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Re:A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important by afpx on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @09:45AM (#28060929)
I'm trying to read it ("Common Sense") and, it's making me feel pretty dumb. I'm only a couple of paragraphs in, and my eyes are already glazing over, and I can't follow what he's talking about.

The Wikipedia page says it's the highest selling book in American history, or something. And, people read this at taverns, apparently.

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Re:A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important by prox on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @12:42PM (#28063136)
It certainly takes a moment to get accustomed to it. More than 200 years separate us from his time and way of writing. I do think if you stick with it you will adapt to it. It’s not unlike reading a new coding language in that sense :)
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