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Elo-Mall Toomet
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Elo-Mall Toomet
@EloMall
PhD candidate at Tartu University: Early Greek religion and societies. Wandering Gods. The Argive plain. Fond of springtime, old songs, books, wine...
Tartu, Estonia Katılım Ekim 2021
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I honestly don't know why the anti-Bombadil crowd even bother when it is obvious that his songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.
Andrew Snyder@Andrewnsnyder
I will judge you based on your opinion of this man.
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@seuIgifilm That's why I can't do dating apps. I hate texting. Barely tolerate it with very good friends. The idea of texting with a stranger is my idea of hell. And people don't seem to understand if you're only interested in making plans to actually meet.
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i know i am completely alone in this opinion but what on earth is the point of texting with someone off a dating app that you have never met beyond making plans to meet irl
machine yearning engineer@confusionm8trix
hey do you want to go out with me? I have no availability until next sunday and I hate texting btw
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@nishanciefendi I mean I'm not expecting everyone to read every book completely etc, but the idea that you could trust the summaries of someone else without checking the sources yourself is just mad. Even if it is a human whose judgement you have reason to trust.
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People who try to normalise using AI for writing keep comparing it to using human research assistants and I feel we've gone through the looking glass to some strange and sinister land.
You mean people seriously let assistants summarise articles and books for them and then base their work on those summaries? Without actually reading the sources themselves? Seriously?
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Spring has made me long for a hyacinth perfume. Any recommendations?
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@SketchesbyBoze I see hopeful signs everywhere lately...young people turning to analogue, to reading old books, writing on paper etc.
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We are in desperate need of a new Romantic movement, a cultural rejection of slop and tech that facilitates cognitive collapse. You need to be reading great books. You need to be shunning intellectual shortcuts. You need to be perpetually pursuing your own education.
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A huge problem in our culture is that you’re seen as an embarrassing loser if you have taste, intellectual standards or take any pride in your work. Journalists brag about using AI. Reading at all is deemed pretentious. We have completely given up on the life of the mind.
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@suzania I'me starting to feel extremely tired of the general idea of ordering everything online...consciously trying to turn to exactly these options - if ordering then straight from publishers, but a trustworthy physical bookstores are the best (even if rare).
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possibly we are going to start seeing ppl ordering directly from publishers again, and depending on well-curated physical bookstores
Rhyne Putman@rhyneputman
This is a weird phenomenon. Many of the top 100 spots in the Christian theology category at Amazon appear to be filled by independently published books ostensibly "written" by "theologians" who don't exist outside of these generic, AI-generated author pages. What is Valorrea?
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Most powerful part of the books for me...Galadriel's lament, the songs to Elbereth, Sam's song in Mordor...they're the essence.
Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸@JerryDunleavy
Hot take: The songs and poems in The Lord of the Rings books are good and should not be skipped over.
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Made a day trip with the family to Powell's, City of Books, and came away with an excellent haul - William Morris, Burne-Jones, Walter Scott, Marcel Proust!
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Elo-Mall Toomet retweetledi
@AntigoneJournal Glad to see someone stand up against the madness.
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What advice can help Classicists thrive in the 21st century? In our latest piece, which was received with rapturous applause at our Antigone celebration this month in Oxford, Solveig Gold sets out the simple rules that will help young scholars stay sane. antigonejournal.com/2026/03/ten-ru…
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@ITattum @SketchesbyBoze Not sure I agree about Dunsany...but that might just be because I love them both :)
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@EloMall @SketchesbyBoze That is a good point.
There is no relationship between Tolkien and Robert E Howard, or , I think Lord Dunsany or E R Eddison. Even Andre Norton seems untouched by him in her post LOTR phase.
The derivative works are another thing entirely.
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I find it annoying when people say Tolkien is the greatest fantasy writer because Tolkien himself would never make such a claim. He would have you reading Beowulf, the Gawain Poet, the Sagas, the Eddas. You love Tolkien's work because he draws on a vast body of older literature.
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