Podcasts about Horace

Ahead of her new book What's So Great About the Great Books? coming out in April, Naomi Kanakia and I talked about literature from Herodotus to Tony Tulathimutte. We touched on Chaucer, Anglo-Saxon poetry, Scott Alexander, Shakespeare, William James, Helen deWitt, Marx and Engels, Walter Scott, Les Miserables, Jhootha Sach, the Mahabharata, and more. Naomi also talked about some of her working habits and the history and future of the Great Books movement. Naomi, of course, writes Woman of Letters here on Substack.TranscriptHenry Oliver: Today, I am talking with Naomi Kanakia. Naomi is a novelist, a literary critic, and most importantly she writes a Substack called Woman of Letters, and she has a new book coming out, What's So Great About the Great Books? Naomi, welcome.Naomi Kanakia: Thanks for having me on.Oliver: How is the internet changing the way that literature gets discussed and criticized, and what is that going to mean for the future of the Great Books?Kanakia: How is the internet changing it? I can really speak to only how it has changed it for me. I started off as a writer of young adult novels and science fiction, and there's these very active online fan cultures for those two things.I was reading the Great Books all through that time. I started in 2010 through today. In the 2010s, it really felt like there was not a lot of online discussion of classic literature. Maybe that was just me and I wasn't finding it, but it didn't necessarily feel like there was that community.I think because there are so many strong, public-facing institutions that discuss classic literature, like the NYRB, London Review of Books, a lot of journals, and universities, too. But now on Substack, there are a number of blogs—yours, mine, a number of other ones—that are devoted to classic literature. All of those have these commenters, a community of commenters. I also follow bloggers who have relatively small followings who are reading Tolstoy, reading Middlemarch, reading even much more esoteric things.I know that for me, becoming involved in this online culture has given me much more of an awareness that there are many people who are reading the classics on their own. I think that was always true, but now it does feel like it's more of a community.Oliver: We are recording this the day after the Washington Post book section has been removed. You don't see some sort of relationship between the way these literary institutions are changing online and the way the Great Books are going to be conceived of in the future? Because the Great Books came out of a an old-fashioned, saving-the-institutions kind of radical approach to university education. We're now moving into a world where all those old things seem to be going.Kanakia: Yes. I agree. The Great Books began in the University of Chicago and Columbia University. If you look into the history of the movement, it really was about university education and the idea that you would have a common core and all undergraduates would read these books. The idea that the Great Books were for the ordinary person was really an afterthought, at least for Mortimer Adler and those original Great Books guys. Now, the Great Books in the university have had a resurgence that we can discuss, but I do think there's a lot more life and vitality in the kind of public-facing humanities than there has been.I talked to Irina Dumitrescu, who writes for TLS (The Times Literary Supplement), LRB (The London Review of Books), a lot of these places, and she also said the same thing—that a lot of these journals are going into podcasts, and they're noticing a huge interest in the humanities and in the classics even at the same time as big institutions are really scaling back on those things. Humanities majors are dropping, classics majors are getting cut, book coverage at major periodicals is going down. It does seem like there are signals that are conflicting. I don't really know totally what to make of it. I do think there is some relation between those two things.Ted Gioia on Substack is always talking about how culture is stagnant, basically, and one of the symptoms of that is that “back list” really outsells “front list” for books. Even in 2010, 50 percent of the books that were sold were front-list titles, books that had been released in the last 18 months. Now it's something like only 35 percent of books or something like that are front-list titles. These could be completely wrong, but there's been a trend.I think the decrease in interest in front-list books is really what drives the loss of these book-review pages because they mostly review front-list books. So, I think that does imply that there's a lot of interest in old books. That's what our stagnant culture means.Oliver: Why do you think your own blog is popular with the rationalists?Kanakia: I don't know for certain. There was a story I wrote that was a joke. There are all these pop nonfiction books that aim to prove something that seems counterintuitive, so I wrote a parody of one of those where I aim to prove that reading is bad for you. This book has many scientific studies that show the more you read, the worse it is because it makes you very rigid.Scott Alexander, who is the archrationalist, really liked that, and he added me to his blog roll. Because of that, I got a thousand rationalist subscribers. I have found that rationalists at least somewhat interested in the classics. I think they are definitely interested in enduring sources of value. I've observed a fair amount of interest.Oliver: How much of a lay reader are you really? Because you read scholarship and critics and you can just quote John Gilroy in the middle of a piece or something.Kanakia: Yeah. That is a good question. I have definitely gotten more interested in secondary literature. In my book, I really talk about being a lay reader and personally having a nonacademic approach to literature. I do think that, over 15 years of being a lay reader, I have developed a lot of knowledge.I've also learned the kind of secondary literature that is really important. I think having historical context adds a lot and is invaluable. Right now I'm rereading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. When I first read it in 2010, I hardly knew anything about French history. I was even talking online with someone about how most people who read Les Miserables think it's set in the French Revolution. That's basically because Americans don't really know anything about French history.Everything makes just a lot more sense the more you know about the time because it was written for people in it. For people in 1860s France, who knew everything about their own recent history, that really adds a lot to it. I still don't tend to go that much into interpretive literature, literature that tries to do readings of the stories or tell me the meaning of the stories. I feel like I haven't really gotten that much out of that.Oliver: How long have you been learning Anglo-Saxon?Kanakia: I went through a big Anglo-Saxon phase. That was in 2010. It started because I started reading The Canterbury Tales in Middle English. There is a great app online called General Prologue created by one of your countrymen, Terry Richardson [NB it is Terry Jones], who loved Middle English. In this app, he recites the Middle English of the General Prologue. I started listening to this app, and I thought, I just really love the rhythms and the sounds of Middle English. And it's quite easy to learn. So then, I got really into that.And then I thought, but what about Anglo-Saxon? I'm very bad at languages. I studied Latin for seven years in middle school and high school. I never really got very far, but I thought, Anglo-Saxon has to be the easiest foreign language you can learn, right? So, I got into it.I cannot sight read Anglo-Saxon, but I really got into Anglo-Saxon poetry. I really liked the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Most people probably would not like the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle because it's very repetitive, but that makes it great if you're a language learner because every entry is in this very repetitive structure. I just felt such a connection. I get in trouble when I say this kind of stuff, because I'm never quiet sure if it's 100 percent true. But it's certainly one of the oldest vernacular literatures in Europe. It's just so much older than most of the other medieval literature I've read. And it just was such a window into a different part of history I never knew about.Oliver: And you particularly like “The Dream of the Rood”?Kanakia: Yeah, “The Dream of the Rood” is my favorite Anglo-Saxon poem. “The Dream of the Rood” is a poem that is told from the point of view of Christ's cross. A man is having a dream. In this dream he encounters Christ's cross, and Christ's cross starts reciting to him basically the story of the crucifixion. At the end, the cross is buried. I don't know, it was just so haunting and powerful. Yeah, it was one of my favorites.Oliver: Why do you think Byron is a better poet than Alexander Pope?Kanakia: This is an argument I cannot get into. I think this is coming up because T. S. Eliot felt that Alexander Pope was a great poet because he really exemplified the spirit of the age. I don't know. I've tried to read Pope. It just doesn't do it for me. Whereas with Byron, I read Don Juan and found it entertaining. I enjoyed it. Then, his lyric poetry is just more entertaining to read. With Alexander Pope, I'm learning a lot about what kind of poetry people wrote in the 18th century, but the joy is not there.Oliver: Okay. Can we do a quick fire round where I say the name of a book and you just say what you think of it, whatever you think of it?Kanakia: Sure.Oliver: Okay. The Odyssey.Kanakia: The Odyssey. Oh, I love The Odyssey. It has a very strange structure, where it starts with Telemachus and then there's this flashback in the middle of it. It is much more readable than The Iliad; I'll say that.Oliver: Herodotus.Kanakia: Herodotus is wild. Going into Herodotus, I really thought it was about the Persian war, which it is, but it's mostly a general overview of everything that Herodotus knew, about anything. It's been a long time since I read it. I really appreciate the voice of Herodotus, how human it is, and the accumulation of facts. It was great.Oliver: I love the first half actually. The bit about the Persian war I'm less interested in, but the first half I think is fantastic. I particularly love the Egypt book.Kanakia: Oh yeah, the Egypt book is really good.Oliver: All those like giant beetles that are made of fire or whatever; I can't remember the details, but it's completely…Kanakia: The Greeks are also so fascinated by Egypt. They go down there like what is going on out there? Then, most of what we know about Egypt comes from this Hellenistic period, when the Greeks went to Egypt. Our Egyptian kings list comes from the Hellenistic period where some scholar decided to sort out what everybody was up to and put it all into order. That's why we have such an orderly story about Egypt. That's the story that the Greeks tried to tell themselves.Oliver: Marcus Aurelius.Kanakia: Marcus Aurelius. When I first read The Meditations, which I loved, obviously, I thought, “being the Roman emperor cannot be this hard.” It really was a black pill moment because I thought, “if the emperor of Rome is so unhappy, maybe human power really doesn't do it.”Knowing more about Marcus Aurelius, he did have quite a difficult life. He was at war for most of his—just stuck in the region in Germany for ages. He had various troubles, but yeah, it really was very stoic. It was, oh, I just have to do my duty. Very “heavy is the head that wears the crown” kind of stuff. I thought, “okay, I guess being Roman emperor is not so great.”Oliver: Omar Khayyam.Kanakia: Omar Khayyam. Okay, I've only read The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald, which I loved, but I cannot formulate a strong opinion right now.Oliver: As You Like It.Kanakia: No opinions.Oliver: Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.Kanakia: Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. I do have an opinion about this, which is that they should make a redacted version of Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. I normally am not a big believer in abridgements because I feel like whatever is there is there. But, Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, first of all, has a long portion before Boswell even meets Johnson. That portion drags; it's not that great. Then it has all these like letters that Johnson wrote, which also are not that great. What's really good is when Boswell just reports everything Johnson ever said, which is about half the book. You get a sense of Johnson's conversation and his personality, and that is very gripping. I've definitely thought that with a different presentation, this could still be popular. People would still read this.Oliver: The Communist Manifesto.Kanakia: The Communist Manifesto. It's very stirring. I love The Communist Manifesto. It has very haunting, powerful lines. I won't try to quote from it because I'll misquote them.Oliver: But it is remarkably well written.Kanakia: Oh yeah, it is a great work of literature.Oliver: Yeah.Kanakia: I read Capital [Das Kapital], which is not a great work of literature, and I would venture to say that it is not necessarily worth reading. It really feels like Marx's reputation is built on other political writings like The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and works like that, which really seem to have a lot more meat on the bone than Capital.Oliver: Pragmatism by William James.Kanakia: Pragmatism. I mean, I've mentioned that in my book. I love William James in general. I think William James was writing in this 19th-century environment where it seemed like some form of skepticism was the only rational solution. You couldn't have any source of value, and he really tried to cut through that with Pragmatism and was like, let's just believe the things that are good to believe. It is definitely at least useful to think, although someone else can always argue with you about what is useful to believe. But, as a personal guide for belief, I think it is still useful.Oliver: Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw.Kanakia: No strong opinions. It was a long time ago that I read Major Barbara.Oliver: Tell me what you like about James Fenimore Cooper.Kanakia: James Fenimore Cooper. Oh, this is great. I have basically a list of Great Books that I want to read, but four or five years ago, I thought, “what's in all the other books that I know the names of but that are not reputed, are not the kind of books you still read?”That was when I read Walter Scott, who I really love. And I just started reading all kinds of books that were kind of well known but have kind of fallen into literary disfavor. In almost every case, I felt like I got a lot out of these books. So, nowadays when I approach any realm of literature, I always look for those books.In 19th-century American literature, the biggest no-longer-read book is The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, which was America's first bestseller. He was the first American novelist that had a high reputation in Europe. The Last of the Mohicans is kind of a historical romance, à la Walter Scott, but much more tightly written and much more tightly plotted.Cooper has written five novels, the Leatherstocking Tales, that are all centered around this very virtuous, rough-hewn frontiersman, Natty Bumppo. He has his best friend, Chingachgook, who is the last of the Mohicans. He's the last of his tribe. And the two of these guys are basically very sad and stoic. Chingachgook is distanced from his tribe. Chingachgook has a tribe of Native Americans that he hates—I want to say it's the Huron. He's always like, “they're the bad ones,” and he's always fighting them. Then, Natty Bumppo doesn't really love settled civilization. He's not precisely at war with it, but he does not like the settlers. They're kind of stuck in the middle. They have various adventures, and I just thought it was so haunting and powerful.I've been reading a lot of other 19th-century American literature, and virtually none of it treats Native Americans with this kind of respect. There's a lot of diversity in the Native American characters; there's really an attempt to show how their society works and the various ways that leadership and chiefship works among them. There's this very haunting moment in The Last of the Mohicans, where this aged chief, Tamenund, comes out and starts speaking. This is a chief who, in American mythology, was famous for being a friend to the white people. But, James Fenimore Cooper writing in the 1820s has Tamenund come out at 80 years old and say, “we have to fight; we have to fight the white people. That's our only option.” It was just such a powerful moment and such a powerful book.I was really, really enthused. I read all of these Leatherstocking Tales. It was also a very strange experience to read these books that are generally supposed to be very turgid and boring, and then I read them and was like, “I understand. I'm so transported.” I understand exactly why readers in the 1820s loved this.Oliver: Which Walter Scott books do you like?Kanakia: I love all the Walter Scott books I've read, but the one I liked best was Kenilworth. Have you ever read Kenilworth?Oliver: I don't know that one.Kanakia: Yeah, it's about Elizabeth I, who had a romantic relationship with one of her courtiers.Oliver: The Earl of Essex?Kanakia: Yeah. She really thought they were going to get married, but then it turned out he was secretly married. Basically, I guess the implication is that he killed his wife in order to marry Queen Elizabeth I. It's a novel all about him and that situation, and it just felt very tightly plotted. I really enjoyed it.Oliver: What did you think of Rejection?Kanakia: Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte? Initially when I read this book, I enjoyed it, but I was like, “life cannot possibly be this sad.” It's five or six stories about these people who just have nothing going on. Their lives are so miserable, they can't find anyone to sleep with, and they're just doomed to be alone forever. I was like, “life can't be this bad.” But now thinking back over it, it is one of the most memorable books I've read in the last year. It really sticks with you. I feel like my opinion of this book has gone up a lot in retrospect.Oliver: How antisemitic is the House of Mirth?Kanakia: That is a hotly debated question, which I mentioned in my book. I think there has been a good case made that Edith Wharton, the author of House of Mirth, who was from an old New York family, was herself fairly antisemitic and did not personally like Jewish people. What she portrays in this book is that this old New York society also was highly suspicious of Jewish people and was organized to keep Jewish people out.In this book there is a rich Jewish man, Simon Rosedale, and there's a poor woman, Lily Bart. Lily Bart's main thing is whether she's going to marry the poor guy, Lawrence Selden, or