Re:The death of reading is threatening the soul
by jrimbault on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:23AM
(#14845801)
> just an advertisement for the author's blog
Well... It's one of the many "blogs" worth reading. And a very old one. (sidenote: I'm really not sure you can even call it a "log" of any kind)
Re:The death of reading is threatening the soul
by illegal_in_ca on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:31AM
(#14845845)
Hey thanks for correctly my typo when you quoted my.
I would, however, cut the the paragraph as follows. Everything after is just an adversisement for the authors blog.
When evening comes, I return home and enter my study; on the threshold I take off my workday clothes, covered with mud and dirt, and put on the garments of court and palace. Fitted out appropriately, I step inside the venerable courts of the ancients, where, solicitously received by them, I nourish myself on that food that alone is mine and for which I was born; where I am unashamed to converse with them and to question them about the motives for their actions, and they, out of their human kindness, answer me. And for four hours at a time I feel no boredom, I forget all my troubles, I do not dread poverty, and I am not terrified by death. I absorb myself into them completely. And because Dante says that no one understands anything unless he retains what he has understood, I have jotted down what I have profited from in their conversation and composed a short study..."