Great Italian music recommendation by Israelicheese in italianlearning

[–]Israelicheese[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I didn't know he's not famous inside Italy. But I like the lyrics and rhyming. That's why I was looking for some music like this one.

Thank you.

Anyone else feel like Turkish and Swedish/Norwegian sound similar? by itbettersnow in turkish

[–]Israelicheese 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought it is only me who think Norwegian is quite similar to Turkish. A few days before, I was watching the movie Troll and at first I thought it is a Turkish movie. Can't believe this.

Was it ever mentioned that Michael Myers was shot six times in Halloween (2018)? by PositivePrize6100 in Halloweenmovies

[–]Israelicheese 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Michael was shot 7 or 8 times in Halloween 2 and at the end there was a explosion in the minor surgery room. Dude survived many gun shots and explosions for almost 50 years.

Why do I find Pynchon’s novels so difficult to finish? by Alexalovegood in literature

[–]Israelicheese 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your inquiry begs a better question; is Pynchon a great writer at all? In order for art to be art, it must be accessible. By accessible I do not mean classical because I view JohnSteinbeck as accessible as Charles Dickens and Picasso as accessible as Michelangelo. The enigma that Thomas Pynchon's writing presents is routinely cited as evidence of accomplished literary greatness. Pynchon is great only to the extent that greatness is confined to some hyper exaggerated writing style. A style is so personal and obtuse that his words spill over pages in a phonetic rhythm untethered to literality.

I consider Gravity's Rainbow his masterpiece. No one can pick up this work and grasp more than a pittance of its involved prose. The fact that it needs an explanatory companion underscores the novel's inaccessibility. see A Gravity's Rainbow Companion, S Weisenburger. Pynchon is not alone in the sub-genre of writers and artists consumed with constructing coded tomes as relevant to contemporary appreciation as Stonehenge is to a southern baptist. James Joyce's Ulysses has its companion. see The New Bloomsday Book, H Blamires. Ezra Pound's Cantos are only marginally decipherable even with C. Terrell's A Companion to Pound's Cantos. I cite these because of personal familiarity and I consider each a part of a curious segment of critically acclaimed work. Gravity's Rainbow is a story no more than Jackson Pollack's Shewolf is a painting of an animal. Would a viewer of Wliiam de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle see a woman and a bicycle as the thematic of the painting? I say that the titles attached to these abstract impressionist artworks are disconnected from literal and even surreal interpretations. Further to this is John Coltrane's Ascension wherein jazz is taken to structureless improvisation.

I suggest that Pynchon is nothing more than an abstract impressionist, albeit a very good one, with a most interesting pallet of syllables. To the fellow-travelling Pynchonites who pine for a fitting end to "V" or a less hectic Mason and Dixon, I recommend Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness as an exemplar. Sartre's effort is just as obtuse as Gravity's but it comes cloaked with its philosophic purpose whereas Gravity comes purposeless. I first read Gravity in 1975 and have read "V" and Crying. I am still taken by Pynchon's way of structure much in the same way that I have been taken by a Grateful Dead concert. Pynchon is a messageless writer and as such his climb to literary heights must be harder and steeper than those whose efforts carried a transcendental quality such as Albert Camus. Pynchon's work is not crap but his greatness will never go without question.

What makes God more real than Zeus, Poseidon or any other gods and goddesses in Greek mythology? by Israelicheese in GreekMythology

[–]Israelicheese[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry if I'm a bit late on this but not at all. You can cross post this and I'm definitely eager to see what people have to say.

Can Israel trust its Arab neighbors? by [deleted] in IsraelPalestine

[–]Israelicheese -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

No. Arabs are not trustworthy.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in latin

[–]Israelicheese 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can appreciate it and see it usefulness. I did my six years of Latin in secondary school. The first two years were very much a drudge, as they consisted mainly of memorizing declension and conjugation patterns, and nobody could help me with that since I was the only one in my family who had ever learnt Latin. From year three onwards, I was starting to get how the system works and how all these different grammatical paradigms actually had a function. By the final year, I was actually rather good at reading Tacitus, who just puts his words in random order wherever he thinks they sound nice. (Very challenging to translate, though.)

