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Apr 13, 2023
I think that many of our ideas about what is "modern" are themselves the product of constructed history. The problem I have as a novelist is less that readers expect the characters to be like them, and more that readers expect the characters to be li
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Kate Heartfield
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Dec 29, 2022
I am currently reading the #iliad because I needed a sleep book and wow. Y'all I was not PREPARED. I thought I knew the story of Helen of Troy and wow I did NOT AT ALL. (🧵/n til I get bored)
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Bethany Brookshire
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Nov 11, 2022
Dostoevsky🧵 A literary rockstar at 24 Almost gets executed by a firing squad at 28 Exiled to Siberia Returns to write some of the greatest novels ever In his lesser-known letters and essays, we get a more intimate look at what he loved, hated, f
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Jash Dholani
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Oct 21, 2022
@BrankoMilan Small talk Wang Yanan, who translated Ricardo's Principles into Chinese in 1931.The year before he went to Japan to study, two complete translations of Ricardo's Principles were published, which may have motivated him (with another co-tr
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Sep 12, 2022
So there's a particular quirk of English grammar that I've always found quite endearing: the exocentric verb-noun compound agent noun. It appears in a definite, remarkably narrow period - not more than 150, 200 years - before dying out, leaving load
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