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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 935 Views
Um - 22/02/2011 12:02:22 AM 688 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 836 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 982 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 708 Views
Re: And when you do, - 22/02/2011 05:09:08 AM 690 Views
I might - 22/02/2011 05:11:21 AM 814 Views
It doesn't have to be a country that still exists. - 22/02/2011 05:56:34 AM 851 Views
Indeed. *NM* - 22/02/2011 08:00:08 AM 316 Views
Done most of those as well - 22/02/2011 12:15:42 PM 852 Views
Why are you shocked that I've never read Kafka? - 22/02/2011 02:37:07 PM 788 Views
I have that problem - 22/02/2011 02:45:11 PM 747 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 307 Views
But I can only read 30-40 books a year at a maximum! - 22/02/2011 08:10:14 PM 679 Views
True - 22/02/2011 09:21:12 PM 856 Views
You say that as if you don't read Stanek on purpose. *NM* - 22/02/2011 09:39:46 PM 357 Views
Well... - 22/02/2011 11:15:51 PM 739 Views
Well, there is always - 22/02/2011 02:27:55 PM 884 Views
True - 22/02/2011 04:34:17 PM 836 Views
Re: Yes, but not on purpose for the challenge. *NM* - 22/02/2011 04:40:32 AM 341 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 344 Views
You should. *NM* - 22/02/2011 02:45:32 PM 308 Views
Urg ... don't think I'm going to finish. - 22/02/2011 06:10:38 AM 809 Views
Yes - 22/02/2011 10:14:19 AM 808 Views
Already done - 22/02/2011 02:45:37 PM 692 Views
Re: Already done - 22/02/2011 02:46:18 PM 720 Views
Re: Already done - 22/02/2011 04:46:16 PM 671 Views
Damn. - 22/02/2011 04:47:39 PM 730 Views
It was - 22/02/2011 04:55:44 PM 705 Views
Re: It was - 22/02/2011 04:56:39 PM 690 Views
Well, true.... - 22/02/2011 06:57:55 PM 696 Views
Belgium! *NM* - 22/02/2011 07:23:28 PM 325 Views
Pfft - 22/02/2011 07:28:39 PM 771 Views
Damn. *NM* - 22/02/2011 07:29:20 PM 347 Views
New Zealand.? - 22/02/2011 07:47:08 PM 839 Views
Mr Pip? - 22/02/2011 08:04:38 PM 751 Views
He's a Kiwi? - 22/02/2011 08:20:53 PM 803 Views
Re: Final check up: one week left in January/February's Challenge - 22/02/2011 10:54:16 PM 791 Views
King Lear. - 23/02/2011 04:24:46 PM 835 Views
Re: King Lear. - 23/02/2011 04:42:00 PM 730 Views
I had high hopes for it. - 24/02/2011 11:10:53 AM 933 Views
Yes. Do it! - 24/02/2011 11:13:15 AM 774 Views
Re: I had high hopes for it. - 24/02/2011 11:31:49 AM 1122 Views
Guess I'll be reading Lilith. *NM* - 23/02/2011 09:01:36 PM 339 Views

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