#popular literature

[soliusss]

Funniest thing I’ve seen on tiktok are those sigma male boys getting mad that American psycho was written by a gay man and going “well I like fight club better” buddy I’ve got some world ending devastating news for you

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1788 More Qing Ghosts: 子不語 Zibuyu Chapter II

Reading old Chinese ghost stories and strange tales is great fun. I recently translated the first chapter from the early Great Qing (aka Qing Dynasty) collection 《子不語》 What Confucius Would Not Discuss by Yuan Mei (Chinese: 袁枚; pinyin: Yuán Méi; 1716–1797) — you can find them (if you dare) at 1788: Chinese Ghost Stories from “What Confucius Would Not Discuss” In translating Chapter One I enjoyed…

[emirkocturk]

Umma ki küsmeyesin. henüz yeşermemiş nice renkli umutlar var..

[tenth-sentence]

Today there's a huge body of scientific and popular literature about the difference between the right and left brains.

"The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, brain and body in the transformation of trauma" - Bessel van der Kolk

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Yes, leave politics out of all witing, it will just make the work dated. This is why no one reads or adapts Dickens, Wells, or Orwell these days. By like that nice Professor Tolkien, who never inserted any politics into his fantasy series influenced by his traumatic experience in the First World War and hatred of industrialism.

[newvision]

E.M. Forster, from Maurice

Euripides

Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson)

[queeringclassiclit]

Enjolras & Grantaire

from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

[you-can-be-what-you-want-to-be]

So I’ve noticed something about popular games (and ones I like) in the past decade….

[morangoowada]

Miku Northeast Brazil version 🇧🇷🌵

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

we should have crossovers but like. with classic literature. I wanna see jane eyre try to deal with emma "gets bored and makes it everyone else's problem" woodhouse

[antropofagis]

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1788: Chinese Ghost Stories from "What Confucius Would Not Discuss"

From Twitter feed at Jakabfi Károly (霸王最忠之臣子） A ghost story collection was the top of a recent Twitter note by the Hungarian student of China Jakabfi Károly (霸王最忠之臣子) Károly has the parenthetical Twitter Chinese moniker ‘the most loyal minister of the hegemon’ – keep in mind hegemons 霸王 weren’t necessarily bad guys back in ancient China: Confucius and Mencius spoke well of them if they were good…

[emirkocturk]

Bir dostu olmalı insanın. korkusuz sadık ve ihaneti olmayan. bir dostu olmalı insanın ölüm ayırsa bile baş ucundan ayrılmayan..

An innocent happiness..

[kalbi-duam]

Kaçıp gitmek ister insan bazen, sessizliğe doğru ..

[tolive-forever]

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

[flatwoods-mothman]

Please talk to me about Sayosuki