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Because he was a poor nasty solitary short brit.

>Constant Anglo hate on Japanese pornography forum
they h8 us cuz they ain't us

Does anyone know where to find an English edition of De Corpore? And if it's good or not?

>>9853345
>"I am solitary, poor, nasty, British, and short"
>Why did he say this?

He didn't.

He died in 1679, that's 28 years before the Act of Union (1707), which created the British nation/nationality.

He died an Englishman.

>>9853345
As a pun this one is what? Kawaii? I'm speechless.

>>9853515
You know the term British existed for possibly thousands of years before him right?

>>9853345
Reading leviathan for 4 months now, fun book but dense as fuck.

This is the kind of thread I think about making while I'm bored out of my mind at work and sitting around planning all the threads I will make when I get off, and then don't make it because it wasn't memorable enough to outlast the dopamine hit of leaving work.

>>9853783
>fun book but dense as fuck.

It has some of the greatest philosophical prose ever put down in English.

>>9854530
Yeah its one of the best things i've ever read, but im a slow reader

>>9854554
The last section surprises. Rarely anyone ever discusses it.

>>9853345

Probably because he was? in a way?
Or was at a particularly bad mood when he wrote those words (if indeed he did). Self humiliating but quite reflective of the human condition? induced by lethargy or depression?

>>9853834

hahaha

>>9853779
The term Britain would have done. Not the term British. Britain just refers to the land mass. I believe the Romans called it Great Britain and Ireland Little Britain or something along those lines. The term British would not have come into use until the act of union as there was no British identity until then, and the term Britain itself would have had very little use.

>>9853345
Manlet