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Great William T. Vollmann interview.

Vollmann being the most interesting writer (and likely person) on the planet.

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England v Democratic Republic of Congo

This song is used in an English film.

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Recent book thread that people should read, in some order:

William Vollmann - A Table for Fortune, Rising Up and Rising Down, Expelled from Eden

Annie Dillard – For The Time Being

Roberto Bolano - 2666

Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian, Suttree, All the Pretty Horses

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Archival footage of Dublin in 1915, capturing the city's streets, trams, horse drawn carriages and people going about their daily lives before the Easter Rising.

Footage: J. Gordon Lewis for British Pathe

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4 Books that I would reccomend

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Books that People should read

Thomas Pynchon – SHADOW TICKET (the greatest living genius. A late career masterpiece. I hope he has one more in him. I'm sure he does.)

Annie Dillard – For The Time Being (profound, timeless, wise)

Kinsella & O’Tuama - An Duanaire, 1600-1900: Poems of the Dispossessed (one of the most important anthologies of irish poetry, maybe the best and in conversation with Bards of Gael and Gall. Every irish person should read this book.)

Cross & Slover - Ancient Irish Tales (partial to Lady Gregory’s too.)

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Books People Should Read

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Books that people should read (no particular order)

Homer – The Iliad and The Odyssey
Ovid – Metamorphosis
Plato – The Republic
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
Aristophanes – Poochigian or Roche trans.
Sappho - Anne Carson trans.
Cattulus
Seneca – Letters from a Stoic