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12:13 AM
If you've only read my novels you might not be familiar with my fantasy. Here's "The Nalendar" which was reprinted at Uncanny http://ow.ly/Xc4r30iIgiN
And here's "Marsh Gods" at Strange Horizons http://ow.ly/OrZw30iIgtY ; "Beloved of the Sun" at Beneath Ceaseless Skies http://ow.ly/ke0p30iIgy6 ; and "The God of Au" http://ow.ly/hTID30iIgB9.
Hold my coat, Twitter: So, yet again, a dude is trying to steal credit from a brilliant woman. The @observer today treats us to yet another poorly-researched rehash of the ancient canard, ‘Mary Shelley’s husband deserves the credit for Frankenstein’ https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-observer1702/20180304/281642485673501
> "There has been increasing discontent among the male intellectuals for some time at the thought that a woman wrote ‘Wuthering Heights’. I thought one of them would produce something of this kind, sooner or later. Well, I must just avoid him, that’s all."
- Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm, 1932
In honor of Gibbons' character Mr. Mybug, who is writing a psychological treatise on Bramwell Brontë and introduces himself with the memorable question "do you believe that women have souls?" we call this kind of nonsense Mybuggery.
 
 
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2:11 AM
Part 5 of the series of black portraits from the last year or two, this one for THE BOOK OF THE PHOENIX written by she who is Nnedi Okorafor, for Crosscult in Germany. graphite on paper.
VIN DIESEL IS HAMLET, written by @aaronreynolds and illustrated by @inkskratch.
 
 
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3:27 AM
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Q: Tips to improve the comprehension of old textbooks

Vinicius L. DeloiGoal: Read the classic books of literature and philosophy to learn the ideas of the great minds of the past about the world, life and everything else. Problem: I simply can't understand them. And the older the text the worst it gets. Example: "In all judgments in which the relation of a subject...

 
 
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Q: What are the tales that familiar with Western readers that similar to "Blind men and an elephant"?

OokerI am translating my article to English, which heavily uses the Blind men and an elephant tale. Since the metaphor is important, I am looking for an alternative tale that is more well-known in the West, especially in the US. Do you know any of them? A group of blind men heard that a strange an...

 
 
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9:05 AM
"The Male Glance," by Lili Loofbourow for The Virginia Quarterly Review.
And further discussion:
What's clear is that there's a *critical* analogue to Laura Mulvey's male gaze. As critics and consumers, we've been taught to underread female-centric art. We glance at it, classify it, say "got it," and move on. This is the male glance. Here's my thinking re: how it works. https://twitter.com/wrightallison/status/970746904161214464
 
 
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11:44 AM
(I think the real value in that article is that it can provide tools for talking about other kinds of glance.)
Unrelatedly,
A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man. Also, 'embiggen' is now a word we enter. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embiggen https://t.co/wLUDsWIAga
 
 
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3:16 PM
@Bookworm I am strongly considering closing this. We don't judge questions by the answers they receive.
 
 
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4:58 PM
@Mithrandir Obviously I'm biased here, but that question didn't quite have the smell of a recommendation question to me from the start. The focus on a specific work narrows the scope massively from what a typical rec question looks like.
Think of it not as "what are some stories similar to X?" but "how should I translate X into English for a Western audience?"
(Also, sometimes an answer can 'rescue' a question. Like if a question seemed horribly POB until someone came along and provided a totally objective answer, proving that it wasn't POB after all.)
 
 
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6:34 PM
One day some new and vote-happy Ayn Rand fan is going to join this site and @EJoshuaS will suddenly gain a crap-ton of rep ;-)
 
6:45 PM
Or one of the already active voters will read Atlas Shrugged, with the same result.
 
7:03 PM
:)
 
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@Randal'Thor Rereading it, I disagree - " I am looking for an alternative tale that is more well-known in the West, especially in the US. Do you know any of them?"
 
user15026
They're specifically asking for an alternate thing.
 
8:07 PM
@Ash I feel like an edit to rephrase could make it more clearly on-topic, but would rather not do that myself since I answered it.
 
user15026
I feel like that would change what the OP is asking for, tho
 
It's kind of an XY problem. What they really want is a viable translation of the blind-and-elephant story for a US audience. What they're explicitly asking for is a similar story which is better known in the US.
 
 
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10:32 PM
@Randal'Thor I wonder if that question would fare better on Mythology SE.
 
New Thomas Hardy question for @Fabjaja :-) (congrats on the gold badge, btw!)
 
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Q: What was the connection between Hardy and Keats?

Rand al'ThorThomas Hardy's short poem "At Lulworth Cove a Century Back" is a sort of ode to Keats, who apparently left England from near Lulworth Cove on his way to Rome: "Good. That man goes to Rome — to death, despair; And no one notes him now but you and I: A hundred years, and the world will foll...

 

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