/lit/ - Literature

I don’t want to go out with any thots, buts its getting hard to contain my impulses. Most of the girls I know whore themselves irl and on the internet, and the ones who don’t clearly just lack the looks/confidence for doing so. At the same time they craft a whole persona of depth and sensitivity, while seeing no problems on setting their lives into pursue of escapism and hedonism, praising pleasure as the greatest good. Am I the anomaly? Should I just go around fucking and partying like my peers? They already presume I do, to some extent, since I’m good looking and manage to keep a conversation going without sperging out. I’m getting tired of going against the tide, and sometimes my struggle seems completely senseless. I keep to the principle of never using another human being or treating them like objects, but to what end, /lit/? Feels like the best I can count with in the future is an ex-toth who regrets their previous choices or a crazy evangelical.

It’s sad to meet someone who seems to escape the pattern, or at least wishful thinking tells you so, just to know them better or check their instagram and see they too are caught in this frenzy of frivolity and egotism. There’s an especially depressing twist when you realize some people only got into it due to peer pressure, but then again, as times passes I might as well end up doing the same; After all, loneliness takes its toll.

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Sure. I'll say this though: I believe a capable and motivated student will be provided a lifetime of inspiration from just about any serious English translation of Homer. Engaging deeply with one text has been for thousands of years and likely will be for a few thousand more one of the best ways to sharpen a mind. I would say, unless you are really interested in translation studies or learning Homeric yourself, your time would be better spent more deeply engaging with one translation or moving on to other books you are interested in than in trying to compare translations of a work which you have very limited access to in the original. There are way too many great classics (and just books) out there to spend too much time comparing translations if that act in itself is not your end.

/lit/ has always been a bit more fixated on picking the "Best" translation for books than I think is really useful or healthy -- certainly a valid impulse, but carried out too eagerly here. Just pick one and dive the fuck in.