/lit/ - Literature

>>11953418
Can't say about Pythagoras ripping off the Egyptians, but Plato supposedly travelled the world quite a bit and was influenced by them. So if Western philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato, it's in fact that for Egypt rather or something like that. Pythagoras, being a weirdo cultist and school leader himself probably had contact with Egyptian culture. We wuz philosophers basically.

What is 'Excellence'?

theres literally no point in reading fiction. you dont get smarter, you dont acquire new knowledge. fiction is fairy tales for escapists, its pathetic. the only time reading fiction is acceptable if its a book with a historical context and you're reading it to get a better understanding of something non fiction you are reading like reading the illiad as part of your study of ancient greece etc

pic related is what the average fiction reading npc looks like, note the brown skin