Intellectual Family Tree (of sorts)

[aestel]

Recently I was playing around with a trial version of Mindjet's MindManager, which is billed as a help for "nonlinear thinking." Supposedly the novelist Richard Powers uses it to write his fiction. Several years ago I created a kind of flow chart or family tree of literary/intellectual connections in my personal history, so I decided as an easy

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[aestel]

Schopenhauer is difficult for me to place. I think I've read more *about* him than actually of his own work. I suppose I'm in general sympathy with his bleak outlook, his belief that humans are not very rational, and of his mystical view of music (such as I understand it). But I never went through a period of intensely reading his books and saying "wow" for the next week