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verbose

00:06

@ClaraDíazSanchez I maintain you're both. You have a PhD, which makes you a scholar (the claim doesn't say scholars of literature) and you are active on this site, which makes you a critic. So there

Clara Díaz Sanchez

@verbose You're very sweet

I took "literary critics and scholars" to be a zeugma

verbose

@ClaraDíazSanchez 🍯 👅 Honey-tongued, that's me

@ClaraDíazSanchez well, I'm literal minded. If that's what it was meant to say, it should've said so unambiguously, so there.

Peter Shor

00:23

@ClaraDíazSanchez I tried reading The Sound and the Fury, as well. And also gave up. If you want to read Southern literature set in the early 20th century, I highly recommend Tennessee Williams.

verbose

@PeterShor Eudora Welty? Flannery O'Connor? Kate Chopin?

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Peter Shor

03:09

I haven't read Eudora Welty, but the others are great suggestions.

Rand al'Thor

03:40

@verbose Are you secretly a mathematician?

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verbose

04:43

@Randal'Thor No, but (1) I have had jobs teaching programming and (2) I've studied formal logic off and on since high school. The latter helps me with the former in obvious ways

@PeterShor she has a very funny short story called "Why I live at the P.O." Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, an email client was named Eudora in a nod to the story.

oh wait here's the story

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verbose

06:18

Q: Who said: "Every time you finish reading a book, ask yourself how are you going to change?"

I think it was someone medieval to his son.

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Clara Díaz Sanchez

11:42

@PeterShor I'm not specifically interested in Southern literature. It's that I posted a question asking if Faulkner influenced Rulfo, another question asks if Joyce influenced Faulkner, and I realised that I'd never read anything by Faulkner

except for about 10% of TSaTF

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