the rich guy, Percy Gryce. She can't choose. She doesn't want to be poor, but she also is always bored by the rich guys. Meanwhile, through the whole book, there's Simon Rosedale, who's always like, “you should marry me.” He's the rich Jewish guy. He's like, “you should marry me. I will give you lots of money. You can do whatever you want.”Everybody else kind of just sees her as a woman and as a wife; he really sees her as an ally in his social climbing. That's his main motivation. The book is relatively clear that he has a kind of respect for her that nobody else does. Then, over the course of the book, she also gains a lot more respect for him. Basically, late in the book, she decides to marry him, but she has fallen a lot in the world. He's like, “that particular deal is not available anymore,” but he does offer her another deal that—although she finds it not to her taste—is still pretty good.He basically is like, “I'll give you some money, you'll figure out how to rehabilitate your reputation, and later down the line, we can figure something out.” So, I think with a great author like Edith Wharton, there's power in these portrayals. I felt it hard to come away from it feeling like the book is like a really antisemitic book.Oliver: Now, you note that the Great Books movement started out as something quite socially aspirational. Do you think it's still like that?Kanakia: I do think so. Yeah. For me, that's 100 percent what it was because I majored in econ. I always felt kind of inadequate as a writer against people who had majored in English. Then I started off as a science fiction writer, young adult writer, and I was like, “I'm going to read all these Great Books and then I'll have read the books that everybody else has read.” In my mind, that's also what it was—that there was some upper crust or literary society that was reading all these Great Books.That's really what did it. I do think there's still an element of aspiration to it because it's a club that you can join, that anyone can join. It's very straightforward to be a Great Books reader, and so I think there's still something there. I think because the Great Books movement has such a democratic quality to it, it actually doesn't get you to the top socially, which has always been the true, always been the case. But, that's okay. As long as you end up higher than where you started, that's fine.Oliver: What makes a book great?Kanakia: I talk about it this in the book, and I go through many different authors' conceptions of what makes a book great or what constitutes a classic. I don't know that anyone has come up with a really satisfying answer. The Horatian formulation from Horace—that a book is great or an author is great if it has lasted for a hundred years—is the one that seems to be the most accurate. Like, any book that's still being read a hundred years after it was written has a greatness.I do think that T. S. Eliott's formulation—that a civilization at its height produces certain literature and that literature partakes of the greatness of the civilization and summarizes the greatness of the civilization—does seem to have some kind of truth to it.But it's hard, right? Because the greatest French novel is In Search of Lost Time, but I don't know that anyone would say that the France in the 1920s was at its height. It's not a prescriptive thing, but it does seem like the way we read many of these Great Books, like Moby Dick, it feels like you're like communing with the entire society that produced it. So, maybe there's something there.Oliver: Now, you've used a list from Clifton Fadiman.Kanakia: Yes.Oliver: Rather than from Mortimer Adler or Harold Bloom or several others. Why this list?Kanakia: Well, the best reason is that it's actually the list I've just been using for the last 15 years. I went to a science fiction convention in 2009, Readercon, and at this science fiction convention was Michael Dirda, who was a Washington Post book critic. He had recently come out with his book, Classics for Pleasure, which I also bought and liked. But he said that the list he had always used was this Clifton Fadiman book. And so when I decided to start reading the Great Books, I went and got that book. I have perused many other lists over time, but that was always the list that seemed best to me.It seemed to have like the best mix. There's considerable variation amongst these lists, but there's also a lot of overlap. So any of these lists is going to have Dickens on it, and Tolstoy, and stuff like that. So really, you're just thinking about, “aside from Dickens and Tolstoy and George Eliot and Walt Whitman and all these people, who are the other 50 authors that you're going be reading?”The Mortimer Adler list is very heavy on philosophy. It has Plotinus on it. It has all these scientific works. I don't know, it didn't speak to me as much. Whereas, this Clifton Fadiman and John Major list has all these Eastern works on it. It has The Tale of Genji, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Story of the Stone, and that just spoke to me a little bit more.Oliver: What modern books will be on a future Great Books list, whether it's from someone alive or someone since the war.Kanakia: Have you ever heard of Robert Caro?Oliver: Sure.Kanakia: Yeah. I think his Lyndon Johnson books are great books. They have changed the field of biography. They're so complete, they seem to summarize an entire era, epoch. They're highly rated, but I feel like they're underrated as literature.What else? I was actually a little bit surprised in this Clifton Fadiman-John Major book, which came out in 1999, that there are not more African Americans in their list. Like, Invisible Man definitely seemed like a huge missed work. You know, it's hard. You would definitely want a book that has undergone enough critical evaluation that people are pretty certain that it is great. A lot of things that are more recent have not undergone that evaluation yet, but Invisible Man has, as have some works by Martin Luther King.Oliver: What about The Autobiography of Malcolm X?Kanakia: I would have to reread. I feel like it hasn't been evaluated much as a literary document.Oliver: Helen DeWitt?Kanakia: It's hard to say. It's so idiosyncratic, The Last Samurai, but it is certainly one of the best novels of the last 25 years.Oliver: Yeah.Kanakia: It is hard to say, because there's nothing else quite like it. But I would love if The Last Samurai was on a list like this; that would be amazing.Oliver: If someone wants to try the Great Books, but they think that those sort of classic 19th-century novels are too difficult—because they're long and the sentences are weird or whatever—what else should they do? Where else should they start?Kanakia: Well, it depends on what they're into, or it depends on their personality type. I think like there are people who like very, very difficult literature. There are people who are very into James Joyce and Proust. I think for some people the cost-benefit is better. If they're going to be pouring over some book for a long time, they would prefer if it was overtly difficult.If they're not like that, then I would say, there are many Great Books that are more accessible. Hemingway is a good one and Grapes of Wrath is wonderful. The 19th-century American books tend to be written in a very different register than the English books. If you read Moby Dick, it feels like it's written in a completely different language than Charles Dickens, even though they're writing essentially at the same time.Oliver: Is there too much Freud on the list that you've used?Kanakia: Maybe. I know that Interpretation of Dreams is on that list, which I've tried to read and have decided life is too short. I didn't really buy it, but I have read a fair amount of Freud. My impression of Freud was always that I would read Freud and somehow it would just seem completely fanciful or far out, like wouldn't ring true. But then when I started reading Freud, it was more the opposite. I was like, oh yeah, this seems very, very true.Like this battle between like the id and the ego and the super ego, and this feeling that like the psyche is at war with itself. Human beings really desire to be singular and exceptional, but then you're constantly under assault by the reality principle, which is that you're insignificant. That all seemed completely true. But then he tries to cure this somehow, which does not seem a curable problem. And he also situates the problem in some early sexual development, which also did not necessarily ring true. But no, I wouldn't say there's too much. Freud is a lot of fun. People should read Freud.Oliver: Which of the Great Books have you really not liked?Kanakia: I do get asked this quite a bit. I would say the Great Book that I really felt like—at least in translation—was not that rewarding in an unabridged version was Don Quixote. Because at least half the length of Don Quixote is these like interpolated novellas that are really long and tedious. I felt Don Quixote was a big slog. But maybe someday I'll go back and reread it and love it. Who knows?Oliver: Now you wrote that the question of biography is totally divorced from the question of what art is and how it operates. What do you think of George Orwell's supposition that if Shakespeare came back tomorrow, and we found out he used to rape children that we should—we would not say, you know, it's fine to carry on to doing that because he might write another King Lear.Kanakia: Well, if we discovered that Shakespeare was raping children, he should go to prison for that. No. It's totally divorced in both senses. You don't get any credit in the court of law because you are the writer of King Lear. If I murdered someone and then I was hauled in front of a judge and they were like, oh, Naomi's a genius, I wouldn't get off for murder. Nor should I get off for murder.So in terms of like whether we would punish Shakespeare for his crime of raping children, I don't think King Lear should count at all, but it's never used that way. It's never should someone go to prison or not for their crimes, because they're a genius. It's always used the other way, which is should we read King Lear knowing that the author raped children, but I also feel like that is immaterial. If you read King Lear, you're not enabling someone to rape children.Oliver: There's an almost endless amount of discussion these days about the Great Books and education and the value of the humanities, and what's the future of it all. What is your short opinion on that?Kanakia: My short opinion is that the Great Books at least are going to be fine. The Great Books will continue to be read, and they would even survive the university. All these books predate the university and they will survive the university. I feel like the university has stewarded literature in its own way for a while now and has made certain choices in that stewardship. I think if that stewardship was given up to more voluntary associations that had less financial support, then I think the choices would probably be very different. But I still think the greatest works would survive.Oliver: Now this is a quote from the book: “I am glad that reactionaries love the Great Books. They've invited a Trojan horse into their own camp.” Tell us what you mean by that.Kanakia: Let's say you believed in Christian theocracy, that you thought America should be organized on explicitly Christian principles. And because you believe in Christian theocracy, you organize a school that teaches the Great Books. Many of these schools that are Christian schools that have Great Books programs will also teach Nietzsche. They definitely put some kind of spin on Nietzsche. But they will teach anti-Christ, and that is a counterpoint to Christian morality and Christian theology. There are many things that you'll read in the Great Books that are corrosive to various kinds of certainties.If someone who I think is bad starts educating themselves in the Great Books, I don't think that the Great Books are going to make them worse from my perspective. So it's good.Oliver: How did reading the Mahabharata change you?Kanakia: Oh yeah, so the Mahabharata is a Hindu epic from, let's say, the first century AD. I'm Indian and most Indians are familiar with the basic outline of the Mahabharata story because it's told in various retellings, and there's a TV serial that my parents would rent from the Indian store growing up and we would watch it tape by tape. So I'm very familiar with it. Like there's never been a time I have not known this story.But I was also familiar with the idea that there is a written version in Sanskrit that's extremely long. It is 10 times as long as the Iliad and the Odyssey combined. This Mahabharata story is not that long. I've read a version of it that's about 800 pages long. So how could something that's 10 times this long be the same? A new unabridged translation came out 10 years ago. So I started reading it, and it basically contains the entire Sanskrit Vedic worldview in it.I had never been exposed to this very coherently laid-out version of what I would call Hindu cosmology and ethics. Hindus don't really get taught those things in a very organized way. The book is basically about dharma, the principle of rightness and how this principle of rightness orders the universe and how it basically results in everybody getting their just deserts in various ways. As I was reading the book, I was like, this seems very true that there is some cosmic rebalancing here, and that everything does turn out more or less the way it should, which is not something that I can defend on a rational level.But just reading the book, it just made me feel like, yes, that is true. There is justice, the universe is organized by justice. It took me about a year to read the whole thing. I started waking up at 5:00 a.m. and reading for an hour each morning, and it just was a really magical, profound experience that brought me a lot closer to my grandmother's religious beliefs.Oliver: Is it ever possible to persuade someone with arguments that they should read literature, or is it just something that they have to have an inclination toward and then follow someone's example? Because I feel like we have so many columns and op-eds and “books are good because of X reason, and it's very important because of Y reason.” And like, who cares? No one cares. If you are persuaded, you take all that very seriously and you argue about what exactly are the precise reasons we should say. And if you're not persuaded, you don't even know this is happening.And what really persuades you is like, oh, Naomi sounds pretty compelling about the Mahabharata. That sounds cool. I'll try that. It's much more of a temperamental, feelingsy kind of thing. Is it possible to argue people into thinking about this differently? Or should we just be doing what we do and setting an example and hoping that people will follow.Kanakia: As to whether it's possible or not, I do not know. But I do think these columns are too ambitious. A thousand-word column and the imagined audience for this column is somebody who doesn't read books at all, who doesn't care about literature at all. And then in a thousand-word column, you're going to persuade them to care about literature. This is no good. It's so unnecessary.Whereas there's a much broader range of people who love to read books, but have never picked up Moby Dick or have never picked up Middlemarch, or who like maybe loved Middlemarch, but never thought maybe I should then go on and read Jane Austen and George Eliot.I think trying to shift people from “I don't read books at all; reading books is not something I do,” to being a Great Books card-carrying lover of literature is a lot. I really aim for a much lower result than that, which is to whatever extent people are interested in literature, they should pursue that interest. And as the rationalists would say, there's a lot of alpha in that; there's a lot to be gained from converting people who are somewhat interested into people who are very interested.Oliver: If there was a more widespread practice of humanism in education and the general culture, would that make America into a more liberal country in any way?Kanakia: What do you mean by humanism?Oliver: You know, the old-fashioned liberal arts approach, the revival of the literary journal culture, the sort of depolitical approach to literature, the way things used to be, as it were.Kanakia: It couldn't hurt. It couldn't hurt is my answer to that question.Oliver: Okay.Kanakia: What you're describing is basically the way I was educated. I went to Catholic school in DC at St. Anselm's Abbey School, in Northeast, DC, grade school. Highly recommend sending your little boys there. No complaints about the school. They talked about humanism all the time and all these civic virtues. I thought it was great. I don't know what people in other schools learn, but I really feel like it was a superior way of teaching.Now, you know, it was Catholic school, so a lot of people who graduated from my school are conservatives and don't really have the beliefs that I have, but that's okay.Oliver: Tell us about your reading habits.Kanakia: I read mostly ebooks. I really love ebooks because you can make the type bigger. I just read all the time. They vary. I don't wake up at 5:00 a.m. to read anymore. Sometimes if I feel like I'm not reading enough—because I write this blog, and the blog doesn't get written unless I'm reading. That's the engine, and so sometimes I set aside a day each week to read. But generally, the reading mostly takes care of itself.What I tend to get is very into a particular thing, and then I'll start reading more and more in that area. Recently, I was reading a lot of New Yorker stories. So I started reading more and more of these storywriters that have been published in the New Yorker and old anthologies of New Yorker stories. And then eventually I am done. I'm tired. It's time to move on.Oliver: But do you read several books at once? Do you make notes? Do you abandon books? How many hours a day do you read?Kanakia: Hours a day: Because my e-reader keeps these stats, I'd say 15 or 20 hours a week of reading. Nowadays because I write for the blog, I often think as I'm reading how I would frame a post about this. So I look for quotes, like what quote I would look at. I take different kinds of notes. I'll make more notes if I'm more confused by what is going on. Especially with nonfiction books, I'll try sometimes to make notes just to iron out what exactly I think is happening or what I think the argument is. But no, not much of a note taker.Oliver: What will you read next?Kanakia: What will I read next? Well, I've been thinking about getting back into Indian literature. Right now I'm reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. But there's an Indian novel called Jhootha Sach, which is a partition novel that is originally in Hindi. And it's also a thousand pages long, and is frequently compared to Les Miserables and War and Peace. So I'm thinking about tackling that finally.Oliver: Naomi Kanakia, thank you very much.Kanakia: Thanks for having me. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.commonreader.co.uk

