/lit/ - Literature

>>22842041
>But for most people that’s too much effort.

I didn't feel like I started to get Shakespeare until I was 10 plays into my "read everything by Shakespeare" challenge.

After the 15th play his prose really starts to flow, if anything the footnotes for cultural references are a distraction. By the 20th play, I earnestly began to wish everyone still spoke Elizabethan English. Rare movies like "The Witch" became a real treat...thee's and thou's with verb-at-the-end word order just feel so comfy. According to my wife, I started talking like Gandalf from Lord of the Rings.

Of course I was also studying Latin while doing this. Tried reading Paradise Lost, and the prose was trivial compared to Shakespeare. You can train your brain to do anything I guess. But few normies are going to do this weird shit.

>t. pseud mid-wit insurance agent