fagiano

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   by fagiano 15y ago

   In "Genius" Harold Bloom lists 100 authors. I trust his judgement more than mine so I'm slowly working my way through his choices.
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   by fagiano 15y ago

   It's leisure I think.
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   by fagiano 15y ago

   ... and the two giants of western literature Shakespeare and Dante. We can't gloss over Joyce and Proust. And "Don Quixote", surely we can't miss that. Maybe Milton. Montaigne? And the Greeks, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides at least. Mo
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   by fagiano 15y ago

   "Go to a market in Italy and try to buy anything without haggling. They can negotiate the price of a $10 necklace." Maybe this happens to tourists but it is definetely not the rule for locals.