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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 992 Views
Um - 22/02/2011 12:02:22 AM 747 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 901 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 1045 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 780 Views
Re: And when you do, - 22/02/2011 05:09:08 AM 745 Views
I might - 22/02/2011 05:11:21 AM 872 Views
It doesn't have to be a country that still exists. - 22/02/2011 05:56:34 AM 910 Views
Indeed. *NM* - 22/02/2011 08:00:08 AM 340 Views
Done most of those as well - 22/02/2011 12:15:42 PM 912 Views
Why are you shocked that I've never read Kafka? - 22/02/2011 02:37:07 PM 845 Views
I have that problem - 22/02/2011 02:45:11 PM 813 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 340 Views
But I can only read 30-40 books a year at a maximum! - 22/02/2011 08:10:14 PM 735 Views
True - 22/02/2011 09:21:12 PM 915 Views
You say that as if you don't read Stanek on purpose. *NM* - 22/02/2011 09:39:46 PM 384 Views
Well... - 22/02/2011 11:15:51 PM 799 Views
Well, there is always - 22/02/2011 02:27:55 PM 948 Views
True - 22/02/2011 04:34:17 PM 895 Views
Re: Yes, but not on purpose for the challenge. *NM* - 22/02/2011 04:40:32 AM 368 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 374 Views
You should. *NM* - 22/02/2011 02:45:32 PM 336 Views
Urg ... don't think I'm going to finish. - 22/02/2011 06:10:38 AM 871 Views
Yes - 22/02/2011 10:14:19 AM 868 Views
Already done - 22/02/2011 02:45:37 PM 749 Views
Re: Already done - 22/02/2011 02:46:18 PM 780 Views
Re: Already done - 22/02/2011 04:46:16 PM 732 Views
Damn. - 22/02/2011 04:47:39 PM 795 Views
It was - 22/02/2011 04:55:44 PM 761 Views
Re: It was - 22/02/2011 04:56:39 PM 746 Views
Well, true.... - 22/02/2011 06:57:55 PM 750 Views
Belgium! *NM* - 22/02/2011 07:23:28 PM 354 Views
Pfft - 22/02/2011 07:28:39 PM 832 Views
Damn. *NM* - 22/02/2011 07:29:20 PM 373 Views
New Zealand.? - 22/02/2011 07:47:08 PM 897 Views
Mr Pip? - 22/02/2011 08:04:38 PM 813 Views
He's a Kiwi? - 22/02/2011 08:20:53 PM 856 Views
Re: Final check up: one week left in January/February's Challenge - 22/02/2011 10:54:16 PM 847 Views
King Lear. - 23/02/2011 04:24:46 PM 901 Views
Re: King Lear. - 23/02/2011 04:42:00 PM 789 Views
I had high hopes for it. - 24/02/2011 11:10:53 AM 1007 Views
Yes. Do it! - 24/02/2011 11:13:15 AM 829 Views
Re: I had high hopes for it. - 24/02/2011 11:31:49 AM 1204 Views
Guess I'll be reading Lilith. *NM* - 23/02/2011 09:01:36 PM 364 Views

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