/lit/ - Literature

>start with the Greeks
I hate this meme, this would take a lifetime to actually do. What can you read instead to summarize the essential Greek contributions to the cannon?

>>20107020
> I went to /r/datingstrategy
Go back.

>>20107045
Based. The Bible is not nearly as far removed from Buddhism and other Oriental modes of enlightenement as people claim, all of them are the accumulations of human wisdom across thousands of years and as humans are similar so is this wisdom.

>>20107057
>brain immediately goes to interracial
>literally no-one else mentioned anything about it
I'd say something disparaging but what can harm better than your own obsession?


I find it very interesting how the essence of wojaks and pepes is so interwoven with the quest for female validation, 'tfw no gf' and so forth. What could better encapsulate the fundamental futility of self improvement and spiritual sterility than this fixation on the daughters of Eve, who like their mother are divorced from god, from morality, and earthbound as they are transgress against the true path? The whole of it truly does remind me of eastern philosophy, that is you will never attain the thing you seek so long as you are in its thrall. I believe there's many such sentiments from India, China, and Japan. And what are trannies but a further descent into the hell of this demented thinking? The inability to reject the material, temptation, sin, flesh, whatever you want to call it, it haunts modern man as never before, and never before has many needed god or heaven or anything greater than himself that he might have a hope of overcoming his self.

>try to reread the Iliad for the first time in college
>can't settle on a single translation and autistic ally nitpick each one
why are the classics such suffering
Which would you guys choose, Fagles or Fitzgerald, or some other non meme answer (not Pope)? I narrowed it down to them since they actually started the epic off with the significant and right words.

>Rage-Goddess. sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles,
>murderous. doomed. that cost the Achaeans countless losses,
>hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls.
>great fighters' souls. but made their bodies carrion.
>feasts for the dogs and birds.
>and the will of Zeus was moving.toward its end.
>Begin. Muse, when the two first broke and clashed.
>Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.
vs
>Anger be now your song, immortal one,
>Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous,
>that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss
>and crowded brave souls into the undergloom,
>leaving so many dead men-carrion
>for dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done.
>Begin it when the two men first contending
>broke with one another--
>Agamemnon, Atreus' son, and Prince Akhilleus.

>>13176306
>change
>real
laughingZeno.tif

Anyone have the "something was missing, no discernible talent, haha this guy!" pasta? I can't seem to find it.

another god forsaken day dawns anew