“What you seek you shall never find.
For when the Gods made man,
They kept immortality to themselves.
Fill your belly.
Day and night make merry.
Let Days be full of joy.
Love the child who holds your hand.
Let your wife delight in your embrace.
For these alone are the concerns of man.”
Why do they make us study Hamlet, with his thousand natural shocks, rather than the very reasonable Gilgamesh?
The above is excellent advice for most people I know.
A millennial's musings 
I have been reading Gilgamesh (and Beowulf) for the past 50+ years … hamlet, never.
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Trouble finishing what you start? 😀
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I am still salivating over those house prices…
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Then you should definitely check out Mongolia! You can get a Yurt, 2 horses, 3 slaves and a kidnapped bride for less than the price of a mini! 😀
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I can see why you are successful salesman! [Gets out bank card]
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If we all contribute we can probably buy a whole country – but I call dibs on being Emperor!
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That’s why you are so energetic!
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Read Shakespeare? Bah, I’d rather go fishing with it. http://www.shakespeare-fishing.com/
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That is hilarious. By the way, I tried Draft2Digital, it’s being mean to me
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Oh yeah? Formatting issues? The whole set of extra things you can add or not, get’s confusing, TOC, author’s page, Copyright, etc. If you need help…
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I think it’s because I don’t have the title on my first page!… Oops
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(It is a nice quote, Doc. Sumerians = beer! Mmmm)
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Shakespeare was not one of us.
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Not that I have read Hamlet in its full form, but I had to disagree with you about those lines from the Epic of Gilgamesh, as I have done so here 😉 https://bmhonline.wordpress.com/2018/05/01/the-thing-about-flat-earthing
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I love the ancient literature. It seems even more imaginative than even Startrek :-). One of my all time favorites, substantially later than Gilgmesh however, is Aristophanes’ Lysistrata
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doink.
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