The second is like masturbation. Simple, cool and great. Especially in adolescence, when an alternative is not yet available. And serious, primary literature (scientific, classical, historical sources) is like sex with an elegant woman. Just astonishing! With miserable feelings from masturbation it is funny even to compare.
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Please provide a list of "primary" literature. Or you will start reading some Lermontov or Shakespeare - and it will prove that similar stories have already been in the Slavic epic, the Nordic edds and the myths of Drifna Greece. And all, consider it memorable.