controversy. Simply put, the current pope and King Henry IV had disagreements over the duties of the emperor. Henry tried to depose the pope so the pope declared Henry's subjects to be free from his rule. They both set up an anti-pope and an anti-king to oppose the other. Eventually Henry crossed the Alps to meet with the pope in northern Italy so that he could be reinstated and prevent rebellion by his subjects.
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Read part of the translator's introduction to the Odyssey yesterday. Today I decided to start Mein Kampf instead, however. I will probably finish it before I start the Odyssey proper. I've been putting off reading it for too long so no better time to start than now. I will post excerpts and quotes I find relevant or interesting as I read it, too. Here is an excerpt from chapter 1:
"To study history means to search for and discover the forces that are the causes of those results which appear before our eyes as historical events. The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential." -AH
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Read book 22 of the Iliad this morning but forgot to post.
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I finished the Iliad today (books 23 & 24). Don't have all of my thoughts together about it yet but I did enjoy it. Up next is the Odyssey.
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Read book 21 of the Iliad this morning
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Read some more of Heart of Europe for today. I thought this passage was interesting.
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Woke up early and read books 19 and 20 today.
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Started Heart of Europe. Most of what I read detailed the period between the fall of Rome and the coronation of Charlemagne. Here's some art from the book.
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Reading manga in bed tonight because I'm tired and I have class tomorrow morning :kms:
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Read books 17 and 18 of the Iliad today.
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Book 14 of da Iliad
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Haven't read anything except for small bits of manga for 3 days lol, I read books 15 and 16 of the Iliad today. Rip Patroclus.
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Book 13 of the Iliad for 1/2 (it's past midnight but it's still the 2nd because I haven't gone to sleep yet so it counts)
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Read the first 100 or so chapters of this, might read some more of the Iliad later
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Today I read Book 12 of the Iliad for 30 minutes.
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I've been slacking on the reading this week but today I read chapter 4 of Mein Kampf. Hitler mostly discusses foreign policy in this chapter, specifically the Triple Alliance and how useless it ended up being in practice. I would explain more but frankly I'm pretty tired lol. Today's quote:
"Nobody can doubt that this world will one day be the scene of dreadful struggles for existence on the part of mankind. In the end the instinct of self-preservation alone will triumph. Before its consuming fire this so-called humanitarianism, which connotes only a mixture of fatuous timidity and self-conceit, will melt away as under the March sunshine. Man has become great through perpetual struggle. In perpetual peace his greatness must decline." -AH
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Read some more of Heart of Europe today (Feb 1). It covered the relations between the popes and the emperors from the Staufers (Barbarossa, Frederick II) up to the end of the empire.
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Read some more of Heart of Europe today
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