Pinko Wallace Stevens
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Pinko Wallace Stevens
@PinkoStevens
used to love Proust but living la vie Belacqua/helped me understand I'm probably more of a Kafka
Katılım Şubat 2020
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Who are the Ahmadis of Judaism. Neturei Karta?
Barzakh (برزخ)@Substantial6187
Every religion has its “Ahmadis.” In Buddhism, it’s the Shentong school; in Hinduism, the Arya Samaj; in Christianity, perhaps The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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@intentionalisms I do like that Wilson captures what I take on good scholarly authority to be Homer's simplicity and speed relative to other, more elevated and formal translations
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@intentionalisms The issue is more the insistence on line-for-line translation even as the meter requires a shorter line. This follows the procedure of Ruden's excellent Aeneid from about a decade earlier, but IMO Virgil is stylistically more amenable to this kind of treatment than Homer
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I don’t go here but I do think a lot of discourse about the Wilson translation would be less annoying if online “critics” at least acknowledged the presence of the metric constraint!
Sami Gold@souljagoyteller
You’re telling me the guy who told Polyphemus that he was “no man”….lied?
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@souljagoyteller lots of the other early modern versions that informed KJV can be just as aesthetically compelling while remaining distinct enough (Tyndale, Coverdale, Great, Geneva, etc.) Plus the recent Robert Alter version of the Tanakh is good for the distinct literary qualities of the Hebrew
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@writingenjoyer @bartlebytaco definitely not her most acclaimed book
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@bartlebytaco yep lol. first few grafs i skimmed excerpting her most acclaimed book by far, i'm certain it gets worse
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The "liquid literary fiction" in question
steven@stevenwatts
it is with great regret that I must resign from my position of chair of the olga tokarczuk fan club
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@questionableway Its the State of Quebec, if that goes bankrupt you have bigger issues
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If you trust yourself not to be dumb, the million is much better, especially if the 1k isn't inflation-adjusted
DividendBoomer@BoomerDivvies
An 20-year-old Canadian girl won $1M (tax free in Canada) in the lottery and chose $1,000/week instead of the lump sum. Is this wise or the worst financial decision of her life? What are you doing when this happens to you??
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@intentionalisms I was just genuinely confused is all since I know you you know this stuff
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@PinkoStevens Oh, damn, I was sleep deprived when I replied I guess
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@PinkoStevens The word was “orthogonal”. Orthogonal means perpendicular
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@intentionalisms how is that an antonym of ontological
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@McHogor @WembyCentral Jokic had more assists post-injury than Wemby had all season; Wemby just isn't anything like that kind of playmaker
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@PinkoStevens @WembyCentral Post injury Jokic was playing at about the same level as Wemby offensively, defense should’ve ended that debate entirely
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Jokic really had these people fooled I’m crying
Hoop Central@TheHoopCentral
NBA MVP VOTING RESULTS Shai with 83 (!!!) 1st place votes. 🔥 (via @NBAPR)
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@WembyCentral Feel like this is overcorrecting for Wemby's playoff leap
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@PinkoStevens He had the fortune of people placing him above Wemby when he didn’t deserve that at all
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@WembyCentral I mean yeah it was a genuinely great season that had the misfortune of falling in one of the most stacked years ever
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Parents naming their kid Envy is an absolute aurafarm
Viper 🇻🇦@papistlurker
My wife is flabbergasted by these kid names at this 1st grade recital she's accompanying. Winter, Envy, Solo Do parents forget their kids will be adults someday?!
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@peligrietzer @weltbuch Second worst thing is that only two books are pre 19th century
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@peligrietzer @weltbuch These lists are always fun for pointing out the most outrageous choices; IMO by far the worst thing here is the fact that the only book written in any non-European language is The Vegetarian at #84
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The problem with the Guardian top 100 novels list is that it's bourgeois garbage -- not a single Walter Scott novel?!?!
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