I'm going to start reading tomorrow as soon as I wake up. As much as possible before the day's strawberry hued end. I'll end up reading three books as I progress: Goethe's Faust, Dante's The Divine Comedy, and Chauncer's The Canterbury Tales. They're all long as hell but I really want to finish them all, even if I have to read for the SAT's. Damn, the SAT's are such a waste of time. After reading these three books I'll look for more, maybe look into some Neitzsche stuff just because I've heard so much about him. This is what vacations are for anyways, right? Reading, haha. Although reading off of the computer screen is different than reading a book. To me its gleam distracts me and gives me an unexplainable urge to play games or listen to music. I'll try to make it seem like a school day, that might work. Wake up and start reading at about 7 AM. I hope there are some Red Bull's to help me concentrate, they really help. I'm sure you're like Wtf? Who's Johann Wolfgang von Goethe or Geoffry Chauncer? I was just looking around at some college's academic courses for an English major(not that I want to major in it) and saw Chauncer and John Milton's name in there. So from there I found out some other things and a few hours later here I am writing to you. Here are some aphorisms from Neitzsche "What is Genius? -To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim." ; "Friendship and Marriage. - The best friend will probably get the best wife, because a good marriage is based on talent for friendship." ; "Help yourself, then everyone will help you. Principle of neighbor-love." ; "End and goal. - Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; and yet as long as the melody has not reached its end, it also hasn't reached its goal. A parable."
I'm Off.
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