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If your first encounter of a text happens under unfavorable conditions, does it poison your relationship with that text for all time? Can you ever truly enjoy the text without recalling those earliest memories? What of the opposite? Does the wonderful teacher leave indelible marks that affix themselves to particular passages forever elevating them?

>> No.14214548

>>14214520
I don't think so, if the text is worth anything it will distract you from your surroundings. What can happen is that after you read something, in the time before which you read it again, you can come to associate it with certain unpleasant people/ideas by seeing it related to them, which can distort your original feelings about the text a bit. You should be able to clear these away by reading it again though. I have what is probably seen as an archaic and naive view of texts in which I think they mean really only one central thing and if you can figure out what that thing is it never changes, you can inhabit the same ambiguous conceptual-sensory world every time you return to the text, even as you yourself have changed.

>> No.14214620

>If your first encounter of a text happens under unfavorable conditions, does it poison your relationship with that text for all time?

Depends on who you are and in what direction you progress.
Humans change within their life, the past experiences give indication of who they are at any given point, but the multitude of experience gives opportunity for people to have different feelings about the same topic.

Now this means yes, it can change in both directions, just most of the time it doesn't.

>> No.14215118

>>14214520
I only started reading when I was holed up in Afghanistan with thirteen other angry men while some sand people were trying to kill us.

I still love Moby Dick, so no. A good book is good, no matter where or when you read it.

>> No.14215145

depends whether you have the ability to be objective and rational.

/thread

>> No.14215181

>>14215145
>the ability to be objective and rational

I'm human, so no I can't do that.

>> No.14215193

Being recommended something by a cringy weirdo can taint it for a while in my mind. I do eventually come around though.

It took me nearly a decade to give Monty Python a try, because it's fan base in my school was so annoying.

>> No.14215823

>>14214520
What are the Chinese doing? This is scary. Brainwashing little African children into Chinese culture to harvest their offsprings' organs?

>> No.14215835

>>14215823
They better read the Greeks.

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14215886

chinese is a pretty hard language so learning it would be probably increase their IQ. then Xi would have negro supersoldiers and his social credit system can finally take over the world freeing it of its evil free will and hierarchical human tendencies, and finally establishing sino-negro-european global tankie communism
>tfw 4d chess

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14215992

>>14215886

What do you think about this?

>> No.14216054

>>14215823
They're starting the new scramble for Africa. Everyone wants a cheap labor force and teaching them Chinese will make them more likely to benefit China.

>> No.14216086

>NOOO DON'T EDUCATE THEM YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO TAKE THEIR RESOURCES AND RAPE THEIR WOMEN

>> No.14216478

>>14214520
at least 1/3 of that room is only thinking about raping the chink

>> No.14216511

>>14216478

They are humans after all..

>> No.14216516

>>14215992
>>14215886
Glad we're having this conversation. Here's another source that links west Africa with easy Asian: https://youtu.be/DpB-2Xot7I4

>> No.14216546

>>14216478
Kek, but doubt. She isn't even that cute.

>> No.14216708

>>14216546
compared to the people around you, but these are africans

>> No.14216840

>>14215823
Like Europe has done for the last 150 years?

>> No.14217109

>>14216708
Still, beauty is usually defined by what is around you. At my old church there was a guy who did preaching in Africa and he said he was taken to the outskirts where the tribal people live and the kids there had never seen a white person before. When they first saw him and his kids they were pretty scared.

Later on of course they got used to him and played around with his kids.

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>those heels in a saharan shithole
I didn't envision such a fetish

>> No.14218799

>>14215181
>2019
>being human

>> No.14218817

>>14214520
I remember disliking Othello when I first read it in high school, though I liked Shakespeare's other plays very much. This was probably due to my grade 11 english teacher who was a BITCH. I reread it in college and really liked it, and have been fascinated by Iago since.

>> No.14218818

>>14216840
Yeah but Europeans are human

>> No.14218863

>>14214520
>kitten heels
>peep toe