Andreas Pum

Finding weights and measures in cracks between cracks.

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@kudera It's probably the easiest of the four to get into. Plus you can cheat by watching the Fassbinder film adaptation.

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@deepundersky Insert Animal Farm into 1984, like it's something Winston might read -- when you sense he could really do with some reading material.

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@DefendNoWave @FogbrainArts Van Morrison says what?

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@lesliedouglasx What does it mean to be "too Welsh" to write seriously?

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@NewPopLit Proust isn't reducible to furnishings and manners, but you knew that.

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@DanielGalef The lizard always jilted.

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@maiamindel And Shakespeare's influence on Gotha was immense!

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@AmericanGwyn Please refine by distinguishing between the Homers of the Iliad and the Odyssey (because they are not the same).

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@tropicalcamatte The Homer Simpson of Nathanael West's proto-Ballardian novel, The Day of the Locust (as performed by Donald Sutherland in the film)?

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@CGVowles @BamaExpat And where would Borges be, even?

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@PhiloCrocodile America's Shakespeare is Shakespeare. Shakespeare's Homer was ... translated by George Chapman.

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@SDDonovan At very different ages ... Ivan Vladislavic and John Ryan.

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@incastellated I would assume you're in a minority, but who knows.

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@CGVowles @BamaExpat Foundational to modern poetry and popular horror, fantasy and detective fiction.

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@Plough @fxxfy For my money, it has to be Poe, who exerted a disproportionate influence on popular (horror, fantasy, detective fiction) and high culture (a direct line of poetry from Baudelaire to Eliot). Most people know at least a line from The Raven (a poem honoured in The Simpsons!).

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@nguyenhdi For my money, it has to be Poe, who exerted a disproportionate influence on popular (horror, fantasy, detective fiction) and high culture (a direct line of poetry from Baudelaire to Eliot). Most people know at least a line from The Raven (a poem honoured in The Simpsons!).

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@AndreaAmati9 @wrowclif But you can eat the strangers.

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@PhilKlay Poe is the star. Begat Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, thence Eliot, and (via a commodius vicus of recirculation) Dylan.

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@PhilKlay @ZMBennett Aristophanes perhaps.

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@jasonwblakely Poe begat French symbolism...