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>Realize I need to read the Bible, the Bhagavad Gita, Confucius, all Greek mythology, Aristotle, Homer, Socrates, the Pali canon, jainist scripts, the Apocrypha, the New York times from years 1820-1840, Algonquin sun calendars, and have a complete understanding of the history and culture of Rome, ancient Greece, modern Greece, china, central Asia, Europe, Britain, pre Columbian America and post Columbian America, as well as intimate knowledge of topography, geology, weather patterns of new england, climatology, watershed ecology, biology and extensive knowledge of flauna and flora of Western New England, and the complete works of Charles Dickens, and ancient Hindu vedic texts that have been lost in time, in order to simply glimpse the ideas presented in this work
This is severely demoralizing. How am I ever going to be well read enough to understand what any author is saying?
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>>9141971
Just tap into the world spirit and channel the text through it dialectically such that you retroactively engage in the creative process of all of those works as a new a priori mode of thinking. And lurk moar so I don't have to tell you basic shit like this again.
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Try reading all the things you listed.
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you have autism
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start with the greeks
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>>9142038
Years to read one book? Fucking brainlet.
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>>9142038
That's why you have autism. It's okay.
Those insane preparatory lists are only really necessary for philosophy or mathematics. Walden is such an easy book.
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>>9142057
I read at 1500 wpm with full comprehension. I get through books in hours, not years. It would still take me years to read all those texts that I mentioned, because they are hard to find.
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>>9141971
btw you have to learn greek and latin
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>>9142105
t. never learned the gucking Dewey Decimal System
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>read Socrates
try again mate
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Get an annotated edition. I think there's one on libgen?
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>>9142948
That isn't the issue, if I wanted to simply recognize the references that's simple enough, even for ones I don't know I could simply use context. Rather I want to fully understand the source material that Thoreau is writing from .
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Nah, that's not true
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>>9142006
keked at maximum level
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>>9141971
that's really not that much
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