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Faust The devil convinces a scholar to swap his soul for knowledge and worldly pleasure; scholar discovers it was a bad decision. I wanted so badly to love it. The synopsis is so tantalizing. All my favorite German authors act like Goethe is the greatest of all time. @july even named his company after it. But the actual text was just more than I could handle. You have to grind hard to extract the ideas, even those that aren’t wrapped in allegories. And tracking down all the obscure allusions would require tens, maybe hundreds of hours. It jumps from character to character and fantasy to reality at a head spinning rate. It strikes me as the kind of text you take a four credit seminar on, not the kind of text you’d read like just another book. I’ve read two different translations (separated by a decade or so) and neither one clicked for me. It presumably comes across better in the original German. If you’re going to try it, know what you’re getting into. Not for the faint of heart.

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Flour. Water. Salt. Yeast. Tomato. Garlic. Oregano. Basil. Olive oil. Mozzarella. Parmesan.

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East of Eden For generations, two families interact in California’s Salinas Valley. I read this on @drewcoffman.eth’s strong endorsement. He was spot on. It was one of the best books I’ve ever read. Steinbeck’s a good, naturalistic writer with boundless empathy for his characters, so the whole book feels immediate, authentic, and real. A lot of the sibling relationships are structured around the Cain and Abel motif (by far the best part of the genesis story) in a totally plausible way. Again, feels natural and real but also mythical and eternal. The character development is noteworthy. Most of the characters grapple with moral conundrums, many of them get better at it over time. And the there’s Cathy. One of the greatest satan-incarnate villains in all of literature. Chills just recalling her. Highest strength, highest urgency recommendation. Up there with 100 Years of Solitude on the list of books everyone must read before they die. As captivating as a soap opera, as profound as a myth.

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Damn. Great articulation of an important point Easy to forget or overlook for those among us who are terminally onchain

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I worked as a mover for a couple years, and I agree with the spirit of this but I want to expand the list of eligible fields. Let’s make the list collectively. - school teacher - any job that produces a 2000/day or greater calorie deficit - waiter - door to door sales - military - ESL teacher in a foreign country - miner - carpenter, hvac, plumber, mason, etc. Really anything that absolutely kicks your ass. No one should go straight from school into a cushy email job. What other gigs are we going to qualify for Supreme Commandant Bitfloorsghost’s program? Tell me about the most brutal jobs you all have had

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Me: Create an image of the Farcaster network, based on everything you know about it ChatGPT:

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💭 Come for the Ghiblified images. Stay for the prediction

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Captains Courageous Ultra rich kid rescued from North Atlantic by cod fishermen, forced to work for months, receives enough routine psychological wear and tear to grow into a man. It’s all so optimistic, sincere, well intentioned that I found it easy to forgive the trite parts. Good medicine for kids and tweens. Nearly but not entirely entertaining enough to hold their interest. Read it to your kids if you can, but only if they already love books. Otherwise read whatever they love until you’ve clinched the habit. My boys were neutral to it. Not the kind of thing any adult should read independently.

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Jk I use Awaken and you should follow @duca as he keeps making it better

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https://warpcast.com/7858.eth/0xfca01d45

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“Create an image of what you think I look like, based on everything you know about me.” [I worked with ChatGPT on my crypto taxes]

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Nice spread on today’s farguesser, lots of people had a decent idea but didn’t know exactly

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QT your darkest Ghibli fantasies

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💭 Check out this prediction A pool of 17.20 is strong circumstantial evidence that one of you degenerates wagered 4.20 on the outcome Nice 😎

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💭 Check out my new prediction I will be blocking and reporting anyone who so much as mentions Ch*lula in the comments

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Life Keith Richards tells his story with humor and aplomb. Anyone who’s been successful in the arts for so long or negotiated a fragile contract with substances for so long is going to have an interesting story. As you’d expect, Keith Richards has an interesting story. What you might not expect is how well told it is. He’s smarter, more sensitive, and wiser than I would have guessed. And his ghost writer let Keith’s voice shine through in an authentic way, so the whole thing sounds right. You get stories of boyhood, of the rise to fame, of substance abuse, of and of intra-band drama. And a whole lot of deep love for music. It’s pretty much pitch perfect. Even if you don’t like the man’s music, it’s just a great book. And incredibly, for all that hard living, you get a happy ending. Aside from the occasional fall out of a palm tree or off a bookshelf, he has a nice, fairly mellow life now. He reads a lot, and shouts out the Aubrey-Maturin series, one of my favorites. Can’t miss.

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking [is] the rapture of being alive. Joseph Campbell

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Me liking, recasting, and quoting Dan's nuclear energy posts

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I love @ponder Tips from ~100 predictions: - similar prediction polls appear on a semi regular basis and play out the same way, you can learn the winner and know the likely outcome for next time - if you’re pretty sure there’s a clear winner, and you have the dry powder, throw a bunch of money at it - would you rather die or have a million dollars is low yield. Pennies on $100 best case. Save funds for the polls you think will split 60/40 or 70/30 Feature request: Let me bankroll @bigtone.eth and get a cut of his action

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