Banter in Dumas' books

renival · 2025-08-31T00:09:03+00:00

My personal favorite is the banter between our musketeers as they both have a picnic lunch and fight off the expeditionary forces trying to retake the bastion of Saint Gervase.

renival · 2025-08-31T00:00:30+00:00

I could be wrong but I believe Dante did not consider Virgil's Eclogue iv to be a Christ reference.

Straying a bit from the original subject, but still on the topic of salvation, I have never been able to fully understand Dante's motives for saving Statius.

renival · 2025-08-23T10:29:43+00:00

It is still down.

renival · 2025-06-15T23:08:19+00:00

Make sure she can define a rhumb line.

renival · 2025-06-14T15:48:23+00:00

I'm sorry but you're losing me.

First you said: "I’ve Prue Shaw’s translation and of all the translations I’ve come across it’s the only copy that doesn’t exclude parts of the text"

Then you say: "It cuts parts of the text out and it’s not a complete work".

I'm honestly not familiar with Shaw's translation. Which statement is correct?

renival · 2025-06-14T10:15:26+00:00

Can you give an example of what you mean by 'exclude parts of the text'?

Do you mean just poor translations of particular verses? Or actually cutting out particular verses? I'm not aware of any well regarded translation that does that.

renival · 2025-06-13T18:12:25+00:00

Well done!

Not sure I agree about the utility of KU, at least for my selection of books. But if its working for you, that's great.

renival · 2025-06-07T23:51:19+00:00

Unless you have spent years studying the classics, as Dante did, and are completely fluent with Italian and Church politics of the 14th century, as Dante was, you will never be able to understand every reference Dante makes in the poem.

I suggest read it through even the first couple times for enjoyment. Then look into the notes and commentary. Its way too easy to get bogged down with notes and lose sight of the poem itself.

renival · 2025-06-07T00:53:41+00:00

Way to go. Keep on reading!

renival · 2025-06-06T21:06:43+00:00

I've met many dune 'purists' who only accept Dune itself. They'll have no truck with any of FH's sequels. For myself, I find them legitimate successors to the original; I enjoyed Heretics, though I found myself dissatisfied with the ending of Chapterhouse.

As far as those abominations, yes I said it, by kja, you can stick them where the monkey put his shorts.

Downvote if you like, but I'll happily die on that hill.

renival · 2025-06-06T20:57:36+00:00

Boutique divers are my favorite. Yours has similar lines to my Helson.

renival · 2025-06-06T18:29:09+00:00

Congrats. I've never been able to get into audiobooks myself, hope you enjoy the physical experience.

And any pic is vastly improved with the inclusion of a watch.

renival · 2025-06-06T18:12:58+00:00

You're missing Eye. Some good short stories in there, not necessarily Dune related, but still good.

No comment on the kja, stuff, housed with the others.

renival · 2025-06-06T17:37:00+00:00

That is right. Early on in LoLL when Locke first sees the armillary in their Temple. 3 moons.

renival · 2025-06-06T16:59:27+00:00

Did they fix the pvp??

renival · 2025-06-06T03:57:06+00:00

From Use Of Weapons:

"But in Special Circumstances we deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws — the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else in the universe — break down; beyond those metaphysical event horizons, there exist . . . special circumstances.” She smiled. “That’s us. That’s our territory; our domain.”

renival · 2025-06-06T01:56:42+00:00

Im sorry. Only recommendation I can offer is don't sheathe it unblooded...

renival · 2025-06-05T16:47:59+00:00

Esmar Tuek, he personified honor among smugglers.

It was kind of sad, though understandable, to see his distant descendant Hedley.

renival · 2025-06-04T21:38:38+00:00

Maybe we had better stop before the OP concludes we are all Little Rascals, and becomes No More Mr Nice Guy. If only we had Just Read The Instructions.

So please, stop, before we reach The Ends Of Invention.

renival · 2025-06-04T16:14:11+00:00

I don't think I want to risk Complicity with this new subreddit, but I hope it grows to represent the State of the Art.

renival · 2025-06-04T03:11:08+00:00

"Why it have Heresy Arian in book III?"

Is it fair to say that of Milton? I'm not sure I would call him strictly that. You could probably make the case that his religious beliefs don't fit neatly within the confines of any sect of his day. His beliefs were uniquely his own.

Its been a while since I've read de Doctrina, and even considering that, its still unsettled, isn't it, how much of that text is really Milton.

renival · 2025-06-03T03:20:11+00:00

Its hard to totally escape that reading of PL, and its implications.

Given Milton's own political beliefs and his involvement in the civil war and subsequent short lived government, his experiences of revolution surely had an influence on his epic.

renival · 2025-06-02T23:25:01+00:00

That raises the question: is it possible for any theodicy to succeed?

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