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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @02:26AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @02:26AM (#445708)

    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

    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.

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 27 2016, @11:43AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 27 2016, @11:43AM (#446311) Journal

    "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

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @02:17PM (#446342)

      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

      by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Wednesday December 28 2016, @10:23PM (#446873) Journal

      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 Saturday December 31 2016, @09:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @09:01PM (#447943)

    > 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

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday January 03 2017, @01:01PM (#448877) Journal

    you'll emerge a better person.

    I take it you never read it then.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday January 09 2017, @08:23AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 09 2017, @08:23AM (#451369) Journal

      you'll emerge a better person.

      I take it you never read it then.

      I take you don't know how he was before being the better person he is now.

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