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About to read this
What am I in for

>> No.15015317

just start reading it you faggot

>> No.15015322

>>15015285
>He feel for the "read the Greek and Roman classics" meme

I didn't even like the parts I saw in the original latin, and Ovid is worlds better than the others we were forced to translate There was like nice passage in the Aeneid I guess.

>> No.15015330

>>15015285
I liked it unironically, guess that makes me a brainlet. But I was also obsessed with Greco-Roman mythology and Roman culture.

Time, in its stealthy gliding, cheats us all without our notice. Nothing goes more swiftly than do the years.

>> No.15015340

>>15015285
A man turned into a monstrous vermin and the ramifications thereof

>> No.15015343

>>15015340
wrong Metamorphosis

>> No.15015356

>>15015343
Both are different perspectives on the same story. Kafka lacked Ovid's subtlety and just out and talked about cockroaches. I can understand why you might have missed it.

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>>15015356
I thought you misread the title and were talking about Kafka sorry
I understand that Metamorphoses is about people transforming into non-humans in many different ways/meanings I swear

>> No.15015387

>>15015322
>he feel
Sounds like he's doing better than youn

>> No.15015422

>>15015387
Was just re-reading my shitty post. What's fucked I'm making these spelling errors with increasing frequency after I quit weed. Not sure what's happening to me or if I was just always retarded and didn't notice.

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15015427

>prose translation

>> No.15015432

>>15015427
>learns latin for 5 books

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>>15015432
Learns Latin for 5 books.

>> No.15016049

>>15015432
Personally I was thinking of learning Latin to read the Aeneid. I don't think I'll learn Latin for a while though I've already got my hands full there and there aren't many other Latin others I'm interested in.

>> No.15016139

>>15015432
laughing. to think english lit can compare in any way to latin. syntax is overrated. and 5 books. funny.

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>>15016139
ok nigger

>> No.15016181

>>15015285
>What am I in for
Lots of rape

>> No.15016360

>>15015285
Its surprisingly very readable and I found it quite enjoyable
just read it without any preconceptions and don't listen to any of the faggots here
just read it

>> No.15016392

Reading it in Latin and I love it, language used is good both in translation and while translating. I liked the Aeneid, but not as much as I like this. (Obviously the plot of the Aeneid is better, but this is pure poetry, which I personally enjoy better than Virgil's more prosaic style)

>> No.15016460

>>15015317
fpbp