It's time for a very important H-word to be introduced to Harry. No, Fat Lady, it's not the one you experienced over your holiday break! Join the MuggleCasters as we discuss Chapter 17 of Half-Blood Prince, in which Dumbledore introduces Harry to 'A Sluggish Memory'. The Fat Lady seems to be telling herself to practice abstinence after the holidays. Sounds like it was a party in the portraits over Christmas! How do students end up missing the new Common Room passwords? Is it the school's fault, or is it the students? It's time for the students to learn how to apparate! ... For a price. We look at why Hogwarts and the Ministry might be charging for these additional lessons. Dismissive Dumby: Albus' ego is on full display as he plays off Harry's questions about Snape and Draco. As expected, Andrew comes in with a #DumbleDefense.  Back in the memories, Dumbledore shows Harry more about Tom Riddle's time at Hogwarts. Why didn't Dumbledore do more when Tom Riddle was at school and clearing causing trouble? We learn the real reason Dumbledore asked Slughorn back to teach, and we hear that certain H-word a first time (No, it's not 'Hufflepuff' or 'Horace') Connecting the Threads: There are some big parallels between Chapter 17 of Chamber of Secrets, and this Chapter of Half-Blood Prince! MVP: Which memory truly is THE most important memory Dumbledore has collected? Lynx Line: You've just learned to Apparate. Where are you going first? Quizzitch: While Lord Voldemort commits patricide by killing Tom Riddle Sr., what is the broader term used when someone kills a near-relative of theirs such as a grandparent? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Broadway star Nick Rashad Burroughs is in London playing Horace in Todrick Hall's musical Midnight at Sadlers Wells East.Nick made his Broadway debus as an Angel and Billy Porter's understudy for Lola in Kinky Boots. He went on to do King Kong on Broadway, before being part of the original Broadway cast of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, initially in the show's ensemble before taking over the role of Ike Turner. Nick's other theatre credits include playing Lautrec in the US tour of Moulin Rouge, Minstrel and cover Shakespeare in the US tour of Something Rotten as well as lots of US regional theatre where he has played roles like Donkey in Shrek, Seaweed in Hairspray, Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar and he was also Jimmy Early in Dreamgirls at The Muny. Nick has worked on screen, he has recorded original music and performed on ships all over the world.Nick has been best friends with Marisha Wallace for years, and last year performed with her at the Adelphi Theatre as part of her big solo show and live album. In this episode Nick discusses joining the cast of Midnight and collaborating with Todrick Hall and Marisha Wallace once again. He also delves into the path of his career from his Broadway debut to the biggest and proudest moments of his career.Midnight runs at Sadlers Wells East until 8th March. Visit www.sadlerswells.com for info and tickets. Follow Nick on Instagram: @nickrburroughsThis podcast is hosted by Andrew Tomlins @AndrewTomlins32 Thanks for listening! Email: andrew@westendframe.co.uk Visit westendframe.co.uk for more info about our podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In this episode, Kevin sits down with Marine officer, author, and founder of Parent Child Connect, Olaolu Ogunyemi, to explore a powerful leadership tension.In a world that celebrates charisma, authority, and strong personalities, Olaolu argues that real influence begins somewhere else. It begins with connection.From becoming a father at 19 to leading Marines at 22, Olaolu's journey reshaped his understanding of leadership, insecurity, vulnerability, faith, and trust. He shares why “lead last” is more than a slogan. It is a discipline. A posture. A way of building environments where people feel seen, safe, and understood.This conversation is about parenting, leadership, mentorship, and the kind of inner growth that changes the way you show up everywhere.Key TakeawaysConnection builds trust faster than charismaLeadership starts with self awarenessInsecurity can be fuel or sabotageMentorship changes life trajectoriesParenting and leadership sharpen each otherBudgeting your time is budgeting your influenceFaith grounds decision making under pressureGuest BioOlaolu Ogunyemi is a U.S. Marine Officer, award winning children's book author, mentor, and founder of Parent Child Connect. He is the author of Crow From the Shadow, Billy Dipper's Time to Shine, and Horace the Horsefly, and is currently writing a leadership book titled Lead Last. His work centers on building trust driven relationships rooted in discipline, faith, and intentional connection.Connect with Olaolu OgunyemiWebsite: https://parent-child-connect.comAmazon:https://www.amazon.com/author/olaolu_ogunyemiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olaolu-ogunyemi-465ba453Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/olaolu.ogunyemi/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCcR7d3yzZXfzcBfxveyP-gConnect with KevinX @kevinspeaks2uLinkedIn @kevinmcnultyspeaksFacebook @kevinrichardmcnultyInstagram @kevinmcnultyspeaksLinkTree https://linktr.ee/kevinmcnulty#Leadership #PersonalGrowth #Parenting #Veterans #FaithAndWork #GrowYourself

