♔LitRex♔

Note: I tend to spend long periods deeply focused on my studies. Because of this, I really savor my downtime—usually in nature or cooking—so please don’t take it personally if I’m slow to respond.

As Voltaire puts it:

"Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien" The best/better is the enemy of the good.

So, do please feel free to join for only one book or the whole list. I'm sure I'll be skim reading a lot myself to practice for graduate school. Just know that it's more about the community and sharing of ideas consistently than anything.

This club is a space to practice reading, share resources, and connect with curious minds. Our goal is to explore ideas, spark curiosity, and support each other’s growth.

We’ll have weekly check-ins and monthly discussions as able. Let’s be patient, kind, and enjoy the journey together.

Link to other groups and their discords below.

I'm working on a doc that will include all of the questions we'll explore for each book during our discussions so anyone can chat in the discord server for each book as they'd like.

Regarding the discord server, fair warning, I am not someone online much so, it will be unmonitored. Be appropriate and respectful. Anyone who shows bad character will be removed. Same thing goes for here.

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We take our vow as keepers of the hidden light,

to be the white gleam within the black shell of night.

From the cosmic egg of Being, we hatch anew —

the dawn within the dark, forever gleaming, morning dew.

All in All, Being and Becoming;

in the Void — the potential of All — we find the All from Nothing.

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I facilitate discussion groups exploring the intersections of philosophy, literature, and symbolism.

"♔LitRex♔" involves reading and interpreting classical and modern thinkers—from Greek tragedy to Nietzsche, Jung, Hesse, and Dostoyevsky—through themes of existentialism, individuation, myth, and Apollonian vs. Dionysian tension.

"Scroll & Quill Society: Becoming ἀρετή" a literature and philosophy based circle dedicated to studying Ancient Greek, German, and French texts in both original languages and translation

"The Cards of Life (Les Cartes de la Vie)" is a group tracing the history of tarot and cartomancy as symbolic systems.

Join one of my book clubs:

• Language Club—Ancient Greek, German, French: Scroll & Quill Society: Becoming ἀρετή | Discord

• Philosophy, Literature & Analysis :♔LitRex♔ | Discord

• History & Tarot/Cartomancy: The Cards of Life (Les Cartes de la Vie) | Discord

Alphabetical reading list — "♔LitRex♔"

• Adamson, Peter S. — A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: Medieval Philosophy

• Adamson, Peter S. — A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds

• Bakhtin, Mikhail — Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics

• Bakhtin, Mikhail — Rabelais and His World

• Burrows, David J. — Myths and Motifs in Literature

• Camus, Albert — The Plague

• Campbell, Joseph — The Power of Myth

• Dostoyevsky, Fyodor — Notes from Underground

• Dostoyevsky, Fyodor — The Brothers Karamazov

• Euripides — Bacchae

• Hamilton, Edith — The Greek Way

• Hesse, Hermann — Demian

• Hesse, Hermann — Narcissus and Goldmund

• Hesse, Hermann — Steppenwolf

• Hobart, Michael E. — The Great Rift: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide

• Jenkyns, Richard — Classical Literature

• Jung, Carl Gustav — Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

• Jung, Carl Gustav — Aion

• Nicolson, Adam — Why Homer Matters

• Nietzsche, Friedrich — Beyond Good and Evil

• Nietzsche, Friedrich — The Birth of Tragedy

• Nietzsche, Friedrich — Thus Spoke Zarathustra

• Plato — Phaedo

• Plato — Protagoras and Meno

• Plato — Symposium

• Plato — Republic

• Rilke, Rainer Maria — Letters to a Young Poet

• Rilke, Rainer Maria — Duino elegies and The sonnets to Orpheus