Any tips on how tackling this bad boy?

>why would anyone have sex when they can just jerk off to porno?

sex feels better than jacking off to porn, what a terrible analogy. it's also much easier to fuck than it is to learn latin, so there's the whole barrier of entry difference affecting someone's motivation and the opportunity cost factor. not to mention fucking has a purpose if you want to reproduce whereas jacking off doesn't serve that purpose. learning latin serves the same purpose as reading a translation, unless you're a hobbyist in which case why are you concerned with what other people do for fun you sperg? lmao you are a DUMB nigga!

>learning latin serves the same purpose as reading a translation

why read when you can just have someone tell you what the books about?

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>if i greentext it i'm no longer the stupid one
if only it were that easy my peabrained little friend. it's clear you're out of defenses so i'm leaving this thread. i've got an appointment with ur mom's pussy, kid, don't stay up too late

BTFO!!!!

I thought you just said you were leaving the thread?

g-guys pls no fight i just wanna learn how to read this book so i can have some internal validation in my shit life :"(

just read it. use a bookmark but come back to it regularly, get into the habit of reading as much as you can handle in one sitting. do it for me

If you get the NYRB you'll get 95% of the book translated for you, the Penguin will be out in November and I'd assume it will translated in full

Is this book good and does it have philosophical significance or is it just a poetic historical work?

You tell me
>And which is worse, as if discontents and miseries would not come fast enough upon us: homo homini daemon, we maul, persecute, and study how to sting, gall, and vex one another with mutual hatred, abuses, injuries; preying upon and devouring as so many, ravenous birds; and as jugglers, panders, bawds, cozening one another; or raging as wolves, tigers, and devils, we take a delight to torment one another; men are evil, wicked, malicious, treacherous, and naught, not loving one another, or loving themselves, not hospitable, charitable, nor sociable as they ought to be, but counterfeit, dissemblers, ambidexters, all for their own ends, hard-hearted, merciless, pitiless, and to benefit themselves, they care not what mischief they procure to others.

And what is his solution to this?
Or is it just a book explaining why stuff is shit?

>his solution
Be yourself, be honest, and remember it's about the journey, not the destination

>William H.G Ass
:DDDD

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DESTROYED

Keep it near your resting place and read small portions before you go to bed.

Why would you read 1000 pages of outdated medicine? No one gives a fuck if you do or not

it's not actually about medicine. sure, you can get a good idea of the medical theories of his day out of it, but it's really just Burton performing his own therapy for his own melancholy. writing is expressive and helps him work through his illness. he says as much early on.
if you read it all the way through, you'll get deep in the head of one specific 16-17th century scholar