While researching for her Done & Dunne podcast, Alicia came across a story right up our alley: a scandalous affair, secret marriages, secret divorces, bigamy, and all set in America's Wild West. Meet Horace Tabor, once one of America's richest men and briefly a US Senator for Colorado, his long-suffering wife Augusta, and the mistress Horace couldn't wait to wed, again and again, Baby Doe Tabor. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Entre tragédies bouleversantes et comédies pinçantes, le théâtre athénien avait le don de toucher les Hommes.Dans ce podcast, je vous propose de découvrir comment cet art est apparu dans la cité d'Athéna, puis comment des grands noms comme Eschyle et Sophocle l'ont rendu immortel.Le rideau se lève, les génies entrent en scène.Sources antiques :Aristophane : Les Acharniens, Les Cavaliers, Les Nuées, Les Guêpes, La Paix, Les Thesmophories, Les Grenouilles.Aristote : Poétique, La Constitution d'Athènes.Diodore de Sicile : Bibliothèque Historique (Livre 4).Eschyle : Les Perses.Euripide : Les Bacchantes, Le Cyclope, Électre.Hérodote : Histoire (Livre 6).Horace : l'Art poétique.Isocrate : La Paix.Pausanias : Description de la Grèce (Livre 1).Platon : Apologie de Socrate.Plutarque : Vie de Solon, Vie de Thémistocle, Vie de Kimon, Vie de Périclès, Vie de Nicias, Vie de Lysandre, La Gloire des Athéniens, Propos de table, De l'amour des richesses, Traité d'Isis et d'Osiris.Thucydide : Guerre du Péloponnèse (Livre 1).Sources modernes :Paul Foucard : Le culte de Dionysos en Attique (1909)Pièce classique citée :Corneille : Le Cid.Insta : atlas.anecdotes

