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As you can see above, I have mixed feelings about it. I like the Petersburg stories a lot more.

Looks interesting. How is it?

All of the above I suspect. But I should give it time; I sometimes misjudge a book in its immediate aftermath.

https://i.postimg.cc/G2Kh0c7f/dead-souls-penguin.jpg I really think Penguin have done a disservice to Gogol with this cover. It perfectly aligns with ...

Wouldn't that be the hard problem of the hard problem of consciousness?

Fair

After all these years, this is the treatment I get.

I get the accusation of barbarism, since a barbarian is one who is an outsider, unfamiliar with the rules of the in-group. However, the accusation of ...

https://youtu.be/kA5D6u_7wZ0?si=RZY4YnRQNTeCWCil https://youtu.be/7bVhRib-FyY?si=ukyy4QyEGF4_w3vt https://youtu.be/5UeQNA62FGs?si=UbZ8KNIArhrtc_8h htt...

:blush:

I'm dealing with Thrasymachus, but have been distracted by some novels. I don't know if I'll be posting anything here anyway.

I'm working through the Republic but I'm still on book 1. I read the whole thing in my youth, and again a few weeks ago, but I'm not thinking about bo...

:up: Let us know what you think of it when you're finished.

Feedback, mods, or within the discussion in question. No more in the Shoutbox please.

Yep :grin:

I quite liked the "See," because it enlivened the tone, although you could be right that it doesn't fit. But maybe that's why I liked it, cos it leave...

You should enter the short story competition. But I'm always afraid of making a mistake and not being able to tell if something is made by a human or ...

It's like watching Bob Carolgees dancing to Stereolab.

Cringe is the perfect word.

Did he? I should take a look; normally I ignore his gibberish. :wink:

Is that yours or the bot's?

God I hate the way it writes. I've heard from some quarters (psychologist Paul Bloom and @"Baden" probably) that the bland perfection of LLM-generated...

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71maVnvhf6L._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg Got myself this seven-headed head-shaving beast, and thought it deser...

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol.

https://youtu.be/9DviEyvcshE?si=_DltBCWjkFBBcJkb

Good stuff. I may say more when I've read it again.

@"Amity" My statement that Book 10 is weird is based on my own experience with it, and so far this is a quite vague impression. My comment that some p...

Oh it's soup. "Soup that eats like a meal" But soup already is a meal.

But haggis is a basic staple food to have every night, whereas I imagine for Americans, chili mac is only for special occasions like romantic meals or...

It was a stellar performance so I'll brook no apologies.

I was fooled.

What's that?

Probably micturating powerfully in a forest after having manfully mastered his desires for breakfast.

Not sure what burnt axle grease looks like but I imagine it might look a bit like marmite, which I had on my toast a few minutes ago. But the toast wa...

Agreed.

Great :up:

My kind of gang.

You seem conflicted, TC.

Press and hold the hyphen key and you should get the dash options. Works on my iPad and Google pixel, assume it's on iPhones too.

Definitely.

Et voila: Formula for the Weighted Geographical Center with Recent Activity Weighting: 1. Convert geographical coordinates: - Convert the latitude and...

I'd also want to weight things by recent activity, not just number of posts. Plenty of time to work out the right algorithm.

Drinking again? I like port with cheese. A few weeks ago I went to the party of an old friend of mine. He is a cheeseman to the bone, so I took him so...

Gonna need a boat.

TPF will be 9 years old on October 20. Maybe it's time to start planning the 10th birthday party. First I need to work out where it's going to happen....

Cool. The first and third paragraphs in the mixed up quotation are about that. Here they are in order, with the quotations from the Republic removed: ...

You've mixed up the order of the paragraphs, which is important. Maybe that's why you're confused :grin:

Religion is normally thought to be part of culture. @"schopenhauer1" (and in deference to @"T Clark"): It might be useful to define our terms. Culture...

The "books" of the Republic are the chapters, basically. They all belong together and they're all important, although book 10 is weird and some would ...

I think the problem with applying the idea of literary Easter eggs is that it usually refers to something inessential, a bonus for certain readers. Sy...