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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 920 Views
Um - 22/02/2011 12:02:22 AM 673 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 822 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 969 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 695 Views
Re: And when you do, - 22/02/2011 05:09:08 AM 677 Views
I might - 22/02/2011 05:11:21 AM 799 Views
It doesn't have to be a country that still exists. - 22/02/2011 05:56:34 AM 837 Views
Indeed. *NM* - 22/02/2011 08:00:08 AM 311 Views
Done most of those as well - 22/02/2011 12:15:42 PM 838 Views
Why are you shocked that I've never read Kafka? - 22/02/2011 02:37:07 PM 773 Views
I have that problem - 22/02/2011 02:45:11 PM 733 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 301 Views
But I can only read 30-40 books a year at a maximum! - 22/02/2011 08:10:14 PM 664 Views
True - 22/02/2011 09:21:12 PM 840 Views
You say that as if you don't read Stanek on purpose. *NM* - 22/02/2011 09:39:46 PM 351 Views
Well... - 22/02/2011 11:15:51 PM 724 Views
Well, there is always - 22/02/2011 02:27:55 PM 872 Views
True - 22/02/2011 04:34:17 PM 822 Views
Re: Yes, but not on purpose for the challenge. *NM* - 22/02/2011 04:40:32 AM 336 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 339 Views
You should. *NM* - 22/02/2011 02:45:32 PM 304 Views
Urg ... don't think I'm going to finish. - 22/02/2011 06:10:38 AM 796 Views
Yes - 22/02/2011 10:14:19 AM 793 Views
Already done - 22/02/2011 02:45:37 PM 678 Views
Re: Already done - 22/02/2011 02:46:18 PM 704 Views
Re: Already done - 22/02/2011 04:46:16 PM 656 Views
Damn. - 22/02/2011 04:47:39 PM 716 Views
It was - 22/02/2011 04:55:44 PM 689 Views
Re: It was - 22/02/2011 04:56:39 PM 679 Views
Well, true.... - 22/02/2011 06:57:55 PM 682 Views
Belgium! *NM* - 22/02/2011 07:23:28 PM 322 Views
Pfft - 22/02/2011 07:28:39 PM 757 Views
Damn. *NM* - 22/02/2011 07:29:20 PM 343 Views
New Zealand.? - 22/02/2011 07:47:08 PM 823 Views
Mr Pip? - 22/02/2011 08:04:38 PM 737 Views
He's a Kiwi? - 22/02/2011 08:20:53 PM 788 Views
Re: Final check up: one week left in January/February's Challenge - 22/02/2011 10:54:16 PM 779 Views
King Lear. - 23/02/2011 04:24:46 PM 819 Views
Re: King Lear. - 23/02/2011 04:42:00 PM 715 Views
I had high hopes for it. - 24/02/2011 11:10:53 AM 917 Views
Yes. Do it! - 24/02/2011 11:13:15 AM 760 Views
Re: I had high hopes for it. - 24/02/2011 11:31:49 AM 1109 Views
Guess I'll be reading Lilith. *NM* - 23/02/2011 09:01:36 PM 334 Views

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