Published On Jun 3, 2021
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Hardcore Literature Lecture Series
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๐Contents Page: https://cutt.ly/CmNhRY3
๐๏ธ War and Peace: https://cutt.ly/U3nzGma
๐ญ Shakespeare Project: https://cutt.ly/B3nxHH7
๐ณ Moby Dick: https://cutt.ly/K3nzVKf
โ๏ธ Blood Meridian: https://cutt.ly/P3nz6Qp
๐ Wuthering Heights: https://cutt.ly/N3nxxYt
๐ฎ๐ช Ulysses: https://cutt.ly/x3nxQmN
๐ Anna Karenina: https://cutt.ly/vmNhAWv
๐ Crime and Punishment: https://cutt.ly/rmNhFt5
โ Persuasion: https://cutt.ly/amNhX7b
โ In Search of Lost Time: https://cutt.ly/5mNh8oD
โ๏ธ The Heroโs Journey: https://cutt.ly/UmNjrE3
๐ธ Siddharta: https://cutt.ly/YmNjuzi
๐ Don Quixote: https://cutt.ly/cmNjoK4
โค๏ธShakespeareโs Sonnets: https://cutt.ly/nmNlW7V
๐ซ๐ท Les Misรฉrables: https://cutt.ly/J3YixoA
๐ฏ๏ธ The Turn of the Screw: https://cutt.ly/nToAQQ3
๐๏ธ Dickens Seasonal Read: https://cutt.ly/9ToAybt
๐ Middlemarch Serial Reading: https://tinyurl.com/45rv965c
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Happy reading!
Let us know your favourite meditation below!
If you would like a recommendation, there are plenty of great translations but I personally prefer the Oxford University Press edition translated by Robin Hard: https://amzn.to/3fN3nbJ / The one you see in the video is the Penguin Great Ideas version translated by Maxwell Staniforth: https://amzn.to/3wV2mUJ
0:00 how to read the Meditations
0:20 reading assignment for you
1:20 who was Marcus Aurelius?
2:30 stoic philosophy (memento mori)
3:20 deep reading principle 1
4:30 deep reading principle 2
6:00 deep reading principle 3
6:20 how to do marginalia
7:00 how to read the Bible
8:40 "Begin each day by telling yourself..."
15:20 "the inescapable is hanging over your head"
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