If you could memorize one (1) book flawlessly, what would you choose?
I was personally considering a dictionary, but I am interested in your less autistic conclusions.
If you could memorize one (1) book flawlessly, what would you choose?
I was personally considering a dictionary, but I am interested in your less autistic conclusions.
why would I want to memorize a book?
Moby dick probably
To weld its words to your soul.
the communist manifesto
Finnegans Wake
As much as I appreciate the immediate interest, I was hoping for some elaboration on WHY as well as WHAT. My bad for not being more clear in the OP.
would a book printed by me count?
if so print out every text that could be usefull and compile it into a single book
>Catch-22
>WHY
Don't fucking know, just answering a stupid goddamn question.
because i always want to be able to flawlessly recite it at any time at all costs (if exproprietated)
The Holy Bible
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, user. An endless source of entertainment, from musicality to literary enjoyment. Experiences and teachings.
I've yet to encounter a book with better prose than Moby Dick, so I'd love to be able to have any given passage permanently encoded in my repertoire, available whenever I want.
Sure. The more subtle purpose behind the question though is, "What information is worth memorizing in a modern day with so much freely available information?"
So your answer doesn't do much to narrow it down.
i only want this so i can quote random obscure lines or passages and lend momentary credibility to my essays and / or poems
Seems like something you could do with a little googlefu anyway. I think is closest to the mark when it comes to why you'd do this.
The Bible
my diary, desu
The Qaran
A thesaurus
Pretty much. Every problem would have an answer.
why the fuck would you want to memorize a book? what matter is understanding it, grasping its message.
which dictionary though?
Why read a book if its message can be distilled into a pithy quote? Why not just write the message for people to read instead of the book? Surely that is more time efficient.
Either the Bible, The Imitation of Christ, or The Prophet
I hadn't given it consideration. Perhaps you have an opinion on which dictionary is best?
Some cookbook probably
True understanding almost requires memorization. You think you can truly grasp a book by skimming and speedreading a mere once or twice?
it'd be impossible because i'm not prescriptivist scum
this. NRSV. with the non-canonical books.
if not the Encyclopedia Britannica, if that counts as a singular work
KJV
Dictionary
It would be fun to choose the dictionary and be able to wield a super genius level lexicon but I'd still have to go with The Bible.
It's such an obvious choice, really.
Mahabharata.
Don Quijote
This this this. Oh, and did I mention this?
A book containing all books
The Phenomenology of Spirit.
Poo in loo
infinite jest
Hans Christian Anderson's Fairytales
My diary desu
Paradise Lost desu senpai
Mein Kampf
The book of the new sun.
A- it's full of puzzles that would be easier to solve if I could memorize the whole thing
B- The main character has a perfect memory, so it's rather fitting
Use of Weapons.
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Excellent book my man
Mort à Crédit/Death on Credit.
French actor Fabrice Luchini knows it by heart but then again he recites it almost every night to an audience of sophisticated Parisians.
Guinness Book of World Records 2004
The Lotus Sutra
you mean the bible
I would want this only if I could memorize it in the original German
I speak no German, have never met anyone who speaks German, and live in flyover nowhere America.
I can only imagine the reactions I would get with my instant EIN VOLK EIN REICH diatribes in pure German. I would start a race war lads
probably some really advanced technical book so i could get a fancy job
Now I'm imagining Zakalwe returning to his homeworld, only to find that the Stabarinde was anthropomorphized as part of a popular cartoon show.
And she has Darckense's face.
Hear, Hear!
underrated
A huge Chinese-English dictionary. I just undercut the entire learning process for Chinese characters I would know each flawlessly.
Goethe's Faust
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon
The annalects of Confucius
Napoleon Hill was/is fantastic. His works are a must read imo and it's a damn shame that self-help books aren't discussed around here more often
All 20 pages of The Art of War.
Metro 2033 in English and russian. I could tell tales for hours.
The Holy Bible. Merry Christmas to all my fellow brethren.
That's 12 books dumbass
i'm an OED man myself
the bible duh
You can have a word for what something looks like but not for what it represents.
is this actually good or just genre fiction shit? I want to do some reading in Russian
Thus Spoke Zarathusra
someone just read the last chapter of Fahrenheit 451
The bible
Poetic Edda.
Don Quijote, both parts.