Welcome to Exponential View, the show where I explore how exponential technologies such as AI are reshaping our future. I've been studying AI and exponential technologies at the frontier for over ten years. Each week, I share some of my analysis or speak with an expert guest to make light of a particular topic. To keep up with the Exponential transition, subscribe to this channel or to my newsletter: https://www.exponentialview.co/ ----- In this episode, I sit down with my friend Rohit Krishnan - writer of the Substack newsletter Strange Loop Canon - for a hands-on conversation about what it actually looks like to build with AI agents today. Between us we're burning through tens of billions of tokens a month - I hit nearly 100 million in a single day this week - and we share what we're each running on our own machines. We dig into the quirks and surprising power of tools like OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Cowork, debate why AI remains stubbornly bad at good writing, and zoom out to ask what a world of trillions of agents might actually look like — and what economic infrastructure it will need. We covered: (03:15) What's on your screen right now? (04:30) OpenClaw (06:27) Rohit's agent, Morpheus (11:06) Azeem's agent, R. Mini Arnold (19:25) The analyst is now a machine (22:36) 100 million tokens in a day: the new normal (24:44) Building tools to improve AI writing: Horace and Broca (32:19) Why writing is the hardest eval for LLMs (39:18) Towards a trillion agents (42:09) The agentic economy: coordination, identity, and exchange (46:33) How to get started with OpenClaw (51:18) The hardest leap for new users ----- Where to find me: Exponential View newsletter: https://www.exponentialview.co/ Website: https://www.azeemazhar.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azhar/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/azeem Production by EPIIPLUS1 Production and research: Baba Films, Chantal Smith, Marija Gavrilov. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Guest Include:   - Drew Trafton, Forum Content Director    - Nathan Hoots, Maple River girls basketball head coach    - Kyle Cummings, Horace boys basketball head coach  

Podcast Jazztime 708 – 17.02.26 Folgende Titel sind zu hören : 1. You got to funkifize – Tower of Power 4:31 2. Horace-scope – Horace Silver 4:44 3. Have you met Miss Jones ? – George Shearing 4:26 4. Amazone Blues – Henri Texier 5:57 5. Nankan Ride -Tobias Fronhöfer 4:42 6. One Day I'll fly away – Nils Landgren with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra 5:37 7. No more blues – Dizzy Gillespie 6:00 Für Titelwünsche und Anregungen schreiben Sie gern an : jazztime.mv@ndr.de Keep Swingin' !!!

