• Welcome to The Cave of Dragonflies forums, where the smallest bugs live alongside the strongest dragons.

    Guests are not able to post messages or even read certain areas of the forums. Now, that's boring, don't you think? Registration, on the other hand, is simple, completely free of charge, and does not require you to give out any personal information at all. As soon as you register, you can take part in some of the happy fun things at the forums such as posting messages, voting in polls, sending private messages to people and being told that this is where we drink tea and eat cod.

    Of course I'm not forcing you to do anything if you don't want to, but seriously, what have you got to lose? Five seconds of your life?

Search results

  1. Ruby

    What are you reading?

    opal could read that with his eyes closed.
  2. Ruby

    What are you reading?

    I think I've read that, but remember literally nothing about it.
  3. Ruby

    What are you reading?

    Wordsworth Classics use translations that are out of copyright, I believe. Their translation of Dante is from 1805. Their translation of Homer appears to be by George Chapman, who died in 1634. It has the distinction of being the translation which Keats wrote a poem about, but as you might...
  4. Ruby

    What are you reading?

    Are you sure a five-euro one-volume edition is going to be a respectable translation? I have my doubts.
  5. Ruby

    What are you reading?

    I've read that essay, actually. I don't think Orwell disliked Huxley (who was his French teacher for a year, you know), but they obviously had rather different ideas of what dangers faced society. Orwell thought We was just more relevant than Brave New World.
  6. Ruby

    What are you reading?

    Tell us if Brave New World ripped this off as much as people say it did.
  7. Ruby

    What are you reading?

    He's clearly been reading H.G. Wells.
  8. Ruby

    What are you reading?

    Yay! That's very sportsmanlike of you.
  9. Ruby

    What are you reading?

    All right, I'm going to wade into this now. Your argument seems very weak. I can hardly follow it. First of all, let's establish that the Oxford comma has existed in the English language for hundreds and hundreds of years, and for most of that time it appears not to have been "hotly debated"...
  10. Ruby

    What are you reading?

    Game, set and match.
  11. Ruby

    What are you reading?

    Eats, Shoots and Leaves is a ridiculous evangelical preach, but it does at least make people conscious of their own writing.
  12. Ruby

    What are you reading?

    Huxley's writing style is flabbier and less modern, but the two books have more in common than people sometimes think. It is not a simple matter of control by force vs. control by mind-numbing.
  13. Ruby

    What are you reading?

    Well, it's supposed to be in Greek. But, yes, since Oedipus is a verse drama, a faithful translation will be like a Shakespeare play, at least superficially. Your translation is so old, though, I found it freely available online. I only had a quick look at it, but he uses "ye" and "thee" and...
  14. Ruby

    What are you reading?

    Seems to be an obscure 1912 translation by someone called "F. Storr." I hope it's not too inaccurate or old-fashioned.
  15. Ruby

    What are you reading?

    Whose translation?
  16. Ruby

    What are you reading?

    I read The Libation Bearers of Aeschylus today.
  17. Ruby

    What are you reading?

    It sounds weird to say 'Homer's The Iliad' with the 'the' in there...
  18. Ruby

    What are you reading?

    Finished The Bacchae an hour or two ago.
  19. Ruby

    What are you reading?

    Why would you choose them that way?
  20. Ruby

    What are you reading?

    Well, it depends on what sort you like.
Back
Top Bottom