“Still we know how Day the Dyer works, in dims and deeps and dusks and darks.” -FW I’m a part of “…a small lunatic fringe of autohypnotic Joyceans” -Fadiman
why is the entire world ganging up on people who don’t have access to running water, electricity, food, or medicine? are we actually for real right now????
No characters, no plot. Just fragments of random readers discussing The Golden Fruits, a book you don’t get to find out what’s it about. While reading it I felt surrounded by dense fog and kept on pushing forward to gain some clarity, but the fog never broke, and that was lovely.
"American Girl in Italy" (1951) is one of the most iconic photos of all time.
It tells a powerful story and raises big questions: is it a staged scene? were these men harassing the girl?
I'm going to tell you the true story behind this photo 🧵👇
A shrinking number of kids are reading widely and voraciously for fun, @MarshKatherine writes. Part of the blame lies with how the education system has them interact with books.
https://t.co/gG28QloFrc
Seven classics to get to know me:
1. Ulysses
2. Jane Eyre
3. Pride and Prejudice
4. Paradise Lost
5. The Waste Land
6. The Odyssey
7. The Brothers Karamazov
Seven classics to get to know me:
1) Jude the Obscure
2) Pilgrim’s Progress
3) Paradise Lost
4) War and Peace
5) The Optimist’s Daughter
6) Self-Reliance
7) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The most thought provoking read in a very long time. @nkgrock interviews @VishwaAdluri on indology and modern scholarship on the Mahabharata. Via @gargidhote https://t.co/UExlUjsfQP
On the Kurukshetra of scholarship, India has won the #Mahabharata, and reclaimed its civilisation https://t.co/8Mg77aSPOf
My essay in @orfonline on the 50-year-long troika of scholarship that has brought India’s greatest text back to India — do read and share
18 Parvans of Mahabharata offers an academic Introduction to the Incredible Epic.
Based on the monumental “Critical Edition of Mahabharata” published by BORI, this course dives into narration, philosophy, and the psychology of the grand epic.
https://t.co/LNmD0CnYXA
Ulysses has been my favorite novel since I was 21. Of the many people I know who love Ulysses, not one would give anything mentioned here as the reason.
I suppose it does “give the illusion of an education” and is “a job creator,” but those are the least of its selling points.
I’m pretty convinced that all K-12 teachers should have time in their day for reading, researching, and writing in their fields.
We need more scholarship from people who are actually doing the work. But that takes time.