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Failures in Polymathy

– Personal ramblings, thinly veiled as thoughts on what I read

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Biography, History, Journalism, Mythology, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

June 11, 2021July 4, 2021

Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography – Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet

I don’t think this book had the desired effect.

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Epic, Fiction, Mythology, Poetry  0 Comments

April 24, 2020March 29, 2020

The Aeneid – Virgil – Robert Fitzgerald (translator)

Epic poems are a medium well out of date, but Fitzgerald’s translation seems to hold a lot of fidelity to them.

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Conspiracy, Cyberpunk, Fiction, Mythology, Science-Fiction, Uncategorized  0 Comments

December 7, 2018August 28, 2018

Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson

In a future where governments are disappearing and corporations have taken over, a virus is being used to take over the world…

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Classics, Fiction, History, Mythology  0 Comments

July 6, 2018May 22, 2018

The Song of Roland

A classic? A French hero braved the foreign hordes to defend his homeland. I’m not so sure…

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