>be me
>be incredibly based greek philosopher
>chatting with lame nerd math soyjack
>want to write this shit down, pulling some baller quotes and absolutely owning this loser
>nobody has come up with a way to mark that words came from someone else
>fuck.jpg
>idgaf, i'll mark these with an arrow and figure it out later
>forward 3000 years
>people use my arrow everywhere for funny and based stories
>feelsgoodmanbe me
Plato, philosopher extraordinaire
trying to write “The Republic” but keep getting distracted
student Theaetetus shows up
he’s like “hey Plato, when’s the last time you went on a date?”
tfw too busy contemplating the ideal forms to get a real girlfriend
tfw only girl interested in me is Socrates’ cousin who keeps asking about dialectics
”Maybe if you stop talking about cave shadows, girls will like you, bro”
Theaetetus thinks he’s funny
mfw dude has a point
try to go on a date
ask her if she’s ever considered how the soul yearns for true knowledge beyond the physical realm
she asks if I know a guy named Aristotle
apparently, he just talks about practical things, like biology or something
tfw getting ghosted by girls who want literal shadows over my allegorical ones
4chan is actually an exception. While
>on each newline is a standard for quote blocks in ASCII (and adopted by Markdown), 4chan's "greentext" is rarely used to quote someone else. Ironic given that the frontend highlighting it is due to the quotation convention.Also, there are some inconsistencies in the implementation. For example, Reddit will turn
> para1 > para2into
para1
para2
but Lemmy requires the blank lines to start with
>too or the paragraphs go in separate quote blocks. Also, Lemmy requires a space after the>symbol while 4chan doesn't.
/s
Papyrus!??? These Greeks have no taste. I would have used Comic Sans!
why aren't people called Theaetetus anymore?! that would be great
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