Alex Wiebe

Renowned wedding dancer. Oilers. Jesus. Writing. Literature.

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@AmericanGwyn Can’t help but feel that Fosse belongs on this list!

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Romeo! Romeo! Hwȳ eart ðū Romeo ġehāten?
Wiðsac þīnne fæder and forwiern þīnne naman!

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@Kulambq LeGuin! Yes! I know people love her, but I still don’t think she gets enough acclaim.

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@trad_poet (Her short stories are phenomenal as well)

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@trad_poet She didn’t write many novels, mostly short stories, but Flannery O’Connor’s novel ‘The Violent Bear it Away’ is one of the greatest southern gothic novels I’ve ever read.
Desperately underrated.

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@megievalist ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ by Wordsworth is hard to beat as an introductory piece to the form!

Personally, the poems that did it for me were ‘Digging’ and ‘St Francis and the Birds’ by Seamus Heaney, and ‘The Darkling Thrush’ by Thomas Hardy!

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@AustinHockeyYT And 3 game sevens 😭

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@oh_tuntun North Sun was wild! Very good fever dream nautical story.

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@WPGMurat As an Oilers fan who lives in Wpg, I am THRILLED for Stu. One of the most likeable guys I’ve ever cheered for.

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@Andrewnsnyder I believe a little story called, “Leaf by Niggle” provides a great argument. None of our efforts for goodness, beauty, and truth, unfinished though they may be, are wasted. Create! One day your sapling may turn into a great oak.

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@poorbjorn Upstream by Mary Oliver has to be an option!

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@megievalist Piers Plowman***

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@megievalist Pearl is one of the greatest poems of all time! Could I throw in an honourable mention of William Langland (especially Passus 18)?

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@KevinMcCurdy Bless your heart ❤️

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@exhaustdata I’m about three quarters through Europe Central right now. There’s a big debate about who America’s Homer is right now — got a feeling Vollman will enter that conversation at some point. I’ve never read anything like him.

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@Plough @fxxfy Would Whitman or Hawthorne not fit perfectly?

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@Andrewnsnyder I think in addition to this, your ability to properly adapt that man from literature into cinema reveals your ability to properly analyze literature and your capacity for slow and intentional reading.

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@ProducerDrew_ Didn’t think I had any respect to lose for DOPS but sure life finds a way

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@oblatenate I was WAY too old when I found out eggs didn’t have to be hard boiled to oblivion