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This is how reading is supposed to go. It was sometime around the year 141 ad that Junius rooster kiss gave Marcus Aurelius a gift in addition to all the things he would teach this young future Emperor about character about truthfulness about getting to the point about forgiveness. Marcus would recall most gratefully rooster kisses gift of the remembrances of Epictetus, which he supplied to me out of his own Library.
Well worn this copy must have become as Marcus would say rooster kiss had taught him never to be satisfied with just getting the gist of things he read but encouraged him to read deeply repeatedly and forcefully considering how many times Marcus quotes Epictetus in meditations for memory. It's likely that he treated this copy of discourses like a Bible returning to it time and time again, certainly by the time Marcus died. There must not have been much left of this prized possession.
So well-traveled. It would have been and made of such fragile materials rather than the rich leather volumes. We are used to seeing in private libraries and museums the books of ancient Rome were constructed of Papyrus and wrapped in thick rolls unsuitable for long-term preservation. We can imagine that senecas copies of Zeno client these Christ hippeis and epicurus must have been similarly. Well warn, you must linger among a limited number of Master thinkers in digest their work, so you
As lucilius if you would derive ideas from which shall win firm hold in your mind everywhere means know where he said in the same thing must hold true of men who seek intimate acquaintance with no single author, but visit them in a hasty and hurried manner. There is nothing so officious that it should be helpful while it is being shifted about and in reading of many books is a distraction. That's what we stoics do. We don't just get a book and put it on our Shelf we devour
It we take notes. We fold Pages. We throw it in our backpacks and suitcases when we travel it sits on the front seat of the car in case we have a few minutes. It moves with us from college to our first apartment to our first home and then it's really good. Perhaps one day we'll give it to our own children or to a friend in need as rustic as did books are made to be broken in they are mines to be dug Wells to be drawn from sturdy post to lean on shoulders to cry on just as we never step in the same river twice to paraphrase Marcus.
In heraclitus, we never read the same book the same way. That's why we read and reread note and discuss right and flag. The beatings are books take in the process. It's a beautiful sight. It's a sign they are doing their job. It's evidence of accumulated hours and hopefully much wisdom to it's the highest praise. You can give an author to really engage with the material to make it your own to have a real two-sided conversation. It's been almost four years since the daily Stoke was
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