>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
>feelsgoodman

be 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

> para2

into

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.

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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