tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:939162 Former Epic Cat Shaman pghkitten 2018-04-23T22:11:41Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:939162:591724 2007-05-07T19:23:45Z 2018-04-23T22:11:41Z academic public 0 Okay...so several days ago I unveiled my ambitious plan to continue my lifelong education by reading every single piece of literature that could be considered a Great and Influential Text since the beginning of time. This is obviously going to take a while, because there are a great many Great Works that I've never read...hell, I only ever read <i>Hamlet</i> for the very first time last week, and I expect it to take months or years for me to get through the ancient Mesopotamian and Greek canons alone. So I'm starting out a little less ambitiously, with the list that <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://vent22.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://vent22.livejournal.com/'><b>vent22</b></a></span> posted a few weeks ago. Or at least I'm turning it into a meme and posting it on LJ with the ones I've read marked, so I can see where I stand. <br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://pghkitten.dreamwidth.org/591724.html#cutid1">1,001 books [novels only, apparently] among the ones one should read before dying</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pghkitten&ditemid=591724" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments