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>>10847692
They were not nice people. They helped put their society into the ditch we find ourselves in.

You want to read somebody worthy of mention, try Hunter S Thompson.

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Why yes. Why did you ask?

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LOLnope.

>> No.8748900 [View]

Some coworkers and I once went out for Japanese food and decided to compose our death haikus -- to the hilarity of the staff. Mine was:

Fuck. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!
I piss on your ancestors!
In next life, REVENGE!

>> No.8748889 [View]

>>8748879
This. Start with the Memorable Sayings of Socrates.

PS: I think she's prettier *before* the makeover.

>> No.6991460 [View]

>>6991249
Anything by G.K. Chesterton.

>> No.6280152 [View]

>>6280144
This is all true.

And yet philosophy is necessary for Man to recognize and deal with himself. Don't confuse 'philosophy' with 'sophistry.' They have the same root word. The ends and the fruit, particularly in our postmodern age, are utterly at odds with each other. Philosophy is not existential flights of cathartic fancy. It is empirical.

Go read some Socrates. You'll feel better.

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>>6279798
>Cretans and Carians of Miletus shared the same Poetic metre
Where might a non-studentfag learn more?

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>>6279655
>The Iliad and Odyssey weren't history
Doh hoh ho. Tell it to this guy. Better yet, tell it to the crew that unearthed the Mycenaean graves a few years ago at the edge of the silted-up harbor right outside of Hisarlik.

>> No.6279652 [View]

A 22,000 word novella that -- you learn at the end, what a tweest, if you hadn't picked up on it before -- sets the stage for a late Neolothic/Early Bronze Age retelling of the Arthurian mythos. It's all very Robert E Howard-ish.

>> No.6279593 [View]

>>6279526
/gets historygeek dander up

Homer was the inheritor of an authentic oral tradition based on historical events. Virgil was a bestselling author. It's the difference between Shakespeare's Henry V and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

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>>6279561
Of course he did. But that also doesn't fit his definition of Gonzo journalism -- which was, IIRC, serving as a sort of lens for the viewer that bypassed the medulla.

>> No.6279569 [View]

>>6279543
Here. This is for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-uQWNd540I

>> No.6279531 [View]

>>6279464
Why does having a pool of well-educated end users somehow tarnish the enterprise....? Most people that critique religions haven't actually read the user's guides. They just glean what they want off Wikipedia.

>> No.6279520 [View]

>>6279468
>>6279481
No. It'd take too long. TL;DR: it fits into the category of 'people who dig this shit went looking for it to fill needs they had to begin with.' It's pure Gonzo journalism, but it ain't literature.

>> No.6279508 [View]

>>6279485
Anything written before 1970.

>> No.6279470 [View]

>>6279404
It's not history. It's not even psuedo history. Virgil wasn't drawing on oral tradition plus sources now perhaps lost to us; he was pulling it out of his ass. It's an Iron Age version of GoT; it's science fiction, it ISN'T REAL.

I'm not saying it's not a well crafted piece of entertainment, but you're comparing apples and Buicks.

>> No.6279451 [View]

>>6279430
>earworms
wat

>can't stay focused
B vitamins will help with that.

>> No.6279442 [View]

>>6279436
>Is he right?
That was my initial reaction in high school, yeah. Good wordsmithing? Yes, in places. Writing? Not really. Hipster bullshit half a century old is still hipster bullshit.

....what link?

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House of Leaves. Think of it as your own personal Twilight Zone episode disguised as a puzzle box disguised as a book.

>> No.6279411 [View]

>>6279073
Anything by Douglas Adams.

>> No.6279372 [View]

>>6279358
>neish like from the last 5 ears
You want something good and not too long from the last .01% of the literary record. As though 'newish' made it better somehow. I mean shit, that even cancels out Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas.

Can't help ya bub. Sorry.

>> No.6279280 [View]

>>6277525
>People have made millions selling HP fanfiction.
How the fuck did they get away with that?

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>>6279218
Woah. Greekhivemind.

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