Bennett Voyles

Global business writer and author of Onward, Backward! -or- A Ramble to Santiago

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@CoffeewClassics Also, the Book of Mormon, which he describes somewhere as "chloroform in print."

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@CoffeewClassics I've read that he adored Don Quixote and that it influenced Huckleberry Finn. I'm surprised that didn't make the list. You might also be able to come up with a list of books he hated too -- anything by Fennimore Cooper, for one.

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@ArmandDAngour Venti vidi vici, as they say at Starbucks.

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@ae_stallings First Citizen
Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator.
CINNA THE POET
I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet.
Fourth Citizen
Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses.
.https://t.co/dYqaf7NcVE

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@ArmandDAngour Salmon should throw these people trout.

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@ArmandDAngour Twitter keeps going from bass to worse.

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@hoyer_kat If I remember right, Lincoln had Lee's plantation appropriated and turned into the national cemetery -- a very satisfying punishment.

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@EmilyRCWilson Sing to me, O Muse, of that man of many troubles, Odysseus, skilled in all ways of contending, who wandered far after he helped sack the great city of Troy.

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@shauntranslates I'm not sure but for what it's worth, I think the shell-shape is a scallop, a coquille Saint-Jacques in French, and that leads you straight to Greco-Roman fertility symbolism, Santiago, and a nice bank shot to Iago. (FN is from my book on the Camino de Santiago, Onward, Backward)

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@dchiasso As long as they stick to Shakespeare's novels, I wouldn't worry too much.

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Studying for exams? This paper found the ideal test prep regimen:
🌙Study before bed
🛌Sleep
☀Short review when you wake

In an experiment, long-term retention increased by 50% & it took less time! The key is combining both sleep & interleaved practice. https://t.co/Jnt3VhlK5b

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@KimAtiWagner I think the public reaction would be interesting. I know Twain was shocked by it but I don't know if that was a minority opinion. I would also be interested in how or whether its memory has affected Filipino culture. Good luck!

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@ae_stallings I'm not sure. Dr Johnson and Boswell talk a lot about wrestling with "the black dog."

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@JDHeyman It sounds like Maugham's description still applies -- "a sunny place for shady people"

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@emollick Could you get a second GPT iteration to judge the output of the first, then just send you its favorites?

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@MissAdaDoom @johnmitchinson @unbounders Where's the potion magique when you need it?

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@MaryNorrisTNY On the other hand, if you alternated with question marks, you'd have a dialogue: Glasses? Sunglasses!

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@TrentTelenko Maybe they already know how to shoot and they wanted to learn?

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@juliahobsbawm Try 'Wristband" if you haven't listened to that one. He's still got it: https://t.co/S6bV9qzmiJ

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@JoyceCarolOates We did in Oregon, when I was a kid.