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quote:An intriguing, previously unknown 13th-century version of a tale featuring Merlin and King Arthur has been discovered in the archives of Bristol central library. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jan/30/undiscovered-merlin-tale-fragments-found-in-bristol-archives
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jan/30/undiscovered-merlin-tale-fragments-found-in-bristol-archives you think it's crazy when some notes or rough manuscript of a 20th century writer turns up, and then this goes and happens. wonder what other random fragments or palimpsests are lost to time. Malory's good yeah? is there a recommended translation in tyool 2019?
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Feb 7, 2019 04:57
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my bony fealty posted:you think it's crazy when some notes or rough manuscript of a 20th century writer turns up, and then this goes and happens. wonder what other random fragments or palimpsests are lost to time. I have you covered https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3617881 vv he's stil kindof a slog though VV Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 11:05 on Feb 7, 2019 |
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Feb 7, 2019 05:04
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you dont need a translation of malory, he's modern english, its just that the spellings are a bit funny
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Feb 7, 2019 05:26
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in my ignorance I assumed it was in French  will pick it up from the library then. Lets make that King Arthur thread active again. Gonna dig up the Arthur tales by John Steinbeck I have somewhere.
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Feb 7, 2019 21:58
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my bony fealty posted:in my ignorance I assumed it was in French You might be thinking of Chretien de Troyes (or, as we hepcats call him, Chris Detroit), who wrote on Arthurian subjects as well. Steinbeck's adaptation is quite good too.
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Feb 7, 2019 22:21
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Has anyone read the Drenai series? Somebody told me I should read it and it sounds awful. Is it awful or good? Can anybody tell me more about it without spoilers?
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Feb 14, 2019 05:07
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Has anyone read the Drenai series? Somebody told me I should read it and it sounds awful. Is it awful or good? Can anybody tell me more about it without spoilers? I read the first book and it didn't at all make me want to read the rest. It was pretty boilerplate and unremarkable, so unless the rest of the series is somehow much more remarkable I can't see myself ever reading it.
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Feb 14, 2019 05:13
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MockingQuantum posted:I read the first book and it didn't at all make me want to read the rest. It was pretty boilerplate and unremarkable, so unless the rest of the series is somehow much more remarkable I can't see myself ever reading it. David Gemmell starts repeating himself pretty quickly, so no. OP: read Legend and if you don't think it's amazing stop reading the series there.
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Feb 14, 2019 05:52
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happy valentines day
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Feb 14, 2019 11:33
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pikachode posted:happy valentines day I wish you and your new boyfriend Ligotti well today
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Feb 14, 2019 15:48
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pikachode posted:happy valentines day For reading today, I recommend the greatest love story ever written: Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song.
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Feb 14, 2019 17:29
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Thanks for the responses about the Drenai series.
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Feb 14, 2019 17:30
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:For reading today, I recommend the greatest love story ever written: Babyfucker
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Feb 14, 2019 19:59
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Is there a TBB discord channel at all?
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Feb 15, 2019 13:47
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i refuse to chat because to chat is to clique and to clique is to seal off the airflow of ideology
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Feb 17, 2019 07:39
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let me remain what i am, a prophet haranguing passersby at random, unaffiliated, unadorned
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Feb 17, 2019 07:40
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you know back in 2006 (i was sixteen) i read a story on fictionpress.com about a man who got advance warning of the zombie apocalypse via somethingawful. it was long before i became a goon and at the time i thought it was stupid, but there have been several actual near-apocalypses since then that i did in fact follow through these forums, and when the big one (thermonuclear war and/or runaway bioweapon) happens i will probably in fact find out about it through these forums, and sometimes i think of that long-deleted fictionpress story (which wasn't very good) and laugh
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Feb 17, 2019 07:42
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my other statement is that leonard cohen, bob dylan and jim croce were a holy trio. croce the convert died young in a collision with a pecan tree, but his love was so deep and so sweet that like a mango in summer it could never survive. if he'd lived to eighty he would have stood on cohen and dylan's divine pedestal. dylan went into hiding young. cohen stayed out in the world but now he's gone. who's going to replace him? who knows
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pikachode posted:you know back in 2006 (i was sixteen) i read a story on fictionpress.com about a man who got advance warning of the zombie apocalypse via somethingawful. it was long before i became a goon and at the time i thought it was stupid, but there have been several actual near-apocalypses since then that i did in fact follow through these forums, and when the big one (thermonuclear war and/or runaway bioweapon) happens i will probably in fact find out about it through these forums, and sometimes i think of that long-deleted fictionpress story (which wasn't very good) and laugh truth is stranger than fiction addendum: but not fan fiction
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Feb 17, 2019 08:58
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i want to be in a clique. can we make a clique & have clique tags. the tags should just say "free botl"
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Feb 17, 2019 17:16
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"How was I supposed to know that the ghostwriters I hired were plagiarizing others' works?" https://twitter.com/CrisSerruya/status/1097861567205593088
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Feb 19, 2019 21:46
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People who learn Latin from standard educational institutions, whats the range of writings they can fully understand? Can they understand latin from the first century BC to the 16th century? Or is it narrow like our english where anything written before the 17th century is mostly unreadable.
