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...by quoting, off the cuff and without translation or footnotes, a random passage from Dante.

(Also some Italian comrade please translate this for me. I am not on Marx's level).

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Follow your course, and let the people decide

More or less

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mmm imo it is more

Follow your path, and let people talk.

It is a very polite way to say: do what you want and let people talk shit if the wish.

Source: I am italian

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks Albadellanotte and Soviet Snake! It has enabled me to make this absolutely esoteric and unintelligible meme:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fair, I was doing some Spanish reasoning on the Italian text.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like that other Dante line that TS Eliot uses in The Waste Land: Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina / he embraced the fire that refines him. It's a good absurdist maxim for when you're trying to explain to someone that it's fun that you're caught in an alpine hail storm 10 miles from the trailhead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Shantih

Shantih

Shantih

(But this is seriously why people should study classic literature. It lets you connect to ancient wisdom in all kinds of situations -- referring you, as an individual living now, to the whole process of history in an immediate way).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

funny cuz they wouldnt comprehend what he is saying there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"The Great Florentine? Is that like some 70s tv show?"

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