gregoryamato.bsky.social
Norse fantasy writer. Former FBI intelligence analyst. Sometime homebrewer. Reasonable Judo black belt. AmatoAuthor.com
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Step one: Let poor people have easier access to stablecoins.
Step two:
Step three: Poor people profit.
Thanks, but I'll stick to stealing underpants.
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Headley's translation is described as feminist, but I would call it modern and exciting. Heaney's translation gets all the attention. I do own it, and I like the pictures. But for pure translation and content helping to understand the poem, I prefer Shippey's.
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@alreadyoverbook.bsky.social I know you'd be interested in this.
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Campaign funded and Project We Love status obtained!
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Cool imagery and description aside, I'm reading this 100% due to that guy's "oh shit" expression.
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Nice. Would not even have guessed "maelstrom" so you never know!
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Lamentable that some spaces were not based on some of the more restrained Scandinavian death metal, but I'll take it.
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This sounds awesome! Definitely including a link in my next newsletter.
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I can't read Duffy's quote without hearing Grandpa Simpson's voice. It's like he's about to explain why he has an onion tied to his belt at any given moment.
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Just now remembered a screenshot I took yesterday because of this.
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"undahweahr made outtah someone else’s intestines. It’d be even wohrse ’en weahrin’ a fuckin’ Yankees shihrt, yah know?"
I do.
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I definitely liked one over the other-was glad to see we were on the same page there.
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Lemme thumb through to the middle of the index where I think there's a ring around the answer.
Pinky.
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I never did understand the lesson or history intended with this story.
Nuada: If you just use water for the plants-
Everyone else: Whoa there, buddy, there's no way you know how to make decisions with just one arm! We'll use ale. It's got the taste plants crave.
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Beowulf and Hrolf Kraki's Saga both have a lot adapted from them in by first book, Burden to Bear. That and I don't know how many myths from the Eddas, references to the Volsungs, Hervor and Heidrek, and Arrow-Odd.
Of not my books: The Hammer and the Cross series by Harry Harrison and Tom Shippey.
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.Here's a link to the original cartoon so he gets the clicks he deserves. www.gocomics.com/tomthedancin...
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Nice cover!
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No novella to enter from me, but I will be looking around here for new titles to add to my TBR.
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Planning on a new series that goes deep into ancient British myths, myself, so I think I'll add these to the TBR!
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It's happier than reading the news, if that helps.
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Beard style over size.
How many heroic characters sport the pointed goatee?
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Shippey originally published the book in 2000, but boy, did he seem to be channeling present-day Elon Musk.
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“One sees ‘Sandyman’s disease’ in an advanced form in Saruman: it starts as intellectual curiosity, develops as engineering skill, turns into greed and the desire to dominate, corrupts further into a hatred and contempt of the natural world which goes beyond any rational desire to use it.”
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"But these are human qualities, too."
Really modern ones.