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Anonymous Thu Sep 8 19:11:33 2016 No.8488010 [Reply] [Original]

>In such ways, those who had been great lords in this world earned a poor, wretched, nasty living there below. Philosophers on the contrary, and those who had been indigent in this world had their turn at being fat lords in that world beyond.

>I saw Diogenes, in a large purple robe, a sceptre in his right hand, parading magnificently about like a prelate and driving Alexander the Great to distraction for having failed properly to patch his breeches; he paid him for it with great thwacks from his stick.

What's your excuse for not reading G&P?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 19:20:33 2016 No.8488036 You mean Grippeminaud & Panurge, right?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 19:39:27 2016 No.8488075 >>8488036 Gargantua and Pantagruel.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 20:01:33 2016 No.8488119 >>8488075 Grandgousier & Picrocholle?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 20:03:40 2016 No.8488123 Gerber und Pinochet?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 20:04:58 2016 No.8488127 >>8488123 Gass & Pynchon

Anonymous Thu Sep 8 20:05:07 2016 No.8488128

>>8488010
Yep, this is the kind of trash I expect somebody who was too dumb for DFW to read. Poop jokes, references to uncredentialed and uneducated meme-philosophers (N.B. DFW was actually credentialed and educated), and unfulfilled fantasies of power that distract from your tiny brain and the mediocre life it has given you.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 20:06:42 2016 No.8488133 File: 241 KB, 950x576, 2310.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8488128 wew lad

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 20:07:15 2016 No.8488137 >>8488010 >>8488128 Gafemas & PO

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 20:08:13 2016 No.8488140 >>8488128 0/10 have a sage, friendo

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 20:10:18 2016 No.8488146 >>8488140 Don't worry about him, Anon be mad.

Anonymous Thu Sep 8 20:23:31 2016 No.8488182

Then fail not most carefully to peruse the books of the Greek, Arabian, and Latin physicians, not despising the Talmudists and Cabalists; and by frequent anatomies get thee the perfect knowledge of that other world, called the microcosm, which is man. And at some of the hours of the day apply thy mind to the study of the Holy Scriptures; first, in Greek, the New Testament, with the Epistles of the Apostles;: and then the Old Testament in Hebrew. In brief, let me see thee an abyss and bottomless pit of knowledge; for from henceforward, as thou growest great and becomest a man, thou must part from this tranquillity and rest of study, thou must learn chivalry, warfare, and the exercises of the field, the better thereby to defend my house and our friends, and to succour and protect them at all their needs against the invasion and assaults of evildoers. - Rabelais

Even Rabby suggests you start with the Greeks.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 20:30:46 2016 No.8488198 I've read it, it's pretty good, I should re-read it soon in a different translation.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 08:58:39 2016 No.8489660 >>8488198 Which one?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 15:57:54 2016 No.8490810 >>8489660

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