i think my iq is too low for this booki struggle to continue
I remember this being my favourite novel when I was like 10 years old, I should reread it.
>>24114061It's literally a Sherlock Holmes story set in a monastery.
>>24114061I shelved it for later. Not a big fiction guy. I like poetry though.
>>24114061>can't read umberto umbertoKiddo, this is not a Gravity's Rainbov for youdo zoomers really?next thing you'll tell me Count of Monte Cristo is too much of a struggle
>>24114061I recommend some Borges short stories, or Calvino's Invisible Cities, easier to get through but of an adjacent vibe.>>24115244Berating zoomers won't help build up their attention span.
>>24114115>Bodies inhabited in every part by the Spirit, illuminated by revelation, faces overcome with amazement, eyes shining with enthusiasm, cheeks flushed with love, pupils dilated with joy: this one thunderstruck by a pleasurable consternation, that one pierced by a consternated pleasure, some transfigured by wonder, some rejuvenated by bliss, there they all were, singing with the expression of their faces, the drapery of their tunics, the position and tension of their limbs, singing a new song, lips parted in a smile of perennial praise. And beneath the feet of the ancients, and arched over them and over the throne and over the tetramorphic group, arranged in symmetrical bands, barely distinguishable one from another because the artist's skill had made them all so mutually proportionate, united in their variety and varied in their unity, unique in their diversity and diverse in their apt assembly, in wondrous congruency of the parts with the delightful sweetness of hues, miracle of consonance and concord of voices among themselves dissimilar, a company arrayed like the strings of the zither, consentient and conspiring continued cognition through deep and interior force suited to perform univocally in the same alternating play of the equivocal, decoration and collage of creatures beyond reduction to vicissitudes and to vicissitudes reduced, work of amorous connecting sustained by a law at once heavenly and worldly (bond and stable nexus of peace, love, virtue, regimen, power, order, origin, life, light, splendor, species, and figure), numerous and resplendent equality through the shining of the form over the proportionate parts of the material—there, all the flowers and leaves and vines and bushes and corymbs were entwined, of all the grasses that adorn the gardens of earth and heaven, violet, cystus, thyme, lily, privet, narcissus, taro, acanthus, mallow, myrrh, and Mecca balsam.op here, tell me how a 10 year old would get this
>>24115249Zoomers are effeminate trash who simply can't be helped. Their retardation is terminal. Gen A will save the world.
>>24114061>i think my iq is too low for this bookmaybe the author should write it in encrypted binary next time to be even more inaccessible/pretentious
>>24114061A lot of these books, from Joyce or Shakespeare, have so many Catholic ecclesial references that reading them as a non-Catholic can add in additional confusion and dictionary time that you wouldn't need if you were in the Faith. Most of Western literature has biblical jokes as well as theological references throughout.
>>24115362wow, this is hot shit
