Oldfag here. Looking for some reassurance. Any oldfags spend

>>9616290
Of course it's normal to forget stuff but I find once you start brushing up on it it comes back quite easily.

I always thought the "start with the Greeks" meant more, "Find a Greek your passionate about and read him for life, while also reading everything else that interests you."

>>9616290
you should've never stopped reading the greeks

>>9616357

Okay, great. Well you see here is the problem. I am reading Moby Dick, and when I read a line that makes an Aristotle reference, or references the Medes or something Herodotus said, I'm in that terrible tip-of-my-tongue position.

I believe my memory is simply failing and it makes me so frustrated. But I do not want to go through the texts again.

Maybe you could recommend some surveys or anthologies you've enjoyed?

How old are you OP?

>>9616385
23

>>9616377
>I believe my memory is simply failing

low-test, I suggest you look into improving your diet and lifestyle

get an annotated moby-dick from a second-hand store like I did, also, we're doing a reading group of moby-dick here on /lit/ starting june 17. it was my idea and im going to try to make sure it doesnt turn to shit.

>>9616385

46

>>9616377
You forget how to use google?

>>9616408
This.
>>9616433
Also, what are you doing here on 4chan? Are you a writer, a professor? What's your profession? Got any advice for us youngfags?

>>9616385
5'7, why?

>>9617601
4chin has been around for quite some time

>>9616433
thank god someone older than me

>>9616433
I wish I had a /lit/ papa.

Be my papa.

>>9618689
how old are you?

>>9618703
pushing 40, i should probably just kill myself but i always have this annoying hope that something good will happen or plus there's still a lot of shit i want to read

>forget the greeks
>dont forget all the times i got head or busted in good pussy

who is really winning here

>>9618722
homer is the only greek worth remembering, maybe sophocles, but all those austistic philosophy queers are fucking idiots, sick of these philosophy nerds posting their bullshit on a literature board like anyone cares about that trash

>>9618720>>9618720

I'm 21 and i have hope something good will happen plus there's still a lot of shit i want to read too. So am I in the wrong path?

>>9618879
well "doing something with your life" is probably a good idea, also it's better to have money than to not have money

Childhood is idolizing Plato
Youth is idolizing Nietzsche
Maturity is idolizing Aristotle

>>9618889
nietzsche isn't an idealist, youth is idealism, maturity is living in the real world as it is

>>9616290
Do you think that knowledge will make your brain tastier for the worms?

For 99% of people philsophy is a means not an end

vump