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post #61 of 63
12/1/08 at 11:30pm
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Originally Posted by zacharydschroeder View Post
+1 on Ecclesiastes.

Vanity of vanities! There is nothing new under the sun...except Eric Glennie designs of course.
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post #62 of 63
12/1/08 at 11:56pm
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Originally Posted by rach2jlc View Post
No.
If I want to read long winded, pointless books that ramble on and on and on about nothing, then I read Proust.

If you had been serious about this, it would have a double tragedy even greater than the time my friend, upon hearing the opening words of "Bohemian Rhapsody," groaned: "Oh man, I hate the Beatles!"

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Originally Posted by JLibourel View Post
Probably have read it in its entirety several times in English. As a young man (21), I read the entire Latin Vulgate. I have probably read the New Testament in the original Greek several times over.

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A current project of this sort is re-reading the Iliad in the original. The fact that I have read it in the Greek three times before makes it somewhat easier. However, the last time I read it was probably 40 years ago. After I finish the Iliad (I'm in Book XVIII at the moment), I then want to do the Odyssey, then shift over to Latin and re-read the Aeneid. That is fresher in memory, since I only re-read it about 12 years ago.

Fucking awesome.
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post #63 of 63
12/3/08 at 3:57am
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Originally Posted by zacharydschroeder View Post
+1 on Ecclesiastes.

And yes, I have read it cover-to-cover.



I had a very similar experience.

I didn't know you'd read all of it. kudos ZF!
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