B. Daniel Blatt 🧙♂️ 🇺🇸
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B. Daniel Blatt 🧙♂️ 🇺🇸
@BDanielBlatt
Writer, Man of Ideas. Tolkien geek. Cincinnati native, Williams graduate, U-VA JD, PhD in Mythology
Los Angeles, CA Katılım Ağustos 2014
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I am deeply saddened to share the news of my brother Doug McCain’s sudden passing. He was a truly wonderful, joyful man who supported me throughout my life. He brought humor, fun and great conversation to every room. I will cherish our memories together. Our prayers are with his wife Ashley and children Caroline and Shepp.
McCain Institute@McCainInstitute
We extend our condolences to the McCain family following the passing of Douglas “Doug” Shepp McCain, the eldest son of John McCain. A Navy pilot like his father, Doug will be remembered as a patriot and friend to the many alumni of Sen. McCain’s Institute, campaigns & Senate staff.
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These are all of the books I read in my Great Books classes at Pepperdine. Classical education is a must!
Classic Learning Test@CLT_Exam
A 19-year-old Oxford student in 1900 would have read: — Homer — Virgil — Thucydides — Xenophon — Plato — Aristotle — Sophocles — Horace — Tacitus — Cicero Likely in the original Greek or Latin. Today, many elite graduates struggle to finish a book they weren’t assigned. Why did schools abandon the classics?
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B. Daniel Blatt 🧙♂️ 🇺🇸 retweetledi
Reading the favorite books of your favorite authors is the quickest path to becoming well-read. As a teen I set out to read the works that inspired Lewis & Tolkien, which is how I fell in love with The Faerie Queene, the Arabian Nights, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight and a dozen others. As an artist you have a sacred mission to pass down works you love that are in danger of being forgotten, keeping them alive for the next generation. This is how the great tradition is handed on from one age to the next.
a@cherryshcney
I feel like it’s okay to admit you learn new things or take recommendations from someone you’re a fan of
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Lots of gay men, myself included, are also intrinsically conservative and a natural constituency for moderate conservative parties focussed on a free market economy and stronger borders.
Octavian 🇪🇺@posta_octavian
Opposing gay marriage was/is one of the biggest conservative Ls ever. Legalising it has: - raised the prestige of monogamous long-term marriages among gay men - made being gay less of a clandestine secret culture - integrated gay men as productive members of society with many positive effects So everything conservatives *should* want came from its legalisation, despite it having been something they opposed.
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@BenMyersPoet What a great book… & a delightful read.
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I’ve spent the last two days reading this 399 page masterpiece, so I can cite it in a footnote for an essay I'm writing. Oh, if only X had let me know sooner what a chump I am.
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@DanielCowper You are not alone. I found it a real delight.
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There’s some who disdain Tennyson’s Idylls of the King; recently the great Amit Majmudar condemned it as a fatal bore.
I don’t understand why. I still find it vivid and original, full of charm and poignancy from beginning to end.
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It’s not a closet, but I’m quite proud of my growing Criterion Collection.
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@iosif_lazaridis Really? He excised Nausicaa?! Troubling, very troubling. How much her scenes provide insight into the hero’s humanity
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Nausicaa, is the most important woman, other than Penelope, in the Odyssey; Scheria, the island of the Phaeacians, its most important location other than Ithaca.
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@jpodhoretz Shouldn't Don Quixote be on that list?
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Here is my list of the top ten novels of all time: ANNA KARENINA. WAR AND PEACE. THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV. MIDDLEMARCH. JANE EYRE. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. THE LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET. NOTRE DAME DE PARIS (The Hunchback of Notre Dame). TOM JONES. PERE GORIOT.
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@NormalGayPsych I know Ethel Merman’s birthday — & sometimes celebrate it.
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Tell me you're gay without telling me you're gay.
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@Veritaserum44 It's good that it did. It's a sign that gay men are interested in our masculine development, our maturing into adult men, if you will, at a time when the alphabetized movement seems to be sidelining us.
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I did not expect this to blow up the way it did, holy shit.
𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒔 ⚣@Veritaserum44
As a gay man in his 30s, I’ve noticed something about myself: the older I get, the more masculine and the more homosexual I become.
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@Anton_Leclerc @Veritaserum44 Yes, especially to that wonderful expression, "psychologically integrated".... once so integrated, we have less need to be socially performative, as you put it....
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B. Daniel Blatt 🧙♂️ 🇺🇸 retweetledi
A 19-year-old Oxford student in 1900 would have read:
— Homer
— Virgil
— Thucydides
— Xenophon
— Plato
— Aristotle
— Sophocles
— Horace
— Tacitus
— Cicero
Likely in the original Greek or Latin.
Today, many elite graduates struggle to finish a book they weren’t assigned.
Why did schools abandon the classics?
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B. Daniel Blatt 🧙♂️ 🇺🇸 retweetledi
Am aboard the Pequod ( for the 4th time I think) Moby Dick the second greatest novel ever written and a whole universe of writing to live in .. As an antidote to the flat- footed prose of the media, trailing their stale opinions behind them and the fanatical drivel of the powerful plus the smug certainties of billionaires, rich only in money, nothing beats the great masters of writing. They are our life support, our thread of humanity in a mechanical world . AI will never produce a Melville for there is no data set that could have predicted him.
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Homer, Virgil, Plutarch, Plato, and Aristotle are all superb and far more worth reading than a large majority of recent books.
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The wonderful Robert Fagles translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey have audiobook narrations by Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen and listening to them is every bit as great as you'd think it would be.
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