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11536803 No.11536803 [Reply] [Original]

What do you consider to be some /essential/ books to read if you want to be well versed in the Western canon?

>> No.11536808
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>>11536803
The western canon

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>the Western canon

>> No.11536837

>>11536803
chad and virgin should be the other way round

>> No.11536855

>>11536837
this.

>> No.11536863

What do you mean by Western Canon? Would you prefer reactionary/traditionalist/fascist authors?

If so, start with the Greeks, and come back in 6 months

>> No.11536865

>>11536855
>>11536837
No because that’s how it is irl. All the dumbasses use Harry Potter analogies.

The irony of these pictures is that they depict some aspect of reality which hilariously doesn’t match up.

Like ‘the virgin penguin vs chad wordsworth’

No chad reads actually, we all know that, that’s what makes it hilarious

>> No.11536866

>>11536803
>What do you consider to be some /essential/ books to read if you want to be well versed in the Western canon?

>What do you consider to be [some /]essential[/ books] to [read if you want to be well versed in] the Western canon?

>What do you consider to be essential to the Western canon?

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>>11536855
>>11536837

>> No.11536869

>>11536803
Just read Sophocles. Everything after was a mistake.

>> No.11537122

>>11536803
Non-obvious Rec: Hans Blumenberg's The Legitimacy of the Modern Age

Obvious Rec: The Iliad

>> No.11537823

>>11536866

I agree

>> No.11537835

>>11536808
Fpbp

>> No.11537861

If you want to take up serious reading don't treat your reading list like buffet of literary history to be sampled, pick one topic to master. A reading list of 10 classics is worse than one of 10 books about the same classic. Doing the latter will produce lasting gains, the former won't.

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>>11536865

>No chad reads

>> No.11537999

>>11536865
>No chad reads actually
doesn't matter, the meme isn't what some imaginary 'chad' does, it's about making the virgin as irritatingly relatable as possible and the chad as the polar opposite of the virgin. that's it.
the potter/canon one is the wrong way round, it's just /lit/ circlejerk material in this orientation

>> No.11538131

the greeks, the romans and the enlightenment

>> No.11538260

>>11537999

>it's about making the virgin as irritatingly relatable as possible

Shit man, didn't realize you were the meme police, I'll never make wrong memes again officer.

>> No.11538310

>>11537919
>Also dies in carcrash

>> No.11538518

>>11538310

>dies in a high speed sportscar accident with an unused train ticket in his pocket

How.. absurd. Pure Chad way to go.

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>>11537999

But this one is better tho