It’s the first weekend of November, so it’s time to open up the November Open Thread.
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Sorry to be missing your Brothers Karamazov livestream in a few hours, but I’ve been up late taking some strange literary quiz in Japan . . . and failing miserably with my mostly wrong answers. Well, not so much wrong, but refusing to guess at the many answers I didn’t know.
Here are the four questions James asked Tim that I amazingly got right:
the Globe TheatreAreopagitica (props to James’ “The Matrix”)the Beat movementBleak HouseAnd here are the five correct answers I scored out of the questions Tim asked James:
Don QuixoteHunter S. ThompsonDramatic ironythe French RevolutionIcelandEven though I didn’t know the answer to the Lyrical Ballads question, James, you won’t find it strange to hear that I favor one of the closing stanzas in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
“He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.”
That sentiment doesn’t exactly match the modern meme of Socrates selling fried chicken in ancient Greece, does it? 🙁
Thanks to you three guys for the laughs and the learned lessons in literature (yes, three of you, because Broc contributed fun video and audio clips).
Loved it! Great to see you two together – such fun.
Looking forward to Brothers Karamazov of which I have only read the introduction…