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Old 12-16-2009, 05:41 PM   #61
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Old 12-16-2009, 05:42 PM   #62
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Old 12-16-2009, 05:46 PM   #63
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Old 12-16-2009, 05:55 PM   #64
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Homer's "Iliad".
Hmmm, reading that right now. I àm thinking of just skipping the rest of the Iliad to be able to continue with the more imaginative Odyssey (judging from translations, I must admit). The Iliad, with all its battle descriptions, just makes my stomach turn sometimes. Really. Bad.
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Old 12-16-2009, 06:21 PM   #65
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Hmmm, reading that right now. I àm thinking of just skipping the rest of the Iliad to be able to continue with the more imaginative Odyssey (judging from translations, I must admit). The Iliad, with all its battle descriptions, just makes my stomach turn sometimes. Really. Bad.
I'm reading the Odyssey, go figure (for a class, in Greek)! Well, if you do decide to skip the rest of the Iliad, might I suggest that you read the 24th (last) book before you give up on it? It always gets me crying, and it is one of the most touching pieces of lit I have ever read without being overly sentimental. Maybe a different translation might work out better for you?
p.s. I'm not crazy about battle descriptions either, I usually sort of fast-track through them in books, so I get where you are coming from!
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Old 12-17-2009, 12:54 AM   #67
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That book would be "Alice in Wonderland". Of course after reading it they might just decide to terminate us so like that the madness doesn't spread. : )
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Old 12-17-2009, 01:10 AM   #68
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I would either give them The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge (because good poetry really describes man better), or Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics.
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Then I would force the aliens to read that crap that we Moderators have to read before banning them.

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I thought the idea was to educate the Aliens so that they would understand that humans are decent folks. Not give them cause to decide we are a race of utter morons and wipe us out?
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And that's one very good reason to never be a moderator.

They are kinda like aliens anyway, right?
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Is that "educate" or "mislead"?
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