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> Well, you may have, but did you understand it? I read
> the Divine Comedy when I was 13 and thought it had
> cool demons and tortures and stuff, but understand it?
> I didn't have the educational background to do so.
Some of it yes, most of it probably not. I did enjoy it. And I thought that I understood it at the time. And any relatively ambitious teenager can read many such works and get a lot out of them. I probably had a better experience of "The Divine Comedy" than you because I had portions of it read to me when I was young by an old man. He was an Italian and also read many of the Cantos in the original. I thought they were horror stories.
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> --- Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> > Also Doug should compare Marx's published writing
> > with Butler's. Even in
> > the most difficult portions of Capital I could read
> > it with enjoyment at age
> > 14.
>
> Mataiotes mataioteton, eipen ho Ekklasiastes,
> mataiotes mataioteton, ta panta mataiotes.
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