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Every year, I commit to a slow reading of a major literary work. Last year, I chose Robert Alter’s recent English translation of The Hebrew Bible. I wrote about my experience here:

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https://antiblog.ericmatthewrichardson.com/posts/hebrewbible/

"My lungs began to crow like Chanticleer, That fools should be so deep contemplative." - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It" (Act 2, Scene 7) #ShakespeareSunday #BookChatWeekly #LiteratureSky #ShakespeareSky #Shakespeare #Literature #Poetry #Theatre #Theater

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"My lungs began to crow like Chanticleer, That fools should be so deep contemplative." - William Shakespeare, "As You Like It" (Act 2, Scene 7) #ShakespeareSunday #BookChatWeekly #LiteratureSky #ShakespeareSky #Shakespeare #WilliamShakespeare #Literature #Poetry #Theatre #Theater

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#literatureSky #Psychoanalysis Do #writers have any imagination at all? Or do they merely regurgitate onto a page, what they’ve heard, seen, smelled & touched, jumbled up with words entrenched in their subconscious Is it just compulsion to unload, that is then run through a grammar & spellcheck

Then I had my martial arts phase with #books Collected 100s that will never be read But these stick out as proper, proper basics for the soul to absorb #literaturesky

#LiteratureSky #Books The only 2 books to read when I was stuck in a place for 33 days at 17, with nothing else to do Day of Jackal was in Swedish, but I’d seen the movie. The food wasn’t great either, butter bean soup & baguette with weevils, or chick pea soup with cus-cus…. every fekking day