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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 3 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 3 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.

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

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

this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2024
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