Novelist (The Last Samurai et al.). Interested in languages, statistics, dataviz. NOT HdW the film curator, who is no longer on X.
Berlin (DE); Vermont (US)
Joined March 2009
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In 2023 I read @LKonstan’s The Last Samurai Reread. No comment re critique, but was shocked by inaccuracies & misrepresentations of publication history, tried to get fixed. @ColumbiaUP won’t make even minor corrections. For those who care about bg: not a reliable source.
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Was it one author, book, or event that propelled Korean literature onto the global stage?
Korean-French translator Choi Mi-kyung and frequent contributors Anton Hur and Deborah Smith consider the question and demand greater autonomy for translators: tinyurl.com/2n3bkudr
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I went to Stephen Squibb's play 'The Suitors of Helen' last night on W. 30th Street. A prequel to the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Orestaia, etc., and a work high comic poetry. Wonderful acting by Jessica Burbank and Addie Guidry especially. You should all go. newyorkdramadepartment.com/
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From a Wittgensteinian perspective the AI consciousness debate is a philosophical nadir for culture. Virtually everything said about AI consciousness represents what Wittgenstein called the metaphysical use of language: words acting like an idling engine, doing no real work. 1/11
People love to be dismissive of @duolingo, but I could understand most of this having done the Duolingo Dutch course back in 2015 (I do get the impression the courses are less helpfully structured now)
Industry celebrates life of 'magnificent co-conspirator' literary agent Simon Trewin thebookseller.com/news/indus…
Mystery solved, the neighbor who has been checking my mail in Berlin was worried because she hadn't heard from me so found my address in Vermont and called the police. Turns out I had overlooked a WhatsApp message from a couple of weeks ago
Odd thing happened last night, police car came to my door around 9, said they had had a call from someone called Paula who was worried about me because we usually emailed but she hadn't heard from me in a long time.
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When the New York Times at last decided to accept the honorific "Ms.," Gloria Steinem had a good line: "I no longer have to be 'Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.'"
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Eh bien sachez qu’en Russie la plupart des gens connaît le prénom et le patronyme des grands auteurs.
Alexandre Sergueïevitch ? Pouchkine.
Anton Pavlovitch ? Tchekhov.
Lev Nikolaevitch ? Tolstoï.
… Mikhaïl Youriévitch ?
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CHECK OUT "How to Create a Flawed Character" by our dear friend (and amazing Berlin artist) @MarsDorian #MarsDorian
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The Iliad and the Odyssey, Greek and English side by side, free.
Click any Greek word for LSJ and Cunliffe. Scene summaries, maps, genealogies, a character network, hexameter scansion.
The digital Landmark Homer that never existed in print.
johnhboyer-sys.github.io/hom…
Fabelhaft!
there’s an Odyssey movie. Love it or hate it, the poem is still better.
I built a free reader for it — Greek with facing English, tap any word for the grammar, every place mapped, the route animated, Flaxman’s engravings. Share and enjoy.
johnhboyer-sys.github.io/hom…
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If you want to dive deeper into the lost works of the Epic Cycle, Malcom Davies wrote the following books collecting the available evidence. You can read all three for free on Harvard’s website. Find the links below:
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THIS. we talked about how stupid sheep are for like 20 mins at my bible study and it was maybe the most profound thing I've ever learned 😂
