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Zak Storer 🎡 @zacts

@nadir So, I have a goal of reading a quality book, and I mean quality literature, every few days. My secret is going to be to take breaks from social media quite often. I also will be getting my news from newspapers at the cafe and the library. No TV (which I don't do now anyway). This is how I plan to get through a Liberal Arts curriculum and all of these languages.

Carrie @carrie@octodon.social

@zacts @nadir Hijacking to ask what does "quality literature" mean to you?

Zak Storer 🎡 @zacts

@carrie @nadir Hm... some examples of goals of mine might be: The Iliad (Fagles translation), The Odyssey (Fagles translation), Herodotus Histories, Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice, Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights, A History of Greek Mathematics Vol. I and Vol. II by Sir Thomas Heath, An Introduction to Ancient Greek, The Marx-Engels Reader, What is Mathematics? by Courant and Robbins. The classics and great books for now. Also, more modern literature as well.

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Zak Storer 🎡 @zacts

@carrie @nadir This list will definitely evolve as I make progress with it. A meetup friend of mine is doing this now, and I am totally inspired by his progress.

Zak Storer 🎡 @zacts

@carrie @nadir Also, I heavily want to read the original Greek of aristophanes and sappho. (like in about a year or two from now).

Carrie @carrie@octodon.social

@zacts @nadir I'm all for Pride and Prejudice, absolutely hate Wuthering Heights. Good on you for the Greek; I was going to go for a degree in Comp Lit until I was told I'd have to learn 4 different languages. I didn't have enough time on my plate for that.

Zak Storer 🎡 @zacts

@carrie @nadir Yeah four different languages is a bit intense for a single degree.

Carrie @carrie@octodon.social

@zacts @nadir But needed for comparative literature, for sure. I only wanted to go into it because my passion is for Western religious literature, and learning Hebrew/Greek would've been right in that wheelhouse. Maybe someday. Any other multi-cultural authors on your list?

Zak Storer 🎡 @zacts

@carrie @nadir Perhaps some Buddhist texts. I would especially be interested in Buddhist Logic.

Zak Storer 🎡 @zacts

@carrie @nadir But to be honest, I really have to get into the groove of improving my reading habits and heavily lessening social media. I have made huge progress with the Attic Greek, however.

Carrie @carrie@octodon.social

@zacts @nadir I need to do that as well. The lure of social media has been keeping me from reading the way I used to. I used to be able to finish a book a day; now, I'm lucky if I finish one in a month simply because I don't make time. I have so many books I want to read and social media is just so vacuous, I really just need to apply myself.

Zak Storer 🎡 @zacts

@carrie @nadir I'm not going to completely eliminate social media. I'm only going to set vacations from it.

Carrie @carrie@octodon.social

@zacts @nadir I'd completely eliminate it if I could, but like you, it's the only way to stay in touch with certain people.

nadir @nadir

@zacts In school we read a nice book. But i was young, perhaps now i would consider it crap: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_

Zak Storer 🎡 @zacts

@carrie @nadir Personally, I would rather go for a couple of languages (which is my plan) and to really learn them well, so that I can really get deep into the surrounding cultural context and deep literature that makes these languages what they are. Language isn't just the language itself, but it is also the culture and literature surrounding the language.

nadir @nadir

@carrie @zacts The movie Wuthering Heights with Tom Hardy is good though (Well: it is the way Tom Hardy always is: looking like the grim ripper).

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