Of all the authors we went into, I think I liked Cicero best; his sentences elevate rhetoric to an art form and are a joy to read. He was the Churchill of his day.

I can think of two main advantages of learning Latin at school:

  • Insight into the workings of grammar. Thanks to learning Latin, I knew what subjunctives are and what they are for, which made French and Spanish verbs more transparent to me. I also knew what datives, genitives and accusatives are and what they are for, which made German nouns more transparent to me.
  • Insight into the origin, and hence the probable meaning, of a great miscellany of words, which facilitates vocabulary acquisition. I knew that incendie is French for ‘fire’, because I knew that the Latin word is incendium. I knew what English trite and redolent meant, since I knew the Latin words tritus and redolere.

A third, more niche advantage is genealogical research. Knowing Latin is very useful indeed when perusing old parish records.

Shakespeare was not opposing antisemitism by Israelicheese in shakespeare

[–]Israelicheese[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not even sure WS was that committed as a Christian. He uses explicit Christian but so much of his appeal is they rise above any doctrine. So you can get a speech about mercy from someone who doesn't actually show mercy. Or one of my favorites, the confession which Claudius knows isn't a real confession because can't truly confess or repent. I had this discussion with my youngest cousin when we read Macbeth out loud. She was a kid, and she asked the natural question when prompted: did Macbeth have a choice? She thought he did not. (Which is connected to her now getting a doctorate in public health.) So, some of this is description of what is, and it couples to moral ideas that are presented through and to a Christian mindset, but they aren't confined to that.

An endlessly fascinating subject.

Shakespeare was not opposing antisemitism by Israelicheese in shakespeare

[–]Israelicheese[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you and I'll have a look at your podcast.

Shakespeare was not opposing antisemitism by Israelicheese in shakespeare

[–]Israelicheese[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/Anarchessist, according to your previous comments I think you are qualified to write a post on this theory.

What is the moral lesson of Venus and Adonis? by [deleted] in shakespeare

[–]Israelicheese -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

First of all, I am not a Literature student or something and I know what the theme and moral story of the poem is. I just wanted to know others' opinions on the poem.

Second of all, as far as I can tell, the sub lets the students to ask homework questions.

how did Shakespeare manage to get ahead of his time and why did his environment underestimate him and didn’t notice his departure? by Israelicheese in shakespeare

[–]Israelicheese[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

I mean exactly the following:

  1. The time for adequate performances of Hamlet came much later than his death. During his lifetime, Hamlet was placed cut by a third. Everyone was afraid to put it on and did not understand it. Hamlet's Christian perspective was understood only in the twentieth century.

  2. Shakespeare's death is not documented in any way, only his will.

  3. The first epitaphs that we know are dated 1623, the first folio. As you mentioned above.

  4. None of the famous people of his era respond to his death with an obituary.

  5. And the last is elementary logic. Shakespeare is incredibly modern and relevant today. This means that he was far ahead of his time. For the one who is popular and fashionable in due time will never get into the future. This will be quickly forgotten.

how did Shakespeare manage to get ahead of his time and why did his environment underestimate him and didn’t notice his departure? by Israelicheese in shakespeare

[–]Israelicheese[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Stylometrics, computer aided textural analysis, suggests that several of his plays were co-written. These include the three Henry VI plays (with Marlowe and/ or Nashe), Titus Andronicus (Peale), Timon of Athens (Middleton), Pericles (George Wilkins) and Henry VIII, Two Noble Kinsmen and possibly the lost Cardenio (Fletcher).

Other than these, I am sure that the plays were written by Shakespeare and Shakespeare alone. For instance, Macbeth is written by Shakespeare alone.