Gideon Culman

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@JaycelAdkins @Indianlitwitch I read this with my oldest when he was in first grade. Even he quickly picked up on how formulaic and repetitive it was. Which may require a more esoteric approach to reading it.

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@JaycelAdkins This is the least of what you’ll encounter.

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@NedBertz @NZaidka @AmitMajmudar @JaycelAdkins Came to say the same thing. This is fun and creative. And the emphasis on things looking like lotuses echoes the unabridged Ramayana.

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@RobGeorge What about “The Jean Genie” vs “Blockbuster!”?

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@e_koumori @arnoediad @airkatakana What about Cao Cao?

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@mattyglesias This weekend Hardy Middle School is staging West Side Story.

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@wmata Spotted: Abandoned bag under seat on Metro car 7140.

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@mattyglesias Still missing the Tannhäuser Gate drive through.

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@IPAzRGR8 @RobGeorge Thank you. I just learned that SGs were not always SGs.

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@zenahitz Keep winnowing fans dry.

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@zenahitz The ostracism of Hyperbolus was a beneficial use of the Athenian system. Cruddy enough?

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@Red_Grimgrin @W_T_Han Jia Zheng sure takes everything in stride at the end for someone who was as high-strung as he was at the beginning, with no evidence of character change in between.

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@Red_Grimgrin @W_T_Han Those that survive the staggering volumes 4-5 bodycount all live happily ever after.

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@nguyenhdi I recently took my 10-yo to sit in on a class at @stjohnscollege. We spoke to the tutor afterwards, who offered this advice: “Never read a book for the first time. Always read a book for the first time.”

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Soul balm on the perfect Saturday: @CatherineProj x @stjohnscollege Graduate Institute seminars on Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound.💎⛓️🦅

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@nguyenhdi Oh, no way. Sei Shonagon, Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Murasaki Shikibu, whoever wrote 金瓶梅, Plutarch, Shakespeare, and I could go on and on. Cao Xueqin just looms large in my mind right now.

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@mattyglesias What’s his relationship to time?

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@MajorsBruc34400 By scheduling reading groups that meet mid-day ET, I’ve often ended up with numerous participants from Europe, Africa, and Asia.