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"The 9 Circles of Dantean Hell:
The Virtuous Pagans
The Lustful
The Gluttonous
The Prodigal
The Wrathful and Sullen
The Heretical
The Violent
The Fraudulent
The Traitorous
Alternately, the nine lyric poets of Ancient..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
Almost 5 hours ago
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"The Virginia Quarterly Review Writes Down Unexpectedly Clichéd Holdings" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by eritain
11 days ago
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"If it's not him, isn't that libel?
I believe it's fair use. Same goes for Raymond Carver's Advice Column." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by brookedel, Edgewise
11 days ago
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"One thing is for certain: Obama didn't steamroll over McCain, despite the myriad comments and threads recently claiming how inept McCain supposedly is.
Realistically, Obama was never going to unhorse McCain in one debate. Forget everything that's..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jlbartosa, oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
12 days ago
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"Why is virginity lost, rather than given, or broken?
In Shakespeare, virginity is not only lost, but also defeated, cracked, assailed, blown down, and devoured; it murders and consumes itself, "and so dies with feeding his own stomach."..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by vegetableagony, puckish, Powerful Religious Baby, nasreddin
3 weeks ago
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"I just discovered the Bureau the other day. I came for the Rexroth (the above mentioned "Thou Shalt Not Kill," as it happened) and I stayed for The Society of Spectacle and The Situationist International Anthology...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by steef
Last month
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The Apparition of Enoch Soames
favorited 34 times, recently by omegar, misanthropicsarah, drhydro, dejah420, pantufla, RibaldOne, Gable Oak, regicide is good for you, advil, Dr. Zira, ravelite, blogenstock, nudar, gemmy, notashroom, myopicman, jokeefe, Flunkie, Huw, enn, monkeyx-uk, Spacelegoman, Faint of Butt, Haruspex, neilgorman, ornate insect, dd42, Shutter, steef, Cassilda, Blazecock Pileon, LarryC, Rykey, jack_mo
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
""Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a laser lay crossed."" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by hal9k, penduluum
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Thanks, Dahlia! A few extra stories: "The Landlady," "Dip in the Pool," and "Poison" (one of my favorite Dahls, for the beautiful management of suspense).
Dahl also produced a television show called Way Out, a sort..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by vbfg, turgid dahlia
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Any idea which episodes?
"Man from the South" is the famous one - Peter Lorre and a young Steve McQueen negotiating the essential Dahlian grisly twist. "Lamb to the Slaughter," "The Landlady," "Mrs. Bixby and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by turgid dahlia, mudpuppie
2 months ago
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"It wasn't the Spartans who were "all homosexuals" - it was the Sacred Band, an elite Theban strike force. "Plutarch reports that the Sacred Band consisted of homosexual couples...lovers would fight more fiercely and more cohesively at..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Hicksu, rongorongo, zippy
2 months ago
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"In addition to Nemesis (who brings retribution to the proud and overly fortunate) and Eris ("Strife," whose charge is human conflict), I'd pay close attention to the Erinyes (or "Furies"), who are arguably the vengeance gods most..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by stopgap
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Setting the sliders to both "sad" and "nostalgic" triggers ragtime piany music over images of mushroom clouds." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by greenie2600
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Ezra Pound counts down the ten worst movies of 1942 over Italian radio.
Ezra Pound's correspondence with Billy Wilder regarding a film adaptation of "The Aenid."
Ezra Pound can't make it cohere on The Dating..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Huw, shmegegge
5 months ago
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"Interesting. Apparently his conservative grandstanding came relatively late in his life. From Wikipedia:In 1956 Heston campaigned for Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy in 1960. In 1961, in Oklahoma on a publicity tour, he..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Goofyy
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"What strikes me how is how reasonable Hitler comes across in private conversation; there's no salivating mania in that calm, deep voice. It's jarring to hear the devil sound so genial as he makes small talk with his officers' wives, holds forth..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sangermaine
6 months ago
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"Odenkirk = Lennon; Cross = McCartney; and Jill Talley, Tom Kenny, Jay Johnston, and John Ennis add up to some sort of quadruple Harrison." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by scody
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's been touched on before, and should be reiterated. Science consists of
(a): a body of empirically derived theories.
(b): the method (based on the principle of falsification) used to derive those theories.
That's it. It's not a worldview...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Dantien
6 months ago
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"It's just a little outside your time range, but the Cadaver Synod of 897 is a ghoulish bit of fun. Pope Stephen VI exhumed the corpse of the previous pontiff, propped it in a chair, and put it on trial. (Nasreddin's fine MeFi write-up here.)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Elsa
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Star Wars (1962). With Frank Sinatra as Han Solo, David Niven as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Joey Bishop as Chewbacca, Shirley MacLaine as Leia, Norman Fell as Owen Lars, and Peter Lawford as Tarkin. Sammy wanted to play Vader, but Sinatra browbeat him into..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by grubi, deborah, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, sciatica
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Were the five passengers a brain, a beauty, a jock, a criminal, and a basketcase? And, despite their various backgrounds and prejudices, did they come to appreciate each others' perspectives and break free from their preconceptions? Did any of them..." [
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favorited 38 times, recently by iamkimiam, dmd, quin, DevilsAdvocate, kev23f, cadge, bertrandom, FfejL, yonation, ericbop, desjardins, rongorongo, Slack-a-gogo, Dreama, ryanrs, six-or-six-thirty, puritycontrol, rbs, amethysts, inqb8tr, Freon, Talez, Roach, sutel, shinynewnick, brookedel, InnocentBystander, eriko, litlnemo, xthlc, deadmessenger, crawl, East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94, veronitron, Krrrlson, jikel_morten, uaudio, brownpau
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Shadow of the Colossus. Barely a narrative, barely any words even, but an incredibly moving experience to play.
I'd contend that Colossus's success depends on its narrative, on the context that gives meaning to its play. Imagine the game without..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ArmyOfKittens
7 months ago
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"I think that pairing a short first name (Erin counts, I would think) with a longer surname works out well. (Of course, as my own name is ____ ________, that's almost certainly bias speaking.)
If you want to use the rhythm met- excuse me, the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by NekulturnY
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"The false knight… just doesn’t grasp the point that if another individual is to walk the same path he has to be just as much the individual and is therefore in no need of guidance, least of all from one anxious to press his services on others...The..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Miko, By The Grace of God
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh, excuse me - those were Dahl's Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes. Dahl never actually provided any scripts for the Twilight Zone; perhaps Miko was thinking of Way Out, a 1961 Zone rival that Dahl hosted himself.
Since I've already..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by scarylarry
7 months ago
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"If you feel it's worth the effort, work on your shoulder muscles. Building up the deltoids would go a ways towards balancing your silhouette.
Other than that, relax! However you arrived at your bone structure, whether it was through soy milk or..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Forktine, sebastienbailard
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This is how I felt upon my first exposure to the Mountain Goats, which in some circles is pretty close to revered Neutral Milk Hotel status.
Funny you should mention that:
The Mountain Goats -- Two-Headed..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by griphus, monju_bosatsu
7 months ago
MeFi post:
Ich bin im Tod erblüht
favorited 19 times, recently by muymuy, treepour, regicide is good for you, waxbanks, shmegegge, Life at Boulton Wynfevers, Faux Real, MizMadame, LobsterMitten, blisterpack, invitapriore, UbuRoivas, not_on_display, exlotuseater, Greg Nog, muckster, Drab_Parts, moonmilk, inconsequentialist
8 months ago
