(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @05:06PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday December 25 2016, @05:06PM (#445807)
Lowly book-writing Russians knowing more math than most Americans of the same age. Imagine that!
Tolstoy was of nobility with independent wealth, and Dosty was a city intellectual, though often suffering financial difficulty, and both were the preeminent writers in their own lifetime.
I sorta somewhat agree with the sentiment. Dostoevsky is superior to Shakey. But, a great author doesn't render a good author useless - merely less useful. And, IMHO, Shake isn't nearly as good as he is touted to be. I just never got into his stuff. Maybe all the silly women teachers who gushed over him turned me off to him.
The big triumph of Shakespeare is not really the story, but the format, that is ALOT of Iambic pentameter, even if half the content is utter garbage. I am still not convinced Shakespeare was not a group think.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @02:26AM
Yeah the dog shit I scraped off my shoe last week that still sits by my front walk knows more math than most Americans, of any age.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @05:06PM
Tolstoy was of nobility with independent wealth, and Dosty was a city intellectual, though often suffering financial difficulty, and both were the preeminent writers in their own lifetime.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 27 2016, @11:43AM
"renders Shakespeare utterly useless"
I sorta somewhat agree with the sentiment. Dostoevsky is superior to Shakey. But, a great author doesn't render a good author useless - merely less useful. And, IMHO, Shake isn't nearly as good as he is touted to be. I just never got into his stuff. Maybe all the silly women teachers who gushed over him turned me off to him.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @02:17PM
They are of melodramatic theatre format diminishing a certain sense of gravita, so less appealing to male readers I think.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Wednesday December 28 2016, @10:23PM
The big triumph of Shakespeare is not really the story, but the format, that is ALOT of Iambic pentameter, even if half the content is utter garbage. I am still not convinced Shakespeare was not a group think.
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @09:01PM
> Thanks a lot, school. 3-4 chapters of a text doesn't count
Especially if you didn't finish coloring all of them.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday January 03 2017, @01:01PM
I take it you never read it then.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday January 09 2017, @08:23AM
I take you don't know how he was before being the better person he is now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday January 09 2017, @04:49PM
Until he relapses as he does from time to time.