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[-] Dr_Box@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Apparently you can be a successful author without using correct punctuation

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Dr_Box@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

[-] cone_zombie@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Blindness by José Saramago

[-] finickydesert@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

What to pick from god emperor of dune?

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

How to make a woman climax.

Answer, scale a mile high sheer rock wall.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

That it doesn't matter how powerful wizard you are, you'll still need to find a way to pay your rent.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

The Wizard of Oz?

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

About the African samurai, Yasuke.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

I learned about him fairly recently too. The end of his life struck me as brutal.

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

My understanding is that no one actually knows what happened to him in the end.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

I mean how everyone began to treat him in the absence of the emperor. I don't know, maybe I'm just used to Japan being an innately ethnically warm culture.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

The word "yclept," meaning "by the name of".

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

"Yclept moon, I punish you" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

[-] ChicagoCommunist@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty much everything in The Dawn of Everything tbh. The diversity of social organization going back thousands of years, regardless of means of subsistence. The range of conceptions of property, ethics, hierarchy, power, rights, etc.

Particularly interesting in American societies pre-colonization, since it seems the implicit image of them in the popular consciousness is a homogeneous series of small, isolated tribes, consisting of either noble savages or primitive barbarians, entirely ignorant of agriculture. When in reality a good many of them practiced agriculture in various ways, some of which colonizers simply didn't notice because they weren't as invasive as European methods.

Also that agriculture isn't necessary for the development of complex, large social structures, nor does the advent of agriculture necessitate the development of rigid hierarchies and exploitation.

Turns out the agricultural revolution and its consequences weren't a disaster for the human race. Sorry David Quinn.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

TIL anyone thought the adoption of agriculture was a bad thing.

Might as well see book ads soon saying "coming soon to your bookshelf, learn why the sun is actually humanity's arch nemesis."

[-] ChicagoCommunist@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair, it's slightly more nuanced than I stated lol. But still incorrect.

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Idk the last book I read was The Mist by Stephen King

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