How readily can /lit/ quote famous works and authors, whether single lines or entire passages?
Not only remember them, but apply them readily and appropriately?
This seems like a forgotten art, and one that could be pretty effective, in an age where people merely run-off their half-formed, feels-ridden mental abortions as if they have some sort of merit.
Sadly I'm shit at memorizing things, never mind retaining them long-term.
I can usually manage about three lines of any given piece that I wanted to memorise before I fuck up. I memorise them based on how much I like them, nothing to do with how famous they are.
Why memorise famous things anyway? Someone else will know it, I don't need to remember.
>>8236740
>Why memorise famous things anyway? Someone else will know it, I don't need to remember.
Why not? I've always liked the idea of blowing some plebs' collective socks off with a passage from Shakespeare/Goethe/etc, tactically quoted so as to utterly end an argument.
>>8236731
It helps to have a few widely applicable and memorable quotations from a wide range of authors.
Unless you've read a work in question many times, or continue to do so, it's unlikely that you'll get a lot to stick within your mind without much effort.
Right now I'm scouring Nietzsche's stuff, for example:
>• “So few people nowadays realize that one in a thousand, at most, is justified in putting his writing before the world. Everyone else who attempts it, earns as the just reward for every sentence he sees into print nothing but Homeric laughter from readers capable of true judgement – for truly, it is a spectacle for the gods, watching a literary Hephaestus limp up with his pathetic offerings.
