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11097660 No.11097660 [Reply] [Original]

What works have you committed to memory?

I’m working on memorizing Ecclesiastes. KJV. It’s irresistible. I didn’t know phrases could get stuck in your head like songs can.

>> No.11097663

>>11097660
Do you have a strategy for this? I'd like to memorize the entirety of In Search of Lost Time in the original french.

>> No.11097673

>>11097663
It sounds silly, but recording yourself reading it and listening to that. Chunking the recording. Experimenting with what size chunks don’t make you go crazy.

>> No.11097676

>>11097673
Interesting. Thank you for extrapolating.

>> No.11097678

>>11097660
Is recitation a "vanity of vanities"?

I kid, and honestly I recite to myself most times I (not pessimistically) tend to the yard. It's certainly the Old Testament book with the most wit and humour.

>> No.11097739

>>11097660
I memorized Isaiah 53 but that's it.

>> No.11097745

>>11097660
>Americans

>> No.11097984

>>11097660
i only memorize things implicitly

>> No.11097996

>>11097663
>>11097673
lol

>>11097660
Same w. Ecclesiastes. I think I have Ecc 1-9 memorized? Not sure. It's my fav book of the Bible by far. I'm working on the Psalms too.

Speaking of the Bible -- what translation do you use for average reading? I tend to slant towards NIV whenever I'm reading for content and KJV for style/poetry.

>> No.11098009

>>11097660
I'd like to memorize Hamlet, and perhaps some of Shakespeare's sonnets.

>> No.11098034

>>11097660
Large parts of Finnegan's Wake.

>> No.11098041

Only Sailing to Byzantium

>> No.11098046

>>11097660
I'll usually make an effort to memorise poems and prose that i really like.

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>>11097996
>not getting your content from the poetry

>> No.11098196

>>11098095
Not the person to which you’re replying. But we didn’t grow up in the 1600’s, and so we cannot call that KJV English, as colossally resounding as it is, the one with which we’ve lived our everyday lives.

It’s like, someone back then was reading a bible that came out right as they did, in the linguistic context matching that which they spoke that day. Reading a newer version is probably, in that respect, giving you a nearer experience to what they actually felt.

In my limited experience I feel like KJV rewards me for working to inherit it, whereas a newer version readily seeks to be inherited.