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13043629 No.13043629 [Reply] [Original]

>Not starting with The Epic of Gilgamesh in sumerian
Anon... are you even trying?

>> No.13043964

>Not starting with the hymns of Enheduanna, sung in Urgaric phrase self-inscribed on a cuneiform tablet

you'll never make it

>> No.13043975

>not starting with the single-celled organisms

>> No.13044041
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>>13043629
>Not devoting your entire life to parsing through the most ancient of texts relating to Atlantis, tracking down its location, uncovering its library, learning its secrets after spending decades analyzing its every word, and ascending to the realm of the Blessed.
Face it you will always be a pleb.

>> No.13044053

>>13044041
This is, unironically, one of my deepest dreams. I'm more concerned with destroying industrial society, but if I won the powerball, I'd definitely take a trip or two to Antarctica and dig in the ice

>> No.13044087

>>13044041
>>13044053
Atlantis was a city in Mauritania, you can go visit it

>> No.13044785

>>13044087
The eye of the Sahara is a decent candidate, but not the continent of Atlantis. It laid west of the pillars and between Europe and the Americas

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>>13044053
>I'm more concerned with destroying industrial society

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>not downloading hundreds of textbooks and going through them to hide from your depression

I'm learning

>> No.13046237

>>13046151
Nope. Even rome was too advanced. I'm sorry bud

>> No.13047220

>not starting with the Mahabharata in Sanskrit
Really nigga?

>> No.13047245

>>13044041
When I was younger I wanted to get into archaeology and do something like that. Sounds like a lot of fun, even if Atlantis ends up never having existed

>> No.13047254

>>13044041
>>13047220
>not finding the Garden of Eden, and reading tablets left behind by angels before reading anything further

Genuinely never going to make it. May you have mediocre prose all the days of your lives

>> No.13047420

>>13043629
>>13043964
>>13044041
I love you guys.
Never change, /lit/.

>> No.13047452

>>13043629
Dumb frogposter

>> No.13047475
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>>13044041
>Not believing in the Lovecraftian mythos and searching for the Mountains of Madness and Cthulu
You are never gonna make it