Rev. Horace Sheffield, III Gets Candid on Way Up With Angela Yee + More Bloody Valentine Tell Us A Secret Ask YeeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Shanley and Horace met for the 2nd time this season, as Shanley was looking to get redemption from a loss earlier in the year, while Horace was looking for a series sweep. Check out the highlights right here!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stupid News Extra 2-12-2026 …The Legend of William Horace Coltharp

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This week the whole gang sits down to talk about the merry pranks of one Mr. Horace de Vere Cole who Sarcastro points out was basically the Tom Green of his time.  They also solidify some meals for their Guys Weekend trip which will include a journey to Waffle House for Corporal and Banky.  Fatty poses a would you rather scenario based on an article he found about a man who was mistakenly given 1.1 million dollars by his bank and had the choice between repaying the remaining 300,000 dollars that had not been transferred out of his account or doing a year in prison.   Intro and Outro music written and performed by Andrés Rodríguez (Androzguitar) 

On the 116th episode of Shirley's Temple, I sat with Ricco Ross, aka Horace from Beauty In Black! Listen as we discuss his friendship w/ Tabitha Brown, modeling w/ Naomi Campbell, being 1 of 11 children & providing for his family, Tyler Perry not being able to kill him off in Beauty In Black, being w/ his wife 23 years, meeting Keke Palmer & more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week, Lunar New Year has arrived at the resort, along with some new merchandise, Monsters, Inc turns 20, Sweethears Nite kicked off last week, Downtown Disney continues towards two new experiences, Bay Area Weeklyteers have a chance to connect our book club with the Walt Disney Family Museum, we talk about Disneyland Handcrafted, and more! Please support the show if you can by going to https://www.dlweekly.net/support/. Check out all of our current partners and exclusive discounts at https://www.dlweekly.net/promos. News: Lunar New Year kicked off last week, and with it came some new merchandise. A new Loungefly Lunar New Year crossbody bag with detachable coin purse for $75, a removable-bow ear headband for $36.99, and a Spirit Jersey decorated with lanterns and gold-accented clouds for $84.99 are some of the new items. A Lunar New Year teacup featuring Horace, Mickey and Minnie for $19.99, and a six-piece lucky red envelope set for $19.99 are some of the collectables. Magic Key holders have two exclusive items - a Lunar New Year tee priced at $36.99, and a commemorative trading pin for $21.99. - https://www.micechat.com/430352-disneyland-update-lunar-lights-sweethearts-nite-construction-heights/ Last week, Monsters, Inc. Mike and Sully to the Rescue turned 20! Cast members had a small number of buttons to give out if asked. The buttons featured Roz with party decorations flying around, with some scream canisters and a “20 Years of Scares” banner. The attraction won't be around for another 20 though, as it is set to close this year to make way for the upcoming Avatar experience. - https://www.micechat.com/430352-disneyland-update-lunar-lights-sweethearts-nite-construction-heights/ Last week also marked the first Sweethearts Nite of the season. This year, the checkin was back in Frontierland at the entrance to Galaxy's Edge where guests could pick up their lanyard, map, and pack of Dove chocolates for the event. Some of the themed photo areas this time were the rooftops of Paris for the Aristocats, the balcony from Aladdin, a Toontown picnic, and the “Kiss the Girl” scene from The Little Mermaid. Some uncommon characters were also around like Oswald the Lucky Rabbit with Ortensia, Princess Kida and Milo Thatch from Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and The Country Bears offering Bear Hugs. The new Celebrate Love Cavalcade, and Once Upon A Dream show were fun additions to the after dark event. - https://www.laughingplace.com/disney-parks/disneyland-after-dark-sweethearts-nite-2026/ https://www.laughingplace.com/disney-parks/disneyland-after-dark-sweethearts-nite-characters/ Downtown Disney is continuing to be a bustling area full of construction. Porto's Bakery & Cafe is coming along as the demolition of the former Earl of Sandwich location is moving along. The old building should be completely cleared soon. Gordon Ramsay visited the resort to check on the progress of Gordon Ramsay at The Carnaby, which will be located upstairs from the new Earl of Sandwich. The sign for this location has been revealed already, with rumors that soft openings could happen in the next couple of months. - https://www.laughingplace.com/disney-parks/portos-bakery-construction-update-downtown-disneyland-resort/ https://www.laughingplace.com/disney-parks/gordan-ramsay-visits-disneyland-resort-the-carnaby/ For our book club read this time, we will be diving into Groundbreaking Magic: A Black Woman's Journey Through the Happiest Place on Earth. If you will be in the San Francisco Bay Area in February, the Walt Disney Family Museum will be hosting a talk with Disney Legend Martha Blanding, the author of the book, along with Disney historian Marcy Carriker Smothers. The talk is on Saturday, February 14th at 1pm. Tickets are on sale now for $15 for members, or $30 for adults. For more information, visit the link in the show notes. - https://www.laughingplace.com/disney-parks/disney-legend-martha-blanding-walt-disney-family-museum/ SnackChat: Napa Rose has been undergoing an extensive refurbishment, and was originally slated to open before the end of 2025. That was pushed back and will finally be reopening on February 6th. Reservations are open now to book a spot to dine at this location. There is also a new menu at the location. - https://disneyparksblog.com/dlr/napa-rose-reopening-date/ Discussion Topic: Disneyland Handcrafted - https://disneyparksblog.com/disney-experiences/how-to-watch-the-debut-of-disneyland-handcrafted/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Today is Tuesday, January 27. Here are the latest headlines from the Fargo, North Dakota area. InForum Minute is produced by Forum Communications and brought to you by reporters from The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead and WDAY TV. For more news from throughout the day, visit InForum.com.

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Der Genfer Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, der am 22. Januar 1799 starb, gilt als Begründer der Alpenforschung und des Alpinismus. Er bestieg zahlreiche Berge, führte Messungen durch, entwickelte dazu sogar eigene Messgeräte. Er schrieb zudem Bücher, die damals den Blick auf die Alpen veränderten.

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Rubrique:nouvelles Auteur: alexandre-dumas Lecture: Daniel LuttringerDurée: 17min Fichier: 12 Mo Résumé du livre audio: "Chacun était resté à la même place, le regardant en silence, car il y avait dans cet homme quelque chose d'extraordinaire qui commandait l'attention. On sentait une de ces organisations puissantes que souvent la nature, comme par caprice, s'amuse à enfermer dans un corps qui semble trop faible pour la contenir aussi le comte paraissait-il composé de contrastes. Pour ceux qui ne le connaissaient pas, il avait l'apparence faible et languissante d'un homme atteint d'une maladie organique; pour ses amis et ses compagnons, c'était un homme de fer, résistant à toutes les fatigues, surmontant toutes les émotions, domptant tous les besoins…" Cet enregistrement est mis à disposition sous un contrat Creative Commons.