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Feb 23, 2019 05:48
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when you study latin you'll study classical latin, but you can generally grasp later medieval latin pretty decently. medieval latin is actually much easier than classical latin, in most cases. there are a lot of reasons for this, but the fact that word order becomes semi-standardized is a big part of it. some of the spellings become a bit wonky and there are some other complications but generally the grammar trends towards simplification. e: also if you can't read anything in english before the 17th century then you're probably dumb, sorry. there's no reason that a modern english speaker couldn't patiently make his way through chaucer, let alone shakespeare or spenser. chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Feb 24, 2019 |
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Feb 23, 2019 06:11
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i tried to read shakespeare's julius caesar, but for mine own part it was Greek to me
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Feb 23, 2019 22:57
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Davros1 posted:"How was I supposed to know that the ghostwriters I hired were plagiarizing others' works?" It is really loving easy to check. Goddamn. Everything I ever apply for has sirens, bells, and whistles screaming about no plagiarizing and it makes me nuts. Just write original poo poo.
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Feb 24, 2019 01:22
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i played a lot of ultima online as a teenager and can speak quite fluent middle english because the most hardcore roleplayers were usually unemployed medieval history majors and it was basically their mother tongue
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Feb 24, 2019 02:03
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oooooooh https://www.facebook.com/bibliothequebnf/posts/10156340700702880 http://classes.bnf.fr/livre/livres/iskandar/index.htm
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Feb 28, 2019 15:06
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There’s a Name of the Rose miniseries on Italian TV. The first episode just aired and John Turturro plays William of Baskerville. The Italian critics say it’s heavily themed around the current Italian political slide into full-on fascism. Hope one of the streaming services picks it up soon since I don’t have RAI at the moment.
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Mar 5, 2019 08:51
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That's fantastic, I would like to see more adaptations of Eco. I recall the 80s movie being serviceable if unremarkable. Give me a big budget Baudolino mini-series. I imagine the man himself would have been ok with a NotR series carrying explicit anti fascist themes. I started The Island of the Day Before yesterday and it's good, mystical in the Eco way.
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What are some good book/literature podcasts?
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Mar 11, 2019 14:41
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Ironic reading or legit reading
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Mar 11, 2019 14:58
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Legit reading. None of that "Let's Read Dumb poo poo For Fun" stuff.
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I’m not a monster for giving up on a book, right? I loved The Shining and was excited to get into Doctor Sleep but I’m just not into it and I’m not reading as much as I did with other books.
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Rolo posted:I’m not a monster for giving up on a book, right? I loved The Shining and was excited to get into Doctor Sleep but I’m just not into it and I’m not reading as much as I did with other books. Life is too short to read bad books/books you aren't into. My enjoyment of books in general has skyrocketed since I gave myself permission to drop books that weren't doing it for me. I know that sounds like a stupid problem to have but I blame the way I was taught lit in junior high/high school (the "decypher these symbols and motifs and themes so you can unlock the book and absorb its One True Interpretation" method). I've read a lot of books that were just a waste of time mostly due to sunk cost fallacy. I'm glad I've gotten over that. That said, there are definitely books out there that are worth the work and reward perseverance, though of course I can't come up with any off the top of my head. protip Doctor Sleep isn't one of them. I enjoyed the book but it's kinda weak overall and is tonally nothing like The Shining. Really the only thing it has in common is Danny Torrance and some spoilery stuff, but I otherwise wouldn't call it a "sequel", either in plot or in spirit. Also it has the classic King problem of the ending just kind of happening, messily
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Rolo posted:I’m not a monster for giving up on a book, right? I loved The Shining and was excited to get into Doctor Sleep but I’m just not into it and I’m not reading as much as I did with other books. Read as thou wilt is the whole of the law if it's not fun for you, it's not fun. It's good to try challenging yourself sometimes but if you're not gonna finish it you're better off switching to a different book you'd actually read instead.
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I'm also much more likely to put a book down temporarily if I'm not in the right mindset for it, especially if the book deserves a little more attention than I can give it. I started reading Rebecca around the holidays and while I was enjoying it, I felt like I was blowing through it a little too quickly purely because I was busy, so I put it down and just started reading it again. I think it was a good choice, and I feel like I'm getting more out of the book now.
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Doctor Sleep sucks, feel free to drop it
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Yeah I don’t mind a book that’s a little work, I loved the Dostoevsky books I’ve read, but reading Stephen King was supposed to be the equivalent of a Taco Bell meal and this one isn’t keeping me entertained. I’m just gonna read something by Vonnegut because he gives me my “easy book” fix and also makes me smile a lot.
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Rolo posted:Yeah I don’t mind a book that’s a little work, I loved the Dostoevsky books I’ve read, but reading Stephen King was supposed to be the equivalent of a Taco Bell meal and this one isn’t keeping me entertained. The later you get into King's output the more the books become him exorcising his substance abuse problems (Doctor Sleep) or fixating on physical issues after getting hit by a car (Dreamcatcher) or reminiscing about how great things used to be back in the day when he was younger (all of them) and all these things tend to make his later books kind of ponderous and hard to enjoy at length. I think he had his best "cheeseburger and fries" kind of books, to use his own terminology, much earlier in his career.
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