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I feel I have been neglectful in my duty of expounding upon /sig/ topics so tonight I intend to rectify my failings and offer some further thoughts. For tonight my brothers, we shall take a slight breather from the heavier duty topics and move onto what one could term a "comfy" topic, that of literature and your cultural inheritance within it. Many are already familiar with the work of Spengler, perhaps even E. Micheal Jones (although come now, while some of his work holds merit, his inability to conflate race with clear ethnic propensities does get tiresome) or even pieces such as the raw power of My Struggle or nobility of Tomorrow We Live or the ideals within the works of Hegel, these are all fine texts but for this night it is wish to bring you home. To gift you back what was taken. Ah, literature. You know, a movie can attempt to produce a facsimile of the imagination with all the grand special effects, unending budget and semetic subversions as it wishes but little is comparable to the vistas a good piece of literature can present. It can deliver you from the mundane and degenerate into a beautiful if brief reprieve from the modern world. The greatest of these escapes can be found not within modern literature but within the folklore and histories of old, written by men once passionate of their adulation and wonder at the stories they recorded. It is with this in mind I have begun working on a selection of suggested texts to bring you, my brothers, closer to your homelands where ever you may be. So let us begin. As a rule of thumb each region/peoples will have a listing of two suggested books, these I have chosen based on my owning of the physical books and completion of them. There are many more I could suggest but without ownership and the reading of them first I would be remiss to list them in case of making a poor suggestion. One suggestion will be a fairly accessible book based around pure enjoyment of ones own culture, the other will be more scholarly and niche but a worthy addition. Greek; Ah, so let us begin fairly early. Now while most modern men will only share a partial lineage if any at all to ancient Greeks, they do make for an interesting precursor to look at regarding ancient tales. One of the finest collection of stories regarding them would be the Herodotus Histories. Now do not be put off by it's grand and seemingly opaque title, a good translation of this book (seek a early to mid century release) is actually quite easy to read and enjoyable to boot. It tells many a tale of ancient Greece and paints a fairly good picture of the times. A good piece but one I would consider ancillary to the more focused folklore of the specific tales of our peoples (unless of course one is Greek in which case, well, most certainly read and treasure). Now Greek myths and legends are widely recorded and choosing a single book on the subject is... troublesome. One of my personal favorites is the Aeneid however it is most certainly one of the toughest books to finish which can deprive one of enjoyment. The language can be prosaic, it's very dense and it can go into somewhat exhaustive detail on mundane things once in a while. If your the scholarly sort, then this is a must have. If your seeking pleasure, well maybe just go for a early 20th century text covering the myths at large, there's a great many to choose from that are less, shall we say, arduous. I really do have a love hate relationship to this book, I really do.