Once the lighting situation's been handled in the Prescott home, an entirely new and different complication arises, and one with far more chilling implications!  Gather up the whole family and get somewhere safe, because death has come to Castle Kilmarnock, and it doesn't care if you were already on your way out, nobody's safe and anything could happen!Episode 3 of 4Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Alcohol/Drug Use, Depictions of Injury, Gore, ProfanityGeorge Prescott is SteveJaime Prescott is RoySusanne Prescott is HarmThis actual play production of ‘The Sins of the Father'  is a Real Play Games Podcast production.  Call of Cthulhu® is a registered trademark of Chaosium, Inc.  This podcast uses trademarks and/or copyrights owned by Chaosium Inc/Moon Design Publications LLC, which are used under Chaosium Inc's Fan Material Policy. We are expressly prohibited from charging you to use or access this content. This podcast series is not published, endorsed, or specifically approved by Chaosium Inc. For more information about Chaosium Inc's products, please visit www.chaosium.com.  The Sins of the Father is written by Brendan Lahey, and can be purchased in PDF or print form via the Miskatonic Repository on www.drivethrurpg.com.https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/380136/the-sins-of-the-father-a-call-of-cthulhu-scenarioOur theme song “Christmas Music Box” is performed by SplashStudio and used under a commercial license which includes synch licensing.If you want to reach out to the Real Play Games Podcast, feel free to email us at realplaygamespodcast@gmail.com or reach us on Tumblr under RealPlayGamesPodcast or on Bluesky @realplaygamespod.bsky.social.  If you'd like to help support the show, as well as get early access to episodes, exclusive episodes, and behind-the-scenes looks at how we make our adventures, head on over to www.patreon.com/realplaygamespod and become a Patron today!  Thanks for listening!Support the show

Mayor-elect Mary Sheffield's dad the Rev. Horace Sheffield III talks about what it's like to be father of the first […]

Guests include:  Mike McFeely, Forum of Fargo-Moorhead Columnist; Dave Richman, NDSU men's basketball head coach and; Kyle Cummings, Horace boys basketball head coach

Rubrique:nouvelles Auteur: hippolyte-lucas Lecture: Daniel LuttringerDurée: 14min Fichier: 9 Mo Résumé du livre audio: "Il avait lu je ne sais où, peut-être dans le charmant conte de Thomas Moore, l'Épicurien, que les anciens divinisaient la mort et la faisaient assister volontiers, sous forme de statue voilée, à leurs somptueux banquets, afin de rappeler à l'homme là brièveté de la vie, et l'inviter à profiter dé l'heure présenté ; Carpe Diem, dit Horace ; cette fois, sans mettre Amandine dans sa confidence, puisque c'était une leçon qu'il voulait lui donner, il convia sa société habituelle à un banquet athénien..." Cet enregistrement est mis à disposition sous un contrat Creative Commons.

Today is Thursday, Dec. 11. Here are the latest headlines from the Fargo, North Dakota area. InForum Minute is produced by Forum Communications and brought to you by reporters from The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead and WDAY TV. For more news from throughout the day, visit InForum.com.

Unraveling the Mystery: Love's Crossroads: A ProposalThe story revolves around a heartfelt proposal where one party expresses a desire to marry, leading to a moment of tension as the other party declines the offer, creating a complex emotional landscape.In the heart of a bustling city, loneliness can creep in like an uninvited guest. "Love's Crossroads: A Proposal," a suspenseful radio play starring Dane Clark, delves into the depths of solitude and the unexpected twists that follow. This gripping tale, presented by Roma Wines, takes listeners on a journey through the shadows of human emotion and the unforeseen events that can change everything.The Story Unfolds: Eddie Lewis, portrayed by Dane Clark, finds himself in a whirlwind of emotions as he navigates the streets of New York. The story begins with Eddie's encounter with an enigmatic old man, Horace, who introduces him to a mysterious woman named Jolly. As Eddie's feelings for Jolly grow, so does the complexity of their relationship. The narrative takes a dark turn when Jolly's sister, Evelyn, becomes entangled in a web of deceit and tragedy.A Twist of Fate: The plot thickens as Eddie discovers the truth behind Jolly's disappearance and the sinister motives of those around him. The suspense builds to a crescendo, leaving listeners on the edge of their seats. With each revelation, the line between love and betrayal blurs, culminating in a dramatic confrontation that tests Eddie's resolve and courage."Love's Crossroads: A Proposal" is a masterful blend of suspense and emotion, capturing the essence of human vulnerability and the lengths one will go to uncover the truth. As the story unfolds, listeners are reminded of the power of connection and the impact of loneliness on the human spirit. Tune in to experience this captivating tale, brought to life by the talented cast and the timeless allure of Roma Wines.Subscribe Now: Don't miss out on more thrilling stories like "A Guy Gets Lonely." Subscribe for the latest updates and insights into the world of suspense and drama.TakeawaysThe importance of timing in proposals.Rejection can lead to deeper self-reflection.Communication is key in relationships.Understanding each other's feelings is crucial.Decisions can change the course of relationships.Emotional vulnerability can be both rewarding and painful.The impact of a proposal on a relationship's dynamics.Navigating rejection requires empathy and understanding.Honesty in relationships fosters trust.Every decision carries weight in personal relationships.proposal, marriage, rejection, relationship, decision-making

In this episode, TC, Mel and Sam take a look at the relationship between Horace Slughorn and his Slug Club members. How did he pick candidates? What made him not invite the 3rd generation of the Malfoys? What motivated Horace to form the Slug Club? Who almost made it into the Slug Club? Listen and decide!  Don't forget to visit our social medias to answer this episode's Show Host Question: “If the Harry Potter books were a play that could only take place in one room, where would you place it?”  *** Spoilers, Adult Language, Adult Themes Music note: All music are excerpts of the Pottership Shanty (Copyright: Darwin Ray and the Pottership Podcast.)  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram! Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, or iHeart Radio podcasts! Or send us a message at PottershipPodcast@gmail.com

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Isolated with no means to communicate with the outside world, Horace and the other survivors must attempt a desperate trek through miles of wilderness before nightfall. 

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The gang is subjected to the suspicious gaze of a trio of cultists, and Horace gets intimately familiar with a swamp of bees.  ---  Credits:  Sarah Fox: Beetle Baby Markus Ristich: Horus Albright  Stacey Sellars: Naerra Corstay  Matt Klassen:  The Dungeon Mattster  ---  Support the Show! https://www.patreon.com/sarahellisfox    Connect with Us!  https://discord.com/invite/pQme6WV 

