>'At one time I was deluded into believing I took pleasure in reading it; but the endless recital of battles which are all the same, those gods who are always interfering but never do anything, that Helen of his who is the cause of the war but then plays scarcely any part in the action, and that Troy which they keep besieging without ever taking - it all used to make me weep with boredom. I used to ask scholars if reading Homer bored them as much as it bored me; the honest ones admitted that the book dropped from their hands every time, but added that one had to have it in one's library, as a monument of antiquity, like those rusty coins which cannot be put into circulation.'
/lit/erally blown the fuck out
What a pleb lol
>>7411137
I bet 90% of lit people are bored by lit and just read it because it gives them a sense of accomplishment.
>>7411163
Speak for yourself lad
>In this vein, Montaigne mocked books that were difficult to read. He admitted to his readers that he found Plato more than a little boring – and that he just wanted to have fun with books:
>“I am not prepared to bash my brains for anything, not even for learning’s sake however precious it may be. From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime… If I come across difficult passages in my reading I never bite my nails over them: after making a charge or two I let them be… If one book wearies me I take up another.”
>>7411165
Nigga I would put myself in the 10%. You know what I say is probably true tho...
>>7411167
Plato is fun as fuck, maybe he just didn't catch some of Socrates banter
>>7411169
Nah, that seems extremely exaggerative and generally only transients will have this sense of accomplishment as their impetus to read.
>>7411137
This looks like a Goodreads review with good prose.
>>7411167
This prose bores me. Here, let me cure it with a little of Montaigne's own medicine. Let's boil it down and see what illustrious simplicity lies at its core...
>I
>AM
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>PLEB
oh now that's interesting, Montaigne.
>>7411228
>not being familiar with the text
>praising a translation for good prose
neo-/lit/ is a reality from upon which we cannot escape
>>7411287
Not that guy your replying to, but why can't you praise a translation for good prose?
>>7411300
you can, he just thinks it's patrician to shit on translations as an axiom.
Montaigne is right. All the "dumb plebs" in real life actually just instinctively understand Hume and Stirner. The reason socialist crazed /lit/ loves Stirner is that he states the obvious.
>>7411309
Kik. I might hotkey this.
