Eric Spreng

High school English teacher by vocation. Reader, writer, musician. #ibtok

[Eric Spreng @ericspreng]

Oh noooo! In his new verse, Achilles just called out Agamemnon for prizin' "A MINORRRRRR" https://t.co/56LcAy2QXS

#ancientgreeklit #literature #homer #IBDP #aminor #kendrickvsdrake

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I just had a raspberry that made me stop and think

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Schrödinger's bracket 🏀 🐈‍⬛ 💀

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Great quote from French historian Georges Duby for AoK History via Rashid Khalidi’s Hundred Years War on Palestine #IBTOK

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Glad to see @hishamjmatar has a new book out! 🇱🇾

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“…I am interested in how human consciousness is forever modulating, traversing, trying to measure the distance between documentable fact and the firmament of our interiority…That distance is where literature sits: the untranslatable, the unsayable.” —HM https://t.co/NpeTD5p1UL

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T. Rex is the thing with FEATHERS 🦖🤯

(Am reading @SteveBrusatte’s The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs)

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If Jordan Peele directed Jumanji, but got bored and put on Friends. #LeaveTheWorldBehind

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Huxley with a pinch of Orwell

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Sure, you could take an ice bath. Or you could just eat ice cream in the winter.

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lol who did this

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Why doesn’t Benjamin Labatut just write nonfiction?

#reading #book #booklovers #reader

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5 of 5 stars to The (Other) You by Joyce Carol Oates https://t.co/kfiPV7718x

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3 of 5 stars to Everyday Utopia by Kristen R. Ghodsee https://t.co/VtQQE4PvP1

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“Every human society must justify its inequalities: unless reasons for them are found, the whole political and social edifice stands in danger of collapse” —Thomas Piketty

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Favorite short story writers or collections?

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3 of 5 stars to The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu https://t.co/soDfN879E7

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4 of 5 stars to The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin https://t.co/vAwXG19Uir

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4 of 5 stars to If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino https://t.co/gU9xv8zTCw

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5 of 5 stars to The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter https://t.co/1otZUcatOg