> gbog sounds a bit like the main character from Verne's Paris au XXe siècle, a classics scholar who is shunned for searching for timeless truth in a modernist,

> gbog sounds a bit like the main character from Verne's Paris au XXe siècle, a classics scholar who is shunned for searching for timeless truth in a modernist, materialist world that focuses only on technology and business. Search for whatever you want - I couldn't care less. But when you come out saying "I read Kant. Look at you simpletons and your not-real-books" then you deserve a slap. Let me re-iterate, no one is stopping you from reading whatever you want. But when you come out categorizing books as real and non-real based on a handful of old books you read, you are a douchebag. > they are universal and timeless I am neither universal nor timeless and I have a very limited amount of time which I have to invest accordingly. You carry on with your Hamlet, I will carry on with my "To Kill a mockingbird". > and contain deep truths about the human condition that resonate forever And are you assuming these so-called "deep truths" of yours are exclusively found in your 1000 year old obscure books? Care to list me a few of these deep truths? > If Gates had read them early in life, maybe he would not have developed the predatory personality that characterized his business career and Microsoft in general? Armchair theorizing much?