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So thinking about how people memorized the Iliad and verbally told it to other people made me wonder, what book would /lit/ memorize to tell the future generation about?

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>>10675565
my diary desu

>> No.10675574

>>10675565
blood meridian fuck the haters

>> No.10675658

The Aeneid because it’s just both the Iliad and Odessy but shortened down slightly

>> No.10675969

>>10675565
My Twisted World - Elliot Rodger

>> No.10676003

>>10675565
IJ

>> No.10676011

All the best /lit/ copypastas

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>>10675565
Srsly?

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>>10675565
>actual answer
Gospels and Book of Psalms

>> No.10676746

>>10675565
This is actualy a hard question, but I will say I would memorize Starship Troopes or Leviathan.
I realy can't say now with

>> No.10676753

>>10675565
Finnegan's Walk

>> No.10676777

>>10676280
Yeah, can right you should.

In fact is are the entire bible.

>> No.10676792

>>10675565
>how people memorized the Iliad
they didn't, they built up a collection of formulas that allowed them to semi-improvise a slightly different illiad every time they performed it. so the more appropriate question would be whose style do you wish to have burned into your head so that if someone says something like "red riding hood but pynchon wrote it" you'd be able to just produce it out of thin air.

>> No.10677459

>>10676777
yes lord