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    <updated_at>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:47:09 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[logo-chronic, son.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[is currently reading: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/551635.Nonnos_Dionysiaca_Volume_I_Books_1_15">Nonnos: Dionysiaca, Volume I, Books 1-15 (Loeb Classical Library No. 344)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/302992.Nonnos">Nonnos</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:26:34 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Just about every ancient epic is &quot;flawed&quot; in some way: Aeneas is an unsympathetic, emotionally dead neo-fascist, The Iliad suffers from bouts of episodic tedium and gore, Apollonius and Ovid can be too learned and cute for their own damn good, and god help you if you want to read Lucan's C...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/Just%20about%20every%20ancient%20epic%20is%20%22flawed%22%20in%20some%20way:%20Aeneas%20is%20an%20unsympathetic,%20emotionally%20dead%20neo-fascist,%20The%20Iliad%20suffers%20from%20bouts%20of%20episodic%20tedium%20and%20gore,%20Apollonius%20and%20Ovid%20can%20be%20too%20learned%20and%20cute%20for%20their%20own%20damn%20good,%20and%20god%20help%20you%20if%20you%20want%20to%20read%20Lucan's%20Civil%20War.%20So,%20why%20do%20we%20take%20stock%20of%20Nonnos'%20spiraling%20verbiage,%20flat%20characters%20and%20fragmented%20narrative%20(seeming%20flaws)%20and%20declare,%20%22fail!%20no%20read!%22%20and%20at%20the%20same%20time%20canonize%20other%20ancient%20epic%20poets%20despite%20their%20shortcomings%3F%20I%20can%20not%20say%20for%20sure,%20but%20I%20think%20it%20has%20something%20to%20due%20with%20the%20Dionysiaca's%20length%20(48%20books),%20late%20date%20(5th%20century%20AD)%20and%20vivid,%20rich,%20even%20'un-Classical'%20literary%20style.%20But%20I%20say%20%22enough!%22%20Nonnos%20explores%20mimesis%20and%20artifice%20with%20Nabokovian%20obsession,%20delves%20into%20the%20vast%20depths%20of%20the%20literature%20that%20came%20before%20him%20like%20a%20late%20antique%20Joyce,%20and%20winds%20up%20producing%20a%20work%20as%20expansive,%20meaningless%20and%20mystical%20as%20any%20Pynchon%20tome.%20It%20is%20time%20for%20Classicists%20to%20put%20aside%20their%20prejudices%20of%20what%20great%20ancient%20literature%20should%20be%20and%20appreciate%20the%20Dionysiaca%20for%20what%20it%20is.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[is currently reading: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46987.The_Hearing_Trumpet">The Hearing Trumpet (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/26359.Leonora_Carrington">Leonora Carrington</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:35:35 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3218296.The_Challenge_of_Epic_Allusive_Engagement_in_the_Dionysiaca_of_Nonnus">The Challenge of Epic: Allusive Engagement in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum) (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1367344.Robert_E_C_Shorrock">Robert E. C. Shorrock</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:32:17 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Shorrock does a fairly good job of validating Nonnus position among the ancient epic poets. All in all he treats Nonnus epic with a level of critical respect that is long overdue.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:12:44 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[indeed it is. indeed he does.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509.The_Invention_of_Love">The Invention of Love (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/293.Tom_Stoppard">Tom Stoppard</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:33:34 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Seeing as I have spent almost the last decade of my life toiling in the trenches of a dying Classics department, this work was bound to have a particular and personal appeal for me. But beyond that The Invention of Love is a most eloquent rumination on the psychic tension that arises from inspiratio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/Seeing%20as%20I%20have%20spent%20almost%20the%20last%20decade%20of%20my%20life%20toiling%20in%20the%20trenches%20of%20a%20dying%20Classics%20department,%20this%20work%20was%20bound%20to%20have%20a%20particular%20and%20personal%20appeal%20for%20me.%20But%20beyond%20that%20The%20Invention%20of%20Love%20is%20a%20most%20eloquent%20rumination%20on%20the%20psychic%20tension%20that%20arises%20from%20inspiration%20and%20intellect,%20art%20and%20scholarship%20and%20the%20sublimation%20of%20desire%20-%20all%20set%20against%20the%20backdrop%20of%20a%20repressed%20Victorian%20England%20on%20the%20cusp%20of%20the%20modern%20age.%20I%20might%20also%20add%20that%20Stoppard%20writes%20with%20a%20learning%20and%20nuance%20that%20is%20rarely%20encountered%20in%20this%20day%20and%20age.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/298222.The_House_That_Trane_Built_The_Story_of_Impulse_Records">The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/56201.Ashley_Kahn">Ashley Kahn</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:18:05 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Kahn tackles the story of Impulse with the same well-researched, narrative-rich approach he used for his Kind of Blue and A Love Supreme books.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:14:11 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[this is true. just giving the old think-muscle a little 'tone.']]></body>
        
    
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