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lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 04:15:51 JST lainy

I took a look at the contents of the 'harvard classics', more or less a personal selection of books that is supposed to get you to the halfway accomplished human level. i think if you actually read all of them, you know more about life, literature, science and poetry than 99% of humans on this earth. If this was in any way normal then we really did lose a lot.

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  lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 04:19:34 JST lainy
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  @ocean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics
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    Harvard Classics
    
    The Harvard Classics, originally marketed as Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books, is a 50-volume series of classic works of world literature, important speeches, and historical documents compiled and edited by Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot. Eliot believed that a careful reading of the series and following the eleven reading plans included in Volume 50 would offer a reader, in the comfort of the home, the benefits of a liberal education, entertainment and counsel of history's greatest creative minds. The initial success of The Harvard Classics was due, in part, to the branding offered by Eliot and Harvard University. Buyers of these sets were apparently attracted to Eliot's claims. The General Index contains upwards of 76,000 subject references. The first 25 volumes were published in 1909 followed by the next 25 volumes in 1910. The collection was enhanced when the Lectures on The Harvard Classics was added in 1914 and Fifteen Minutes a Day - The Reading Guide in 1916. The Lectures on The Harvard Classics was edited by Willam A. Neilson, who had assisted Eliot in the selection and design of the works in Volumes...
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  oshy (ocean@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 04:19:35 JST oshy
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  @lain Where do I start (I'm illiterate)
  
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  oshy (ocean@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 04:22:36 JST oshy
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  @lain Sweet! I'm going to ask my Mom to read these to me!
  
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  THOT POLICE (s8n@posting.lolicon.rocks)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 04:22:45 JST THOT POLICE
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  @lain @ocean same energy
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  dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 04:22:59 JST dilbert 1
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  @lain I remember a few volumes being in many houses when I was a kid
  
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  lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 04:23:25 JST lainy
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  @sun these days you can get the whole thing for like 3 dollars on kindle
  
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  dictatordave (dictatordave@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 04:24:53 JST dictatordave
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  @sun @lain whats on the list
  
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  dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 04:24:53 JST dilbert 1
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  @dictatordave @lain I remember st augustine and don qixote
  
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  lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 04:27:23 JST lainy
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  @sun @dictatordave the list really is incredible, it's on wikipedia. Some surprises for me:
  
  tons of scientific writers: darwin, maxwell, adam smith.
  
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  german, italian, spanish authors. the quran. buddhist scriptures. it's all in there, over a hundred years ago
  
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  dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 04:28:43 JST dilbert 1
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  @lain @dictatordave critical culture had not set in yet
  
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  lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 04:28:51 JST lainy
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  @sun @dictatordave if they had read him they wouldn't have done this democracy nonsense
  
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  feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 04:29:25 JST feld
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  @ocean @lain start here
  
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  @lain @ocean nice list, but i think its missing some things. where is Antiracist Baby??
  
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  @why @lain @ocean I remember Street Sharks fondly
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  @lain @dictatordave I liked where he talked about how Americans wouldn't discipline their kids and when the kids sassed back the parents would say things like "he's our little revolutionary"
  
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  The 50 Harvard Classics are cool but I checked the list and they don't even have Nekopara or Mega Man 2 on there so????
  
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  @ocean @sun @lain no Harry Potter? no Halo Fall of Reach??
  
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  @why @ocean @lain the DOOM novelizations are pretty good
  
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  @sun @lain @why Honestly the lack of Evangelion (and End of Evangelion) is sickening
  
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  @ocean @lain @why we need a new fedi classics 50 volume
  
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  @sun @lain @ocean idk the one i read sucked i kept waiting for them to get to mars and the demons never even showed up
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  > pic not related
  
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  @sun @lain @dictatordave Oddly enough I've read de Toqeville. Not pictured because my wife keeps it.
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  @sun @lain @why Oh my god we should actually do that, like a compilation of the most important works in Fediverse culture
  
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  @lain @sun #studenttask make a torrent of these.
  
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  @lain @sun or. . . :PirateTurtle:
  
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  kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 04:44:25 JST kaia
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  @lain and how about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Kanon ? :Sheew:
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    Der Kanon
    
    Der Kanon (German pronunciation: [deːɐ̯ ˈkaːnɔn], "The Canon") or more precisely Marcel-Reich-Ranickis Kanon is a large anthology of exemplary works of German literature. Edited by the literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920–2013), he called the anthology, announced on 18 June 2001 in the German news magazine Der Spiegel under the title "The Canon of worthwhile German Works", his magnum opus. The five parts appeared from 2002 to 2006 published by Insel Verlag: 1. Novels (2002), 2. Tales/Stories (2003), 3. Dramatic Works (2004), 4. Poetry (2005), and 5. Essays (2006). As expected, the anthology met with opposition and criticism, and even the idea of an anthology was questioned, but Reich-Ranicki called this questioning "incomprehensible, because the lack of a canon would mean relapse into barbarism. Reich-Ranicki sought to differentiate his anthology from previous compilations in his hope to imagine a "reader judge" such as teachers, students, librarians, who would need to draw from this canon because they were in the "first line of those who deal with literature professionally." The...
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  @kaia zu sehr feingeist, aber immer noch besser als das was man sonst so lesen muss
  
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  Sorry, I'm terminally online. Kids these days call CJK languages "moon runes" collectively.
  
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  @ocean @lain @why daddys cummies vol 1 by cvvv
  
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  @lain can you publish your toplist of favorite scifi (authors). wanna check whether my audio book provider has them :fernread:
  
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  -mein kampf
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