/lit/ - Literature

>>13297603
ibid means ibidem, which basically means that field, generally author or title, is the same as the previout citation

>>13297603
the cousin of Op. Cit.

>>13297603
He’s an Arab philosopher. Pretty esoteric stuff.

>>13297683
Something so utterly unfathomable that no Human Reason could bear it

>>13297603

investment banking asks often for your identification instead of your Freudian ID

Ibid of Abad of Assad of the East, of the Desert, of the 8th century, anno domini, was a post-neoclassical Christian scholar that mentally preserved the remaining works of the library of Alexandria after it burned down. He is renowned as one of the most knowledgeable men to have ever lived. To this day, his name is used in jest to cite something that most know as common sense.

>>13297603
>pretending to be dumb is funny

>>13297805
Actually it was a reference to a Lovecraft short story, I guess

>>13297699
I feel bad for laughing at this

>>13297831
I was in the know, OP. Apparently a student cited “Ibid” as though he was a Latin historian and he made a whole story just to make fun of him

>>13297956
Not OP but a Lovecraft fag
He was actually not that bad at humour as someone would have expected him to be