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>in those days
>in those distant days
i shiver everytiem

>> No.21060940

>>21060714
That lion is a small lion

>> No.21061041

>>21060714
Why? It's not that deep.

>> No.21061191
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21061191

>>21061041
It doesn't have to have "depth" to be soul-stirring. It can just be an incredibly poetic turn of phrase, something universal and nostalgic and melancholic.

>> No.21061248
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21061248

>The river rises and brings us floods,
>And floating on the water there is a mayfly.
>The mayfly gazes on the face of the sun,
>And then, in an instant, nothing is there

>> No.21061266
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21061266

you could have saved him, /lit/

>> No.21061301

>>21060714
UTREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYAA

>> No.21062386

>>21061041
It is stirring because it is ancient people talking about times which to them were ancient. A time before bread.

>> No.21062709

>>21061191
>>21062386
Again, it's not that deep.

>> No.21062720

>mouldy bread as proof you can't defeat sleep
Kino

>> No.21062835

>>21062709
where u expecting them to drop quantum physsics for it to be 'deep'?

>> No.21063080

>>21061266
There was no saving him. As soon as coochie tamed him, it was unironically over.

>> No.21063139

>>21062709
>depth is required for effect
I get it OP. I get it

>> No.21063186

>>21062720
I dont get it...

>> No.21063477

>>21060714
where is this from? Epic of Gilgamesh?

>> No.21063494

>>21061191
On the contrary I wouldn't say depth and simplicity are opposed, and in fact the Op statement is quite deep; not in itself, but what it means in the context of the work as well as the context of the civilisation and its art.

>> No.21063498

What is depth?

>> No.21063500

>>21063498
deep...

>> No.21063514

>>21063498
>>21063500
Darkness is over the face of it.

>> No.21063641

>>21063498
More than meets the eye
Something you have a lot to thing about

>> No.21064708

>>21060714
>gilgamesh stop raping
>gilgamesh: NO
>keeps raping
>we need that big guy out there to help us
>everyone: SEND HIM A WHORE
>it works
>Gilgamesh has a best friend, stops raping
>kill rich peoples pets instead

>> No.21064796

>>21061041
/thread.

>> No.21064896
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>>21061041
Filtered. How much deeper do you want than a platonic love-brotherhood of Man in Civilization (Gilgamesh) and Man in Nature (Enkidu)? How deep does this ancient epic of their mutual struggle, reconciliation and triumph have to be for you?

When Enkidu dies a potent contemporary question is asked regarding what we lose as humans when the steppe dwelling hide wearing atavistic part of us has died. This is extremely pertinent to us as modern metropolitan massed humanity. Not to even mention the inspiration of Enkidu's death for Gilgamesh to seek out immortality in a fruitless attempt to anchor himself in time amidst the rapidly changing new urbanist-agricultural world, something he wouldn't have done with Enkidu still around since Enkidu was a totem of a timeless hunter-gatherer prehistory.

Epic of Gilgamesh has re-enlivened my resentment of women as a neutering force for evil and what has hurled us in to the chasm of Industrial society. A whore tempting Enkidu to the city and ultimately engineering the corruption of the human soul fits so well, and gives new meaning to the phrase "love from Kazakhstan", seeing as Kazakhstan in Sumerian times was a jump off point for marauding nomad bands to penetrate in to the decadent folds of civilization after civilization, and ultimately becoming corrupt and decadent themselves (Moghuls, Seljuks, Parthians, Indo-Aryans).

>> No.21064904

>>21061191
This level of earnestness seems out of place on /lit/.

>> No.21064911

>>21061266
>Gilgamesh has a rolex

What

>> No.21065046

>>21061191
>>21064896
Excellent posts.

>> No.21065604

best translation of the epic to buy?

>> No.21066658

>>21065604
Stephen Mitchell is a joke of a translator that isn't an expert in the languages he "translates" but I enjoyed his. A more scholarly translation will note gaps in the tablets or ambiguous lines which breaks the flow.

>> No.21066896

>>21064904
>This level of earnestness seems out of place on /lit/.

If not here, where?