So much disappointment

@UncleVinny

Here is work on the same theme. Written in about 524 AD by an imprisoned former Roman Senator and Consul, Boethius.

He is said to have been a fav philo source for Tolkien, during the years after what was then called the Great War.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Consolation_of_Philosophy

The Consolation of Philosophy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boethius

@f00l yep, de Botton was surely making a reference to that, even though there’s a pretty small group who would recognize it.

Was it Boethius that the goof in A Confederacy of Dunces was obsessed with? I wonder. Alas, we’ll never know!

@UncleVinny

It’s been so long since I read Confederacy. Must re-do. Hadn’t heard about Boethius at the time.

This scene could be considered aTolkien nod to Boethius:

@f00l I’m sure I’d love rereading ACoD, but I’m too whining lazy.

I fell down a marmot hole today on Wikipedia (starting from Boethius) and ended up reading about Menippean Satire…" also evident in Petronius’ Satyricon, especially in the banquet scene “Cena Trimalchionis”, which combines epic form, tragedy, and philosophy with verse and prose…"

Sounds good! But realistically I’m more likely to take another swipe at ACoD or a first bite at Three Men in a Boat, which the library has promised me.

@UncleVinny

The library might have free e- or audio- versions of all those.

Insta-download, just like on audible. If your library has them.

@UncleVinny

On audible, both early and modern Consolation(s)

I already own the audible versions of Confederacy and TMIAB

So recorded versions exist, if you have a hankering for them.

@f00l @UncleVinny Project Gutenberg also has TMIAB (if it’s the one by Jerome) and consolation of philosophy as e- and audio book for free!

@Kessilari @UncleVinny

The free e-book versions will be fine. Free recorded versions are sometimrs another story tho: these are usually recorded by volunteers on home equipment; thru do this or if live for the work and I salute them.

However, the quality can be quite variable. From “quite good” or “excellent” to “unlistenable”.

A commercially recorded audiobook will prob be pretty listenable, and the recording will be of good/excellent quality, tho there are a few exceptions (the ? quality recordings are usually Audiobooks decades years ago, back during the the cassette era; when the book had not been re-recorded)

And sometimes these commercial recordings can be had for free as instant digital downloads from a public library to the library’s player app. The only hassle is usually in going to the library to get the library membership, and a quick into to the software.

@therealjrn If the calendar was an option in our profile settings, those who want it blah blah blah …
Just saying again.

@therealjrn nope, have to click so many days in a row for the calendar to show up now.

@mebisping Oh, man…what a burn…

@therealjrn Don’t get the calendar people bitching again, please?

@sammydog01 the calendar people?

@therealjrn Yes, the calendar people.

@thismyusername Yep, he bit me last week. I clicked on the phone, and it registered, but then my calendar was gone the next day.

@amehzinggrace woo hoo!

@amehzinggrace Don’t count, it’s healthier that way.

@blaineg I have to…they’ve trained me for this for years now…

@amehzinggrace mazel tov!

@cengland0 If I lost my Internet connection for 24 hours, I’d be going somewhere where I could get a connection anyway, as I’d go crazy otherwise.

I’d still keep my streak alive, of course.

@cengland0 @lljk

lljk clicked the meh button 1805 times, 1304 days in a row, with a longest streak of 1304 days in a row.

No pressure there…

@cengland0 Only lost it for an hour or so. I know, I had all day to click it. I could have easily done it on my phone if I had thought about it, so it’s totally on me for not thinking about it until it was too late, by about 10 minutes.

@OldCatLady nope, live in GA

@f00l Just didn’t think of it until it was just past midnight and my internet was back up.

@mike808

/giphy LIKE

@mike808 LOL, I might give a dollar or two for that. Maybe they could offer a mulligan for every year you successfully click in a row, and same thing, they could notate it in the profile as something like this: "clicked the meh button 1899 times, 1213 days in a row, with a longest streak of 1213 days in a row using 1 mulligan to keep their streak going. "

@somf69 Doesn’t that dumb chicken know Christmas trees are green?