Mar 19, 2022·edited·1 reply
maxxi was looking up pushkin and apparently he was taught french first and didnt even speak russian until he was 10+ when he started speaking to the serfs around the house lol
i knew the nobility spoke french over there but to that extent is pretty wild
Many such cases! From Levant by Philip Mansel, describing a member of the upper class of Alexandria in the 1950s: “Like many Alexandrians of his milieu, Muslims as well as Christians, he spoke and wrote perfect French and English, good Italian, some Greek, but only ‘three words of Arabic’ – the Arabic of the kitchen or bars by the port.”
Although I guess this guy didn’t become one of the greats of Arabic literature tbf
Mar 19, 2022Devouring color purple rn
- Mar 21, 2022·1 replyRonin
Many such cases! From Levant by Philip Mansel, describing a member of the upper class of Alexandria in the 1950s: “Like many Alexandrians of his milieu, Muslims as well as Christians, he spoke and wrote perfect French and English, good Italian, some Greek, but only ‘three words of Arabic’ – the Arabic of the kitchen or bars by the port.”
Although I guess this guy didn’t become one of the greats of Arabic literature tbf
i wonder what the rossiyan nationalists think of this today
maybe they consider it just another regrettable western import of peter&catherine but we also know macron and putin stay on the phone more than a long distance couple
- Mar 21, 2022maxx
i wonder what the rossiyan nationalists think of this today
maybe they consider it just another regrettable western import of peter&catherine but we also know macron and putin stay on the phone more than a long distance couple
And by the end of it the royal family were French-speaking Germans, although at least they were Orthodox I imagine it’s seen as generally bad but at least the likes of Pushkin and the Tsars get a pass
Mar 30, 2022Gonna start reading The Tunnel by William H. Gass. Been recommended to me a lot. Read a couple pages yesterday when it got delivered and I am very excited to start reading it.
plants 🌻Apr 5, 2022just started reading The Body Keeps the Score after two different ppl i really respect recommended it
Apr 8, 2022·2 repliesanyone else have trouble sticking to a single book? when it was two books i was fine, but i’m juggling six now and i’m finding it hard to continue any because i’m always pivoting to a new one. feel like i’m making no progress and it’s just super frustrating. and i don’t want to give up on any of them temporarily because i fear i’ll never return. smh
Apr 8, 2022Slurrinanyone else have trouble sticking to a single book? when it was two books i was fine, but i’m juggling six now and i’m finding it hard to continue any because i’m always pivoting to a new one. feel like i’m making no progress and it’s just super frustrating. and i don’t want to give up on any of them temporarily because i fear i’ll never return. smh
yep, starting to avoid it lately
Apr 8, 2022Started Charles Portis' Norwood. Absolutely lovely so far. Very easy and comedic read. Feels like a Coen Brothers movie or something. Makes sense they adapted True Grit.
Apr 15, 2022·1 replyAre there any good books about s***posting
- Apr 15, 2022
Just finished 'And then there were none' by Agatha Christie. Very wild that this was literally called TEN LITTLE HARD R'S at one point
- Apr 15, 2022Slurrin
anyone else have trouble sticking to a single book? when it was two books i was fine, but i’m juggling six now and i’m finding it hard to continue any because i’m always pivoting to a new one. feel like i’m making no progress and it’s just super frustrating. and i don’t want to give up on any of them temporarily because i fear i’ll never return. smh
One book always take my attention eventually. Cannot juggle for the life of me.
Apr 18, 2022need a book that feels like A Written Testimony or Act II
something dreamy
- Apr 18, 2022gbluecheez
Are there any good books about s***posting
my diary desu
- Apr 21, 2022·1 reply
Reading The Tunnel by William H Gass.
Book is gas. A little hard to get into but you’ll slowly start slip between the pages and be transported to his story.
- Apr 21, 2022
Perfume is such a unique book. I don't think I've read anything that zeroes in on the sense of smell throughout the entire book such as this one
- Apr 21, 2022WOOPDEYSCOOP
Reading The Tunnel by William H Gass.
Book is gas. A little hard to get into but you’ll slowly start slip between the pages and be transported to his story.
Who knew Gass would turn out to write gas...
- plants 🌻Apr 27, 2022
reading The Molecule of More and goddam
god
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- Apr 27, 2022·1 reply
Reading The road. Well damn, Cormac
Apr 27, 2022need to find out how to properly get a reading light by my bed but space is tight in my room
Apr 29, 2022Any LoTR heads itt? Was wondering about some lore.
- Apr 29, 2022
Read Charles Portis' Norwood and knew immediately I'm going to read all of his stuff.
Started Ice by Anna Kavan and it's amazing already. Dystopian, scifi, postmodern (?) with its like little dead end segments of devastation and visions. Also started Eichmann Before Jerusalem just because the little I read of Arendt annoyed me and this seems to undermine her most famous work pretty easily.
For fiction next I'll either return to Portis or read this cyberpunk novel The Fortune Fall by Raphael Carter. Maybe The Divine Comedy. Haven't decided. Nonfiction I'll prob dip back into ecology or zoology. Those are fun
Apr 29, 2022B O O K S
- Apr 30, 2022·1 reply
anyone know where I can find this book for free, tried libgen