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Random and OT fact: First spanish grammar book was called Gramática de la lengua castellana
What Book Are You Reading XV - The Pile Keeps Growing!
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Random and OT fact: First spanish grammar book was called Gramática de la lengua castellana
Antony & Cleopatra is turning out to be quite a slog. It's a good thing I already know how it's supposed to turn out (ie. who ends up dead and who doesn't).
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Ended Babel by R.F. Kuang
Despite of being worst translation I have ever read, it's a book which I have enjoyed a lot, excelent plot with and end that I did not expect. Characters are credible and they develop in a consistent way, it also touches several topics such as several focuses of inequality. 5/5
Started Aporofobia: el rechazo al pobre. Un desafio para la democracia (Aporophobia: reject to the poor. A challenge to democracy) by Adela Cortina
Despite of being worst translation I have ever read, it's a book which I have enjoyed a lot, excelent plot with and end that I did not expect. Characters are credible and they develop in a consistent way, it also touches several topics such as several focuses of inequality. 5/5
Started Aporofobia: el rechazo al pobre. Un desafio para la democracia (Aporophobia: reject to the poor. A challenge to democracy) by Adela Cortina
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Josu
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Never studied greek, what does Euporo mean?
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Literally, "of many means" (aporo is of "no means").Moving through chapter 2 of the Feynman book. Currently it is the start of Feynman's graduate studies, at Princeton. Not as interesting for the time being for me, due to focus on physics/chemistry, but it's also where the title of the book comes from.
About the title, it was a phrase spoken by the wife of the dean of Princeton, to Feynman, and generally meant that he was making a social error (about how he'd have his tea). I suppose the social irregularity aspect is also echoed a bit in the title, although primarily (as is obvious) it refers to his jovial attitude and love of farces/white lies with scientific background.
About the title, it was a phrase spoken by the wife of the dean of Princeton, to Feynman, and generally meant that he was making a social error (about how he'd have his tea). I suppose the social irregularity aspect is also echoed a bit in the title, although primarily (as is obvious) it refers to his jovial attitude and love of farces/white lies with scientific background.
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Rich
I have read about the 20%, atlhoug there are approaches to other kind of hates such as xenophobia or misogyny, I don't think it's going to include hatred to rich.
I recently finished reading One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston, which is 400 pages of mystery, slice of life and sapphic rom-com, about two women who keep meeting each other on the New York subway in 2020, but as one of them was lost in time during the 1970s, can they work out a way to be together?
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Yesterday I finished reading a hardback copy of:
If I Don't Write it, Nobody Else Will
a 2005 autobiography by:
Eric Sykes
who was a script writer, comedian, actor and director.
I can remember seeing him in his TV comedy show with Hattie Jacques.
It had some interesting insights about growing up pre-war in Oldham.
He had a rather strange WW2, but an interesting post war career
It was well worth 50 pence from the council recycling centre.
If I Don't Write it, Nobody Else Will
a 2005 autobiography by:
Eric Sykes
who was a script writer, comedian, actor and director.
I can remember seeing him in his TV comedy show with Hattie Jacques.
It had some interesting insights about growing up pre-war in Oldham.
He had a rather strange WW2, but an interesting post war career
It was well worth 50 pence from the council recycling centre.
I'm closing in on the finish line of Dante's Purgatorio, as translated by Anthony Esolen. Great annotations.
Its author thought that the minotaur had the body of a bull and the head of a man ^^
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Alas, gave up on this 50 pages in (or so). Disappointed in myself, loved the original movie and the new one. Feel so detached from everything except work these days.
Said every fanfic writer, at some point. I've been scouring the fanfic sites to see if anyone's beaten me to the type of story that popped into my head regarding the Merlin TV series. I haven't found anything on the two major sites, so I'm good to go. I may start it in tandem with my continuation of King's Heir for the April session of Camp NaNoWriMo that starts in a week.
I've been thinking of starting a dedicated Dune thread in A&E, which could include reading/re-reading the book as a group and discussing it (or at least answering questions). Actually, there was a DuneFanatics social group, back when we had social groups.
I first tried to read Spivak's book on calculus roughly a year ago, but was immediately humbled by the appearance of this problem in the very first chapter of a 600-pages book!
But today, as I started reading the book again, at least I became able to solve the problem after some annoying first stage of building up. In as few words as I managed it for the time being, for (say) the max(x,y), it can be said that: (my solution in the spoiler)
Now, to think that this appears in the first chapter, as a problem, is rather ominous!
Maybe Spivak's way of implicitly stating he only meant this book for the more committed or just the most ar readers.
Hey @red_elk , you might like this
But today, as I started reading the book again, at least I became able to solve the problem after some annoying first stage of building up. In as few words as I managed it for the time being, for (say) the max(x,y), it can be said that: (my solution in the spoiler)
Spoiler :
Now, to think that this appears in the first chapter, as a problem, is rather ominous!
Maybe Spivak's way of implicitly stating he only meant this book for the more committed or just the most ar readers.Hey @red_elk , you might like this
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Josu
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Ended Aporofobia: el rechazo al pobre. Un desafio para la democracia (Aporophobia: reject to the poor. A challenge to democracy) by Adela Cortina
A few interesting ideas repeated once and again mixed with tons of quotes of philosophers. Could be an article in a newspaper.
Starting Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
A few interesting ideas repeated once and again mixed with tons of quotes of philosophers. Could be an article in a newspaper.
Starting Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
I'm familiar with the author's scholarly work and doubt that. If it's written, it may have been a sort of spoonerism that wasn't caught in editing.
Finished Purgatorio and am going to work on The Shahnameh until Easter, at which point I'll start Paradiso.
I read it on Borges, but here is wiki too:
Though maybe it isn't there in Dante? Though it'd be incongruous if it's there in Virgil but not Dante, when Virgil accompanies Dante in that work.
Minotaur - Wikipedia
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