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Or is there a default to older ideas about patronage, wealth, social position? Doff your cap, truckle? These people seem to genuinely believe criticism is a failure of social etiquette.

There has has been a steady trickle of people offering this insane take. Some if it seems to be misogyny. Maybe another strain is people who think art is just about money. Look at how this fellow puts ONE MILLION in all caps like it's an argument.

"spell," "flocked," "intoxicated."

Yep. There is maybe a connection in the way anti-trust politics can metastasize into paranoid right-wing slopulism. But the misogynist left organizer culture that Marisa Kabas' recent piece points to seems like a more compact explanation.

A useful compact manual. It looks like ... medieval latin rendered into jocular German verse? Nice picture at the end, too.

Hi Alissa! My goodness! I hadn't realized this was you. Marty has just jumped into my lap. Most of what I use this thing for is dog posting.

This is where you see that Homer wants to make art, not moral instruction. An epic written around Hector would be dull. We have the evidence of the Aeneid.

Yes. For the plot to work Hector has to be good, given what happens to him.

Am I right in remembering that JS Mill's youthful enthusiasm for Coleridge did not extend to this critique of associationism? I've long been puzzled by the vigor of association psych across the 19th century despite its deep problems, some of which Coleridge nails here.

Run, size comparison man!

I personally am hoping for a third day of Odyssey discourse. Will just unravel some of it tonight when no one’s looking…

The New Palgrave is one I use, and I was happy to do a short thing for it a few years back. More niche ones I use less. Re writing, if you're on top of a topic you're asked to write about, sure. It's a way to be sure good people are cited. But if it's a lot of work, think about your priorities.

Perfect! That's it! That's what it does! You start seeing the world in lurid extremes. You cannot imagine that people who work from different traditions are anything but wicked.

Lydgate, haunted by what he has seen.

A short story of dogs doing things (in a manuscript of 1300 AD). #dogsky

There were early signs in his aggressive atheism.

Who says the arts are dead?

Hers is the most recent translation using plain language so I'm sure it was on the scriptwriter's desk, but ...

He mentioned the first line of her translation, the phrase "complicated man." Is there anything else? Serious question, because I have not followed this until like two days ago. Maybe I'll see the movie this weekend...

Except she does, explicitly, engage with the separate thematic aims of the other work. Like, most of her critiques are about the way Nolan thematizes the story! Engage =/= favor.