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It doesn't have to be a country that still exists. Tom Send a noteboard - 22/02/2011 05:56:34 AM
Try some Prussian, Austro-Hungarian, Savoyard, Ottoman, Burgundian, Venetian or Neapolitan writers, or go back farther and read some Lycian, Cilician, Seleucid or Ptolemaic writers. Read an author from Axum or Punt or Cyrenaica, or from Akkad or Assyria.

I do not believe that I have read any Austro-Hungarian writers before, and am reading Schnitzler now and will read Kafka (I've never read any Kafka) after that. Austria-Hungary qualifies.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

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Final check up: one week left in January/February's Challenge - 21/02/2011 10:53:56 PM 813 Views
Um - 22/02/2011 12:02:22 AM 545 Views
That sort of challenge actually makes it more difficult for the more well-read readers, I'd think - 22/02/2011 02:48:23 AM 698 Views
Re: Isn't that also the point? To stretch your limits, however far out they might be? - 22/02/2011 04:54:26 AM 850 Views
After a while, it becomes much easier to forget which have been read than to remember which haven't - 22/02/2011 05:07:49 AM 581 Views
Re: And when you do, - 22/02/2011 05:09:08 AM 563 Views
I might - 22/02/2011 05:11:21 AM 690 Views
It doesn't have to be a country that still exists. - 22/02/2011 05:56:34 AM 714 Views
Indeed. *NM* - 22/02/2011 08:00:08 AM 262 Views
Done most of those as well - 22/02/2011 12:15:42 PM 716 Views
Why are you shocked that I've never read Kafka? - 22/02/2011 02:37:07 PM 656 Views
I have that problem - 22/02/2011 02:45:11 PM 616 Views
Only that I take you for one of the few people who are more widely-read than I am, that's all *NM* - 22/02/2011 04:20:35 PM 253 Views
But I can only read 30-40 books a year at a maximum! - 22/02/2011 08:10:14 PM 544 Views
True - 22/02/2011 09:21:12 PM 718 Views
You say that as if you don't read Stanek on purpose. *NM* - 22/02/2011 09:39:46 PM 306 Views
Well... - 22/02/2011 11:15:51 PM 604 Views
Well, there is always - 22/02/2011 02:27:55 PM 751 Views
True - 22/02/2011 04:34:17 PM 698 Views
Re: Yes, but not on purpose for the challenge. *NM* - 22/02/2011 04:40:32 AM 287 Views
Re: Which means no review, Maybe I should write one, I think some people here would like it. *NM* - 22/02/2011 04:55:07 AM 295 Views
You should. *NM* - 22/02/2011 02:45:32 PM 256 Views
Urg ... don't think I'm going to finish. - 22/02/2011 06:10:38 AM 677 Views
Yes - 22/02/2011 10:14:19 AM 669 Views
Already done - 22/02/2011 02:45:37 PM 571 Views
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Damn. - 22/02/2011 04:47:39 PM 591 Views
It was - 22/02/2011 04:55:44 PM 582 Views
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Well, true.... - 22/02/2011 06:57:55 PM 558 Views
Belgium! *NM* - 22/02/2011 07:23:28 PM 279 Views
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Damn. *NM* - 22/02/2011 07:29:20 PM 301 Views
New Zealand.? - 22/02/2011 07:47:08 PM 703 Views
Mr Pip? - 22/02/2011 08:04:38 PM 618 Views
He's a Kiwi? - 22/02/2011 08:20:53 PM 670 Views
Re: Final check up: one week left in January/February's Challenge - 22/02/2011 10:54:16 PM 658 Views
King Lear. - 23/02/2011 04:24:46 PM 700 Views
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I had high hopes for it. - 24/02/2011 11:10:53 AM 793 Views
Yes. Do it! - 24/02/2011 11:13:15 AM 639 Views
Re: I had high hopes for it. - 24/02/2011 11:31:49 AM 981 Views
Guess I'll be reading Lilith. *NM* - 23/02/2011 09:01:36 PM 296 Views

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