ferdinand addis

Slow writer. Connoisseur of failings. Viciously, then, I lock my door.

Rome: Eternal City, out in paperback

[Dr. Alex Zawacki @achillghost]

Lotta guys been using the rusalka in the millpond as a therapist. If you only go in up to your ankles she can’t drown you but she’ll still tell you how tall and handsome you are

[ferdinand addis @ferdieaddis]

@Dennis_W_Wise May I have a copy? Sounds intriguing!

[ferdinand addis @ferdieaddis]

@QiaochuYuan @imperialauditor Yes quite! In a sense, age of slop is a test of the "death of the artist" idea, and a successful one in that it demonstrates that artists never died, but rather have been haunting their art all along. Could we always tell? Maybe not. But we find we miss them when they're gone

[Head of Zeus @HoZ_Books]

#ConquestFerdinandAddis by @ferdieaddis an epic, visceral history of the Romans in Britain, from Caesar's first invasion attempt in 55 BC to the fall of the Roman empire is now available on @NetGalley

Request now: https://t.co/0HOvSYrq1e

[ferdinand addis @ferdieaddis]

@imperialauditor Worth mentioning the third option here: write them yourself badly (they will actually be good and worthwhile!)

An essay, after all, is an attempt!

[ferdinand addis @ferdieaddis]

@imperialauditor @QiaochuYuan But good non fiction is not that! Rather it's the record of a person really grappling with reality, and that makes it precious and alive. It's one of the (myriad) disorders of the podcast age that we've come to think of non fiction primarily in terms of information transfer, imo

[ferdinand addis @ferdieaddis]

@imperialauditor @QiaochuYuan I think not really? Unless, I suppose, the purpose of the writing is really to impart to me some specific knowledge. I wouldn't mind reading, for example, an AI textbook or technical manual (assuming accuracy).

[ferdinand addis @ferdieaddis]

@QiaochuYuan @imperialauditor In a weird way this might make it worse. Depends on your philosophy ofc, but if you go to a piece of writing (as I do!) hoping to have some fleeting contact with the real thoughts and feelings of your fellow man, then better ai prose = bigger disappointment

[ferdinand addis @ferdieaddis]

@imperialauditor @QiaochuYuan People will extremely object to reading through a thing and discovering it's ai at the end imo!

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Thornton Wilder, why you must read fiction

[ferdinand addis @ferdieaddis]

not to pick on this person in particular, but I am perplexed by the apparent absence of what ought to be a firm social consensus that these people should be burned at the stake

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Editing

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Off to yugoslavia

[ferdinand addis @ferdieaddis]

Book already admirably opinionated

[ferdinand addis @ferdieaddis]

@CptHastings1916 Me and my 8yo enjoyed trying to do sketches of various (I think maybe mesopotamian but I forget) figurines, near the Egyptians upstairs. Mostly pleasant because less teeming. Likewise there's never anyone looking at the Greek pots and they're really fun

[ferdinand addis @ferdieaddis]

Context

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@y_inall very long shot but do you have an offprint of your 2020 chapter - New Light on Iron Age Warfare in Britain - that you'd be willing to share? I'm having no luck online or in my library. Very much appreciated if so!