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If I read the Greeks, I don't read Dante. If I read Shakespeare, I stop reading modernists. Is reading the entire canon a human impossibility or Im doing it wrong? Did Harold Bloom really read the entire canon?

>> No.16606597

>>16606586
What do you mean? You can't read the Greeks and Dante?

>> No.16606615

>>16606586
That latin is so shitty

>> No.16606619

>>16606586
You know people in the good old days read the Greeks, Dante, and Shakespeare, right? What's stopping you?

>> No.16606621
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>>16606586
>Brevis

>> No.16606622

>>16606597
tl;dr Is it really possible to read everything from the canon?

>> No.16606626

>>16606619
Maybe he's 89 years old.

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>>16606586
I'm always spamming this book when I get the chance:
>The Passion of the Western Mind
It's a complete overview up till postmodernism and should be considered a classic. And then you will find the motivation to start reading the Greeks and all philosophy, trust me. You will have context. I've just started the journey myself.

>> No.16606634

>>16606619
Only what has been produced in the past two centuries is enough to occupy a person's entire life if he intends to read everything.

>> No.16606639

>>16606622
If you’re as fast a reader as Bloom and live as long.
Or, you know, have enough spare time or make it your career to do so.
Go through the titles though. Edit out what you’re not interested in. Add or subtract as the years pass.
The cannon is a suggestion. Enjoy it.

>> No.16606647

>>16606632
Thank you, anon.

>> No.16606652

>>16606639
In other words: only if you be Bloom.

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>>16606632
>and all philosophy
Not recommending this

>> No.16606776

Its not shame read only what you want to. To hell with the canon.

>> No.16606785

>>16606639
your only good post in this board so far, hope it becomes the first of many

>> No.16606874

>>16606622
No. Know why? Because muh cannon is not a fixed list. You can keep reading more or less canonical works your entire life.
Your job as a reader is not to read some list of books, it is to learn and to enrich yourself. If you're not intending to become a scholar, read what (You) want, not something that has Bloom's seal of approval only because it has Bloom's seal of approval.
It's ridiculous how this board reads the greatest books of all time, yet creates so much anxiety around them.

>>16606632
Sounds like hegelian bullshit, but ok

>> No.16606897

>>16606785
I get this comment almost daily

>> No.16606908

>>16606874
Behold, a wise man has spoke!

>> No.16606924

>>16606908
spoken*

>> No.16606929

>>16606924
Thank you. Im retarded.

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>>16606586
To be fair, it depends, are you going to read the works in the language they're written?, because if note you can just rush your way through them,
e.g my father gave me the Republic when I was a 11-year-old, I understand it, but I could not fully grasp the contents of the book.

>> No.16606994

>>16606586
Read the Byzantines and then YA. Your education in the humanities will need no more

>> No.16607021

Read your classics, and for philosophy just read academic summaries. Most philosophers can't write efficiently to save their fucking lives.

Then when you're ready for the real shit pick up some occult books.

>> No.16607168

>>16607021
What kind of occult? Guenon?

>> No.16607450

Bump.

>> No.16607664

>>16606615
You’re aware it’s an ancient aphorism and the elimination of verbs where they are implied by context is a common convention in Latin sayings?
... Right?

>> No.16607672

>>16606586
It's not for everyone but you should at least try if you intend to write or participate in any serious discourse

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>>16606586
Yes, it is possible, because Bloom wasn't that well read actually, he was deeply ignorant of one the richest literary traditions of the entire world, which, in his ignorance, he reduced to just three writers.
https://youtu.be/rVQYyKYYTbM

>> No.16608898

>>16606586
Choose your own canon and stop being a cuck.

>> No.16609752 [DELETED] 

>>16606615
Imagine not supplying sees when there is no verb

>> No.16609754

>>16606615
Imagine not supplying esse when there is no verb

>> No.16609805

>>16606632
Should I read this?