Benjamin Robert Goodman

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Benjamin Robert Goodman

@B_Goodness

A truer tweet was never tweeted.

Florida, USA Katılım Haziran 2011
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Benjamin Robert Goodman
Benjamin Robert Goodman@B_Goodness·
If it’s true that God is humanized by us, is it also true that he’s humanized by me in a way that can only be wrought by me? God cannot be God without me, because God cannot be God until he’s God of all and in all? (And I, humble knave that I am, am counted among the all.)
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Benjamin Robert Goodman@B_Goodness·
“Emily Wilson’s translation is bad, and here’s why!” “If I read it, can I still enjoy the story?” “Yea.” “Then leave me alone, please. Go away. Go bother someone else.”
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This bluegrass cover of this Blink 182 song is absolutely immaculate. Go listen to it.
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Nick Freiling
Nick Freiling@NickFreiling·
@B_Goodness It's funny when health obsession turns around and makes someone a snowflake in this way. I'm sure the guy is healthier than me, but to be so consciously affected by a few glasses of wine makes the whole health "optimization" game seem very much not worth it!
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sententiae antiquae
sententiae antiquae@sentantiq·
just to sum up, 5 points on the rancor over nolan's #odyssey cast 1. Epic is myth and fantasy, not history. these are not real people, they are part of stories 2. The terms used to describe heroes within epic are ambiguous and flexible and change over time
sententiae antiquae@sentantiq

One final thread on why the gender, race, appearance of actors in the #Odyssey shouldn’t matter, and, moreover, why appearances are more complicated in this epic than any other

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sententiae antiquae@sentantiq·
the odyssey casting debate can be reduced to this: some people want to say that anyone can be cast to play the roles in the Odyssey others say only certain kinds of people can (white people) and then they argue that the first group is insisting the same kind of thing they are
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sententiae antiquae@sentantiq·
All those debating, anticipating, or considering hating Nolan's #Odyssey, get ready for the movie by reading the poem (in the Greek or any translation) Some things to read! @OxUniPress released the Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey this year global.oup.com/academic/produ…
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kevin o'brien chang@kevinobriencha1·
@Thinkwert Part of Moby Dick takes place off male only ship Including the memorable 'Delight is to him' sermon in ship like church Every truly great book I've read has some female focus Helen Beatrice Ophelia Dulcinea Sonya Natasha Grushenka Nastasya Anna MD lacks a woman's touch
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Thinkwert@Thinkwert·
Three observations on Moby Dick, after re-reading it for the first time in thirty years. 1. Moby Dick is easy to read. Melville doesn’t use many fancy words. Yes, he uses unfamiliar sailing and whaler terminology, but it isn’t cumbersome. He uses everyday vocabulary.
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@sentantiq What about the casting of Helen, from the perspective of any ancient reader of the epic? Would they be as upset as people insist on being today about her race? Is race, in any way, even relevant to the epic?
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sententiae antiquae@sentantiq·
What in the iliad or the Odyssey should we fight about today?
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@therealnche @RidingTheTiger1 Achilles may care about his legacy among the living, but the text gives no indication of that; he would be happy to forego it if it meant escaping oblivion, if it meant being himself again. When he walks off and leaves Odysseus, he is not proud of himself, he’s proud of his son.
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@therealnche @RidingTheTiger1 (1) has never been debated, and is trivially true; as for (2) I would amend: Achilles cannot care about himself among the dead, for there is no ‘self’ among those teeming masses.
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Blue Jude 🇻🇦☦️
Blue Jude 🇻🇦☦️@RidingTheTiger1·
Achilles in the underworld (in the Odyssey) laments his choice to chase glory rather than the quiet, peaceful family life. Like Homer literally spells it out several times that Achilles is not to be emulated and that the Iliad is a critique of bronze age master morality
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sorry folks. Achilles and Odysseus are not role models, they are epic heroes. Each epic starts by specifying their destructiveness to their communities. Iliad: Achilles's rage sends myriad Achaeans to their doom Odyssey: Odysseus tried to bring his men home and failed

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@therealnche @RidingTheTiger1 Notice here we can maintain that Achilles is interested in kleos, he has not forgotten it—kleos just cannot mean anything to him anymore; it is useless for Odysseus to praise him. What matters is kleos for his family, for kleos is valuable for the living (and the living only).
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