we need to restrict Odyssey review discourse to people who have written the Odyssey
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Brendan O’Kane
Профиль VivelyScrutable Occidental, erstwhile 北漂, quondam translator, Ming/Qing fiction enjoyer, congenital Philadelphian, escaped academic, MLIS aspirant, 鏟屎官 (二等). Cynicism makes you an easy mark. Signal: @bokane.1644. http://www.burninghou.se
the character 纔; also, for different reasons, the character 著.
Sanjay SrivastavaWhat is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?
BROKE: Other timeline has goatees and zeppelins WOKE: Herbert Hoover, beloved humanitarian
Dr. M.A. Davislike a normal person with normal hobbies, I have a favorite Hoover counterfactual and it's this - 1920 Hoover wins the Republican nomination (as he easily might have with the right manager) - a nice, safe conservative from MA (Calvin Coolidge) becomes his VP. Hoover wins in a landslide. /1
you know how sometimes you can feel your own cursed mental ‘In This House’ sign gaining a line
Microplastics Sommelierthis site has the juice
Not since Xuanzang in ‘Journey to the West’ has a translator had to deal with so much irrelevant bullshit
William MossEmily Wilson was on Fresh Air today, and is this the most discourse that has ever been generated by a translator? Paging @bokane.org
George Chapman was calling a critic of his Homer an "envious Windfucker" in the early 17th century
Ash Flanaganlmao no it is not. It just isn't. It is fully within the norm for a negative review where the writer feels strongly. This is Roger Ebert.