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Feb 2021
7:09pm, 4 Feb 2021
11,935 posts
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mrs shanksi
I've read Ovid's Metamorphosis
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Feb 2021
7:34pm, 4 Feb 2021
44,803 posts
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LindsD
I laughed at all your responses to my cockroach admission.
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Feb 2021
7:34pm, 4 Feb 2021
44,804 posts
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LindsD
Sounds like a Fall lyric
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Feb 2021
8:55pm, 4 Feb 2021
20,816 posts
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Columba
I think I’ve only read two, - metamorphosis and Hamlet. I started Laurence Sterne a couple of times but didn’t get very far.
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Feb 2021
8:58pm, 4 Feb 2021
20,817 posts
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Columba
Only two female authors on that list. Wonder why.
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Feb 2021
9:51pm, 4 Feb 2021
48,406 posts
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McGoohan
Yup Columba - no Virginia Woolf for example (if they want the founders of postmodernism)
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Feb 2021
9:54pm, 4 Feb 2021
35,430 posts
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Night-owl
I might have to read back again lot of chatter today
I'm reading Elizabeth is missing I think most of you have read it
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Feb 2021
9:59pm, 4 Feb 2021
44,809 posts
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LindsD
I have. I liked it
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Feb 2021
10:01pm, 4 Feb 2021
57,285 posts
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Diogenes
I haven’t.
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Feb 2021
8:44am, 5 Feb 2021
125,034 posts
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GregP
I'm reading The Camel Club. It's very bad, alas.
His features were Middle Eastern, his eyes haunted but also defiant. They were all defiant, Gray had found. When he looked at someone like al-Omari, Gray couldn’t help but think of a Dostoyevsky creation, the displaced outsider, brooding, plotting and methodically stroking a weapon of anarchy. It was the face of a fanatic, of one possessed by a deranged evil. It was the same type of person who’d taken away forever the two people Gray had loved most in the world. Though al-Omari was thousands of miles away in a facility only a very few people even knew existed, the picture and sound were crystal clear thanks to the satellite downlink. Through his headset he asked al-Omari a question in English. The man promptly answered in Arabic and then smiled triumphantly. In flawless Arabic Gray said, “Mr. al-Omari, I am fluent in Arabic and can actually speak it better than you. I know that you lived in England for years and that you speak English better than you do Arabic. I strongly suggest that we communicate in that language so there is absolutely no misunderstanding between us.” Al-Omari’s smile faded, and he sat straighter in his chair.
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Acts of Minor Dissent
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