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Patrick Jehle
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@JoyceCarolOates I wonder if something like Christopher Logue’s version of the Iliad would work on screen. His version is something like Julie Taymor’s version of Titus Andronicus—anachronistic, highly stylized. He also does amazing work conveying how violent, cruel, and insane the gods can be.
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what a dreary reductionist summary of The Odyssey!
(unless it's a parody?). (like so much on Twitter.)
but it's true, no cinematic rendering of The Odyssey could communicate the degree to which the so-called gods meddled in human lives, at least in Homer's poem; they are a braying, brawling bunch, a dysfunctional god-family, feuding with one another & cruelly involving mortals in their nonsensical doings.
how strange, the Greeks professed to "believe" in a bunch of silly squabbling gods when among them, surely, at least in Socrates' time, there were outstanding human beings far more intelligent, noble-minded & worthy than the gods.
Bret van den Brink@BretVDB
“The humbled holding-firm in obedience to the invisible will of the gods is the chief theme in the Odyssey.” —Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Realm of Metaphysics in Antiquity
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@gracecthdralprk At this angle the Tristero horn looks like a hanged woman. I do think there’s something to the speculation that the men in black who appear in the end are a call back (or maybe not!) to the assassins in The Courier’s Tragedy, who are also dressed all in black.
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I started out hating it, but it grew on me. He is a prose stylist that pisses me off to read because I’ll never be that good at writing. The central conspiracy is nonsense but enthralling. I dislike his Mad Magazine, Harvard Lampoon prep school humor and unseriousness, not for me
Grace Cathedral Park@gracecthdralprk
Gave me a deeper appreciation for Trotsky. Lenin comes off poorly personally, though a much more level-headed and admirable figure post-revolution. A downer ending, with Trotsky getting into some truly far afield theoretical debates he comes off poorly in. A sorcerer’s apprentice
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@LivyAlexFan If she can spit on her body, she can eat shit
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@conor64 me and my weird rich friends won an amount of money that means nothing to us using a trick I won’t tell you even though it could vastly improve you life, hope you like my story 🤗
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@WajahatAli But it was in Turkey so it was prolly the tryptophan
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He is dying, like McConnell, who is actually dead.
DonkConnects ♻️™@donkoclock
BREAKING - Trump falls asleep AGAIN in Turkey.😴 What happened to not being an embarrassment...
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@AyoCaesar Kind of funny that Graham is now DeNiro’s age when he did Heat.
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@bobblack1 @mooninabucket PS I simply cannot believe that Gilbert Sorrentino’s son thinks “experimenting” isn’t fun
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@bobblack1 @mooninabucket This angry mob I just assembled to make an assault on Take Review is gonna be fuckin PISSED now, Bob, thanks
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This is a sad day. I will not unfollow or cease to be friends with anyone who uses AI for what I consider to be legitimate reasons - for example, physical/mental limitations combined with a lack of support or resources. But there is no reason for Yale Review to do this… 1/5🧵
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@bobblack1 @Teaweave The Red Dwarf in that collection is good. They made a film of it in the 90s, I believe, that was decent (as I recall). It’s about a homicidal little person 😊
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@Teaweave i love Tournier...though i have never read his short stories...
shameful, the industry over emphasizes, almost fetishisizes , contemporary lit, and the same for many writers i see....
the odious emphasis on selling and marketing the contemporay writers to the loss of dead
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@bobblack1 Oh yeah: Corrosive Sublimate, The Orangery. No one throws me into immediate hysterics like tha god Gilbert. Reading Blue Pastoral triggers serious respiratory crises for me. Proud to say he’s from my neighborhood in Brooklyn, the only notable writer to hail from Bay Ridge.
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The Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things
Mulligan Stew
Aberration of Starlight
Blue Pastoral
Red the Fiend
bob black@bobblack1
easy 5 GREAT American Novels Wittgenstein's Mistress Reader's Block Dalkey This Is Not a Novel Vanishing Point The Last Novel published by: @Dalkey_Archive and @CounterpointLLC
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@UkieDanya @HatsOffff Hypocritical how? I did not collaborate at any point with Nazis. Does “support for the retreating Germany Army” in 1944 not constitute “collaboration” or “getting something out of them”?
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@PatrickJehle1 @HatsOffff They were released because Germans thought they could get something out of them. They didn’t.
Very hypocritical criticism considering most of their actions came in 1939-1941. Exactly time frame when USSR was collaborating with Nazi Germany to a much greater degree
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@UkieDanya @HatsOffff seems like they got special treatment by being let out? which Nazis are not exactly known for doing? which suggests they were locked up for relentlessly pursuing the independence question? and gee, I wonder why they kept collaborating after being put in camps?
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@PatrickJehle1 @HatsOffff Both Bandera and Melnyk were put in camps by the Nazis yet somehow they are the same
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@grok @ReipusT @georgegalloway @elonmusk He didn’t just cooperate with them “initially.” He cooperated until the bitter end, even after imprisonment in a concentration camp, the only problem for him being the Nazi’s opposition to Ukrainian independence.
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Yes, President Zelensky attended the recent reburial of Andriy Melnyk (OUN leader) and his wife at Ukraine's National Military Memorial Cemetery near Kyiv, with full military honors. Melnyk was a 20th-century Ukrainian nationalist whose OUN faction initially cooperated with Nazi Germany in 1941 hoping for independence from the Soviets, before later clashes. His legacy includes serious accusations of involvement in WWII-era violence against Poles and Jews, but Ukrainian officials frame it as restoring historical memory of anti-Soviet figures. The "neo-Nazi state" label is a subjective interpretation of this event.
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No room for doubt: Ukraine is a neo-Nazi state. Suppress this if you like @elonmusk It won’t change this fact.
HatsOff@HatsOffff
Zelensky just showed up for the reburial of Andrey Melnyk, a Nazi collaborator whose legacy involves killing Jews and Poles during World War II
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@JoyceCarolOates Do you agree with Stendhal that writing quickly helps prevent writers from lying to themselves or the reader?
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@drchrisisfree @JoyceCarolOates It’s insane! Apparently, the aesthetic sensibilities are the last to go. He couldn’t talk but he could paint. (Though I believe caretakers made color choices.) Similarly, Tony Bennett could sing songs as soon as he heard the music but couldn’t string two sentences together.
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@PatrickJehle1 @JoyceCarolOates Yes, he had Alzheimer’s. So it WAS WdeK that I was thinking of, but it seems that it was an apocryphal story.
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it was commonly known that the National Book Award winner & onetime PEN president Jerzy Kosinski had hired young writers, one of them Paul Auster, to "translate" his awkward English into readable English, in prose that was subsequently much acclaimed.
Jerome Charyn has written about the Kosinski phenomenon, most winningly.
iamamishTV@IamamishTv
@JoyceCarolOates I had a friend in school who told me that the other students from his country had informal cheating networks, and it was common to hire other people to take classes for you. I was shocked by the level of corruption. I also saw this when interviewing potential developers.
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@drchrisisfree @JoyceCarolOates No; according to his biographers, he painted them but his caretakers decided when the paintings were “done.”
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@JoyceCarolOates Was it De Kooning whose assistants painted most of his late work?
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