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Jun 9
>going to see the odyssey
>order popcorn
>worker asks if I want a themed bucket
>I ask her if it’s Odyssey or Iliad
>she doesn’t understand
> I pull out a chart explaining what is Odyssey and what is Iliad
>she laughs, “it’s a good bucket sir”
>get themed bucket
>it’s Iliad
Community note
The Trojan horse is not mentioned in the Iliad, which ends before the sack of Troy. The primary literary tradition for the Trojan horse is the Aeneid.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Ho…
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If I could only read 10 authors for the rest of my life
William Faulkner
Herman Melville
William Shakespeare
James Joyce
Don DeLillo
Thomas Hardy
Cormac McCarthy
Flannery O’Connor
Fyodor Dostoevsky
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jun 7
If I could only read 10 authors for the rest of my life
1 Tolkien
2 PG Wodehouse
3 GK Chesterton
4 Dick Francis
5 Agatha Christie
6 Joseph Ratzinger
7 Shakespeare
8 Victor Hugo
9 Alexandre Dumas
10 Tim Dorsey
I tried to pick authors who wrote a LOT of books 😂
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Five favorite American authors:
William Faulkner
Herman Melville
Don DeLillo
Cormac McCarthy
Flannery O’Connor
May 31
Five favourite American authors:
-Henry James
-Edith Wharton
-Saul Bellow
-Walker Percy
-Toni Morrison
Marilynne Robinson is close to Morrison
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actually, this is quite an accomplishment of Norman Rockwell, an artist seriously underestimated in his time; but better appreciated after the publication of Deborah Solomon's excellent study of Rockwell's work & life. here, the "mere" illustrator has created a most engaging & visually beautiful abstract painting; & his connoisseur is seriously puzzling over it, like much of educated America at that time.
Always a fan of Rockwell’s “The Connoisseur” where the white splash around the man looks as if he ejaculated on the painting. A jab at these “cultured” types, perhaps?
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two titles by Jane Austen & not a single title by Dostoyevsky, Melville, Faulkner, Hemingway, Thomas Mann... suggests we are in the Anglo equivalent of Cloud Cuckoo-Land.
May 16
Toni Morrison is one of the few Americans with the Nobel Prize in Literature. Beloved is an agreed-upon member of the American canon, and a contender for the claim of the Great American Novel. The only reason one could find this choice “absurd” is that it’s by a black author
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May 15
Nomar Garciaparra
That guy rocked.
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Dress Bostonian
Drive Bostonian
Eat Bostonian
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Every Protestant reads the Bible like this.
Apr 17
President Trumps "Spiritual Advisor"
Paula White reveals that she regularly amends the Bible and inserts her own name in there.
She's making it up as she goes along.
Remind you of anyone?
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Apr 16
Happy “Flying Pizza” Day if you’re observing it…
19 years ago today. April 16, 2007, Marathon Day, a fan at Fenway Park chucked a slice of 🍕 at another fan.
It was a custom job.
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MOG THE ZOG
Pope Leo XIV responds to President Trump’s attack: “I have no fear of the Trump administration or speaking out loudly of the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do, what the Church is here to do.”
Follow: @AFpost
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According to Chad and his cohorts on social media.
The Orthodox, Coptics, Catholics, Assyrian COE and many other apostolic Christians are not Christian because they don't subscribe to his gay smoke machine, epileptic disco religion.
But when it's expedient for him. . . .👇
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Netanyahu Warns Trump That Vatican City Is Just One Month Away From A Nuclear Weapon
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Apr 9
Protestants be like I love and worship Jesus Christ but I would never ever ever listen to him over the President 😡
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Ken Griffey Jr
That man could play
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"Our owners in Boston, they've been owners for 10 years. They come in with all these ideas about baseball, but I don't think they love baseball. I think they like baseball. It's revenue, and I know that's their right and their interest because they're owners -- and they're good owners. But they don't love the game. It's still more of a toy or a hobby for them. It's not their blood." -Semiregular reminder that Terry Francona is a remarkably insightful judge of character.
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The real dream team
There’s not really a reason for a bar to stock more than these 3. It covers all your bases succinctly
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Apr 5
“Sell the team” chants can be heard in a quiet Fenway Park
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Apr 3
The original inhabitants already long since replaced by the dregs of Ireland and Italy. Sad
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