Anyone else read The White Goddess? How well founded are Graves's arguments? I'm not a big history buff, and only about half way through the book. I'm finding it fascinating, but a lot of what he says seems to be fairly tenuous connections between different myths. In one sections he is trying to decipher a riddle that he imagines to be in a poem by Gwion/Taliesin and makes some pretty wild leaps it seems to me. Is Graves generally respected or is he kind of an eccentric?
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Anonymous06/11/26(Thu)03:13:45
Nobody takes him seriously, and that’s in a field that already tolerates more out there takes than usual like Girard or Durkheim. His historical claims have been completely trashed by archeologists and linguists and he’s essentially just schizoposting to transpose his own myth onto history.
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Anonymous06/11/26(Thu)03:29:03
>>25334250(OP) Anon told me many years ago that if I read this wiccan feminists will try to cut off my penis. So couldn't possibly risk it.
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Anonymous06/11/26(Thu)03:42:06
when i was looking for poetry craft books i found this book, but it was just him talking about how women are superior or some shit. i feel like if graves where alive in modern times he would def be a tranny
also it was all made up
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Anonymous06/11/26(Thu)03:59:57
>>25334448 >schizoposting This exact idea passed through my mind while reading it lol
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Anonymous06/11/26(Thu)15:12:17
>>25334448 >His historical claims have been completely trashed by archeologists and linguists and he’s essentially just schizoposting to transpose his own myth onto history. Sounds a lot like Nietzsche.
>>25334448 >completely trashed by archeologists and linguists As a poet he took guesses and believed like any religious person would. What book(s) make these corrections (trash)?
In contrast we have people like Graham Hancock and no matter how much his ideas are proving to be true, there are establishment people who continue to make him out to be a kook.
>>25335183 >As long as I don't violate facts, I can make up a ton of shit in the empty spaces between them kek, well it is fun, I'll give him that, but pretenses at being a "truth" sayer are hilarious.
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Anonymous06/11/26(Thu)19:24:08
>>25335545 That’s not quite what the passage says. He’s drawing a distinction between fact and truth. Facts alone don’t constitute truth. Necessary but not sufficient. And RG wasn’t under any illusions, he knew he was only speaking to certain people.
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Anonymous06/11/26(Thu)19:51:22
>>25334250(OP) He’s too stupid to notice his love for the queen is bred into him, but he’s just smart enough to try and “unpack” it like everyone else can’t see what’s going on
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Anonymous06/11/26(Thu)20:03:00
>>25334250(OP) The White Goddess, along with The Golden Bough, are not literally true but it they are symbolically and spiritually true