I have an advanced degree. I don’t think I know/nor do I want to know everything. But I’m an expert in my field. Outside of that, I like to consume fluffy, shallow media. Because my work is very hard with high burnout and depression, I can’t be super serious all the time. So, I have stayed single after my marriage because it was always “you think you know everything” variants any time I engaged in logic. I don’t want to be run down by people who are supposed to care. I haven’t read classics that often because I simply find them way less interesting than watching JJK. So it’s like being trapped in this space of super serious or super aggrieved potential mates, and as I’m getting older…dying alone is my only sane option.
Omg I feel that.
Man, I don’t get people’s obsession with classics. I’ve tried them and outside of a bit of Mark Twain, I just haven’t enjoyed them.
I get it to some extent.It is a very different experience to read literature that’s aimed at a well-read, educated cohort rather than a society with a 6th grade reading level. So if people like reading in that way it’s…fine. But making it a litmus test/personality is just a bit absurd. If that was the test I’m surely a fool.
Hopefully in 10 years, he will read this and cringe, although it sounds like he’s actively driving away people who think differently and would call him out on his bullshit to help him grow as a person, so maybe not.
You wrote Cellini twice, idiot.
Maybe it’s like Dumas…
That’s a literary technique called “anaphora”, or in layman terms, “repeating shit”, it’s a highly advanced technique used to emphasize the importance of something, his use of it is actually a demonstration of how much of a big brain smart boy he is
/j
We like Cellini.
Charming…
Why Cellini twice? Also, this guy sounds like a real douche canoe
Cellini underwent mitosisini.
Cellini so important that it’s listed twice.
Cellini so important I never heard of it in my life.
Maybe, it’s his reminder to drink some Grappa while reading.
I just looked the name up in Wikipedia and found a sculptor with that name. Wild story, talented artist though.
and his autobiography, which has been described as "one of the most important documents of the 16th century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benvenuto_Cellini
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4028
Oh! He’s the one that did the Perseus sculpture that gave me nightmares when I was six. That’s neat.
Now I am honor-bound to read this. I’ll let you know how it goes. Thanks!
Pathetic. I don’t even talk to people who haven’t read Cellini’s complete works at least thrice.
Only thrice! Percieve the barbarian. Ho ho ho.
Cool for him that he has a special interest
Making lists
Cellining it twice
Why did they date him in the first place?
In a date, people get to know one-another more intimately through discussion of their interests and beliefs - better than they can through brief social encounters that may have led to the date.
Fair, I took “date” to mean “be in a relationship with”
Ugh these guys were always douches
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: don’t be like this guy
I see “Blake” in the list and my first thought is “Blake Lively”
“dante”. ya, cool. when’s the prime coming out?
Meanwhile, I imagine the actual historians and scholars who study and teach of the classical world professionally rarely feel the need to drop lists like this.
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They probably have more insightful conversations avoiding these specific *phers.
If there is no “Dick and Jane” school primer on the list then that guy is a posturing phony!
I’m sorry do we have medieval Italian political satirists on the table for basic conversion? the crazy thing is, I’ve read books by all the individuals mentioned, and most of it is very old, and very specific to it’s time, and largely entertainment. this is like someone 500 years from now saying they can’t hold a conversation with someone if they don’t have a deep familiaity with the deeper meanings of The Simpsons and Family Guy and how they impacted society.
Tf is “woman with advanced degrees”
I assume a PhD or maybe even a bachelor’s in something other than psychology.
I’m assuming masters and doctorate
pipe alert
