If you're able to memorize a book word per word, what would it be?
If you're able to memorize a book word per word, what would it be?
"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's" - Dostoevksy
good thread. I would have to say I would love to be able to remember Lord of the Rings. Shocking I know.
"Who are a little wise
the best fools be." John Donne
If a drop of water falls in lake there is no identity. But if it falls on a leaf of lotus it shine like a pearl. so choose the best place where you would shine..
I'd have to think about it, but a quick answer is the Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Well, to me, if I am able to memorize a word per word. That's becuase I like the writer along with the story or novel.
Like this sentence in "The Death of Ivan Iyllch" by Leo Tolestoy
Ivan's Iyllch's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
I remember this sentence very well. It's a masterpiece and I am very proud that I get used to memorize Leo Tolestoy's words.
The Holy Bible. It would be amazing to remember everything word by word instead of just knowing "well, it's something like this..."
Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was golden as the sun's rays and her soul as clear and blue as her eyes.
Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
Is this tread inspired by “Fahrenheight 451”? I have sometimes asked myself the same thing. I don’t really know. There are so many books I would like to know by heart. May be I will memorize one of Oscar Wild’s work, may be “The picture of Dorian Gray”, or may be “Perfume’ by Patrick Süskind, I really love these novels.
Currently reading:
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
The Dictionary.
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me.
It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
The First Folio.
Por una cabeza
Si ella me olvida
Qué importa perderme
Mil veces la vida
Para qué vivir
Hard Times, possibly the funniest book ever written.
There once was a scotsman named Drew
Who put too much wine in his stew
He felt a bit drunk
And fell off his bunk
And landed smack into his shoe ~(C) Ms Niamh Anne King
First choice; Bible.
Second choice; Lord of the Rings
Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in geardagum,/Þeodcuninga þrum gefrunon,/hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,/ monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,/ egsode eorlas, syððan ærest wearð/ feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,/ weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,/ oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra/ofer hronrade hyran scolde,/gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!
Dante's Divine Comedy. It should be easier with rhymes and actually both Roberto Benigni and my university professor of italian seem to know it by heart. (I can remember just the first few verses of hell and something here and there)
But also the Bible is a good choice.
And Moby Dick
The Magus.
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
What is the inner side of the wind??? - it is the side that is staying dry, while wind is blowing through the rain.
And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And Thou shalt not, writ over the door:
So I turned to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore. - "The Garden of Love", William Blake.