与视频播客「限时虚构」主理人龍韻闲聊节目的第二部分。根据孟获习惯的，也是当代文艺生活的主流三种媒体形式「书影音」，包雪龙、龍韻和孟获分别推荐了三本图书，三部影视或动画作品，三个音乐作品。但显然，我们的条件和边界都没有事先沟通，聊天也蔓延到了很多之前未曾想到的领域。不过，这大概就是闲聊之要义吧。欢迎去Bilibili 关注《限时虚构》，你也可以在「小宇宙」等平台关注声音版的《限时虚构》《文学远征》，以及鹤无粮老师的公众号《塔中之塔》。如果你喜欢这类节目，请在留言区和我们互动。也别忘了给「声波飞行员」在「爱发电」平台上打赏，增加我们继续飞行下去的动力，谢谢。时间轴： 0:00:03 BGM#1. Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm - Symphony No.9 In D Minor Op.125 - Choral3. Adagio molto e cantabile 0:02:18 规则介绍；「限时虚构」E06 - 私人电影大赏：这些年我们看过的好电影；「限时虚构」E04 - 私人图书大赏：这十年我们看过的好书（和烂书）； 0:03:04 第一本书：《金魅殺人魔術》by 新日嵯峨子 0:06:25 第二本书：《星之继承者》系列三部曲（1/2/3） by 詹姆斯·P·霍根，仇春卉译； 0:07:58 第三本书：《你的谜题由我作答 2》 by 纸城境介； 0:10:31 第四本书：《象之首》 by 白井智之； 0:11:38 关于《三体》系列与刘慈欣； 0:16:57 第五本书：《要命还是要灵魂》 by Anne Fadiman，汤丽明 / 刘建台 / 杨佳蓉 译； 0:19:45 第六本书：《月光狂想曲》 by 迈克尔·夏邦，孙璐译； 0:20:55 第七本书：《犹太警察工会》 by 迈克尔·夏邦，陈震译； 00:22:04 第八本书：《阴影线：一部自白》 by 约瑟夫·康拉德，徐成译； 00:23:36 第九至十二本书：《木心全集》《鲁迅全集》《托尔斯泰全集》《尼采全集》； 00:24:25 《文学回忆录 1989-1994》 木心 讲述 / 陈丹青 笔录； 00:25:46 托尔斯泰《战争与和平》与《伊凡·伊里奇致死》； 00:26:11 鲁迅的《故事新编》； 00:26:38 尼采的《朝霞》；「现代人读尼采是一个长骨头的过程」； 00:28:36 「不要羞于去推荐经典」 00:29:21 第一部影视作品：笑之大学 笑の大学 (2004)； 00:31:52 第二部影视作品：12个温柔的日本人 12人の優しい日本人 (1991)； 00:33:17 第三部影视作品：「古畑任三郎」系列 1995-2006； 00:35:45 关于编剧三谷幸喜； 00:36:47 第四部影视作品：百年酒馆 Horace and Pete (2016)；关于Louis C.K. 的一个同性恋笑话； 00:38:16 第五部影视作品：四月三周两天 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile (2007)；另一个现代的美国版本：从不，很少，有时，总是 Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)； 00:41:27 第六部影视作品（那个关于小孩儿的）：四百击 Les quatre cents coups (1959)；关于男主让-皮埃尔·利奥德 Jean-Pierre Léaud 和他主演，Aki Kaurismäki 导演的电影：我聘请了职业杀手 I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)； 00:43:14 第七部影视作品：奥丽芙·基特里奇 Olive Kitteridge (2014)； 00:43:57 关于公认最伟大的TV 连续剧：火线 The Wire；关于略萨（Mario Vargas Llosa）的一点讨论； 00:47:55 第八部影视作品：五至七时的克莱奥 Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962)； 00:50:50 第九部影视作品：阿拉伯的劳伦斯 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)； 00:53:32 关于影像的奇迹：疯狂的麦克斯4：狂暴之路 Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)；头号玩家 Ready Player One (2018)； 00:54:45 第十部影视作品：昨日欢愉 Old Joy (2006)； 00:58:14 BGM#2. 周杰伦 - 反方向的钟 伴奏版（去鼓轨） 01:00:32 第一个音乐作品：周杰伦 - 十一月的萧邦； 01:01:23 第二个音乐作品：陈奕迅 DUO 演唱会 2010； 01:01:45 第三个音乐作品：贝多芬《D小调第九交响曲》Op.125； 01:02:28 关于周杰伦；阿张RayZhang 的视频：「从夯到拉！锐评周杰伦的所有专辑！上」「腥风血雨！从夯到拉！锐评周杰伦的所有专辑！下」； 01:05:00 第四个音乐作品：Girl Dead Monster - Keep The Beats! 01:06:22 第五个音乐作品：Sia - This Is Acting 01:07:08 第六个音乐作品：珂拉琪 Collage - MEmento·MORI；YouTuber 视频「珂拉琪〈萬千花蕊慈母悲哀〉外表看似跳躍，結構卻過於常人的歌詞｜聽歌職業病」by 朱宥勳使出人生攻擊! 01:08:11 BGM#3. 珂拉琪 Collage - 萬千花蕊慈母悲哀 01:12:05 关于张雨生《口是心非》、重轻的音乐常识类播客节目；关于保留自己的感受力； 01:16:01 第七个音乐作品：野孩子：二十周年专场音乐会 2015；一部电影：抓壮丁 (1963)； 01:20:24 第八个音乐作品：野外合作社 - 台风； 01:22:08 BGM#3. 野外合作社 - 复活 01:28:01 关于《台风》之中被删掉的三首歌：上帝的意志、八十九、复活； 01:28:57 3+1位音乐人；什么是「可以重复欣赏的艺术」； 01:34:17 第九个音乐作品：陈建年 - 海洋； 01:36:40 魏德圣《賽德克·巴萊》（太陽旗、彩虹橋）；杨德昌《一一》《牯嶺街少年殺人事件》与侯孝贤《悲情城市》；其他的华语电影创作者； 01:42:40 BGM#4. Sia - Unstoppable 01:43:14 结束语；记得去关注「限时虚构」与「文学远征」。参与录音： 龍韻 @「限时虚构」 包雪龙 / 孟获 @「声波飞行员」

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The Obscuary team stops at a crash site and try to determine its cause.Join us on Discord!Follow us on Twitter at @maeltopiaWant additional perks like extra lore, stories, art, and more? Check out our Patreon at: www.patreon.com/maeltopiaWant unique art and animations to go along with your Maeltopia episodes? Check out our Youtube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmmrdXEvkEPfQvCKT4pha4QWant to learn more about the world of Maeltopia? Check out our website!Be sure to like, comment, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast platform! We appreciate your support!Credits:Written by Steven AnzaloneEdited by Walker KornfeldSound mastering by Steven J. Anzalone--Helena voiced by Kelly BairMum voice by Steven AnzaloneVance voiced by Steven Anzalone (voice mask)Felix Yarrows played by Steven AnzaloneGretchen voiced by Steven Anzalone(voice mask)Horace voiced by Sam StarkCoojis voiced by Mark AnzaloneTagus voiced by Mark AnzaloneEcho voiced by Matt Van HoveWoman soldier voiced by Aubrey AkersSoldier 1 voiced by Steven AnzaloneMusic and Sound effects are licensed from third party providers including Envato, Epidemic Sound, Artlist, Soundstripe, Music Vine, Soundcrate, Melodie, Storyblocks and Pond 5, Motion Array, and lickd

The Obscuary team stops at a crash site and try to determine its cause.Join us on Discord!Follow us on Twitter at @maeltopiaWant additional perks like extra lore, stories, art, and more? Check out our Patreon at: www.patreon.com/maeltopiaWant unique art and animations to go along with your Maeltopia episodes? Check out our Youtube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmmrdXEvkEPfQvCKT4pha4QWant to learn more about the world of Maeltopia? Check out our website!Be sure to like, comment, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast platform! We appreciate your support!Credits:Written by Steven AnzaloneEdited by Walker KornfeldSound mastering by Steven J. Anzalone--Helena voiced by Kelly BairMum voice by Steven AnzaloneVance voiced by Steven Anzalone (voice mask)Felix Yarrows played by Steven AnzaloneGretchen voiced by Steven Anzalone(voice mask)Horace voiced by Sam StarkCoojis voiced by Mark AnzaloneTagus voiced by Mark AnzaloneEcho voiced by Matt Van HoveWoman soldier voiced by Aubrey AkersSoldier 1 voiced by Steven AnzaloneMusic and Sound effects are licensed from third party providers including Envato, Epidemic Sound, Artlist, Soundstripe, Music Vine, Soundcrate, Melodie, Storyblocks and Pond 5, Motion Array, and lickd