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Today, 06:49 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread the book with the best ending? in General Literature

Here are three instantly recognizable and justly famous novel endings, although, unlike the endings I quoted earlier, they qualify more as great...

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Today, 05:41 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread American Kennel Club Guide to Dogs in General Writing

I don't know how to make spaces on this site (except with the ****). It looked better on regular paper (like a chart one would actually put on a...

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Today, 05:28 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread the book with the best ending? in General Literature

I have a few nominations (although I can't pick one). When I was a child, I thought "The Jungle Books" had the saddest ending (particularly the last...

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Today, 01:12 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

I own one of Sarris's books (the one in which he ranks all the Hollywood directors, as if posting in a thread on Literary Forum), and I agree that...

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Today, 12:07 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Musical instruments associated with famous characters in literature and history ? in General Literature

Roland had his horn Oliphant. Marianne Dashwood played the piano, as did Jane Fairfax and (with less skill) Emma Woodhouse and Elizabeht Bennet. ...

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Yesterday, 08:02 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

Are you able to read? If you were, you would recognize that my post clearly DISAGREED with the notion that there needs to be one artist to admire. ...

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Yesterday, 07:05 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Russian Literature and the Canon in General Literature

For the same reason that I have an extensive wine collection in my “wine cellar”. If I offer a guest some wine, I say, “Let me get a bottle from my...

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Yesterday, 06:36 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

The problem with film (at least it’s a problem to some people) is that it is such a corporate art form. First of all, the “auteur theory” of film,...

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Yesterday, 01:13 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

Without the influence of Australian aboriginal culture, the Crocodile Dundee movies would not have been possible. Case closed.

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Yesterday, 01:01 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread American Kennel Club Guide to Dogs in General Writing

I’ve never read Sol Saks or Gene Perret, or any other advice on comedy writing. However, humor is one of my favorite genres. Woody Allen’s Getting...

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05-21-2013, 07:47 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread My Greatest Feats of Artistic Endurance in General Chat

Your right! I was referring to "The Dark Knight". I must have left before the credits, which was about 6 hours after I should have left.

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05-21-2013, 07:24 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Russian Literature and the Canon in General Literature

Duplicate

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05-21-2013, 07:22 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Russian Literature and the Canon in General Literature

My book shelves are heaped with hundreds of Russian novels and poetry anthologies, all written in the original language. Unfortunately, since I...

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05-21-2013, 07:11 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

Did you see "Midnight in Paris"? That's the plot.

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05-21-2013, 07:09 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Humor and Self-Righteousness in Philosophical Literature

Diogenes, the founder of Cynicsm, appears to have had a sense of humor. He lived in a barrel, and ate nothing but lentils. One day, his philopher...

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05-21-2013, 06:09 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Russian Literature and the Canon in General Literature

"manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)” ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

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05-21-2013, 05:37 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Which COUNTRY has produced the greatest literature? in General Literature

As Greenblatt (and Tolstoy) point out, Shakespeare altered the story to eliminate the motive for the protagonist's action in three of his greatest...

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05-21-2013, 02:39 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

I think Americans dominated popular music for the first half of the 20th century (compared to the Brits, at least). Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Cole...

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05-21-2013, 12:52 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Which COUNTRY has produced the greatest literature? in General Literature

I just found it interesting that a modern scholar (and a huge fan of Shakespeare) agreed with Tolstoy's critique, although not with the extent to...

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05-21-2013, 12:08 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

Two people are culturally dominant figures today, and have been for millenia. They lived within a few hundred miles of each other. Jesus and...

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05-21-2013, 11:55 AM

Ecurb replied to a thread Which COUNTRY has produced the greatest literature? in General Literature

I've been reading "Will in the World: How Shakespeare became Shalespeare", by Stephen Greenblatt. It's a literary biography, speculating about how...

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05-20-2013, 07:09 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

It worked for the Athenians.

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05-20-2013, 05:46 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Which is worse :Divorce or the Death of.... in Serious Discussions

Next question: which is worse, death or marriage?

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05-20-2013, 05:37 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

The noble, freedom-loving Texans rebelled against Santa Anna and the Mexican government, and won their independence. They were an independent nation...

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05-17-2013, 03:01 PM

Ecurb started a thread My Greatest Feats of Artistic Endurance in General Chat

My Greatest Feats of Artistic Endurance: 1) I once sat through an entire performance of “Cats”. By the end, I felt that I’d seen all 3,987...

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05-16-2013, 04:31 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Which COUNTRY has produced the greatest literature? in General Literature

However we rank Tolstoy as a critic (I still think any critique he wrote is entertaining, at least), I think we can safely say that he was himself...

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05-16-2013, 12:01 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Which COUNTRY has produced the greatest literature? in General Literature

I believe he praises the Bible (especially the story of Joseph and his Brothers and the psalms), Victor Hugo’s Les Miserable (we can only guess what...

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05-15-2013, 07:44 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Which COUNTRY has produced the greatest literature? in General Literature

Was Tolstoy repulsed by the sight of a nude? Need you ask? Although Tolstoy had 13 (I think) children, he became abstinent later in life. In that...

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05-15-2013, 06:33 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Which COUNTRY has produced the greatest literature? in General Literature

Tolstoy's essay on Shakespeare is available on this very site! Here's a short exerpt. Although most of us may disagree with it, to call it...

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05-15-2013, 05:03 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Which COUNTRY has produced the greatest literature? in General Literature

I'll grant that one of the fun things about "What is Art" is figuring out how it fits with the Great Man's personality as an artist and as a prophet....

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