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Originally Posted by beppe
If you have time or inclination for it, do read the rhetoric. You can download it from MR or just buy a pocket book. I kept a cheap copy in my rucksack for years. Actually in French. It is very profound without being religious (which would mix in irrational). It has the purpose of training a lawyer or a politician to convince other people or to win a cause, and myself, I do not care at all for these things. In order to do so, among other things, he examines the emotive motors of our opinions ... There are many other things in the book. But just this part makes it a masterpiece, so actual, even if conceived 2300 years ago. They are the first chapters of the second book.
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Thats a good suggestion, thank you. I just need to finish 'Howards End' and read 'the origin of species' and 'Symposion' and take a look at 'a room of ones own' først...
Seriously, its a good idea - but i want to find a good modern danish translation. However good it might be, Im pretty sure Id 'go dead' in an old english one. For ancient texts I think its important to keep the feeling of them fresh, not bogged down by oldfashioned language.