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Fred Jenkins
Fred Jenkins is on page 134 of 568 of The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Seven chapters in; just getting past the intro/background material and into the main part of the book.
Aug 01, 2025 09:22AM Add a comment
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

Fred Jenkins
Fred Jenkins is on page 60 of 568 of The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Happy to see mention of Ladislav Zgusta, whom I remember from grad school at Illinois. Several friends studied Hittite with him.

Anthony made at least one howler: he claims that the Mycenaeans were unaware of the empire of the Hittites. Has he never heard of the Ahhiyawa documents? Not exactly a recent discovery.
Jul 29, 2025 06:19PM Add a comment
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

Fred Jenkins
Fred Jenkins is on page 283 of 720 of The Poetry of Rilke
Finished New Poems, starting Duino Elegies.
Jul 28, 2025 03:58PM Add a comment
The Poetry of Rilke

Fred Jenkins
Fred Jenkins is on page 20 of 568 of The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
I have read bits and pieces of this before, now working through the whole. The first chapter is a nice overview of IE studies, not much new.
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

Fred Jenkins
Fred Jenkins is on page 25 of 88 of Água Viva
I don't know what I am writing about. I am obscure to myself.
Jul 07, 2025 02:41PM Add a comment
Água Viva

Fred Jenkins
Fred Jenkins is on page 139 of 384 of School of Shards (Vita Nostra, #3)
"They can feel it," Sasha said with a sigh. "It's like a shadow in your peripheral vision, something you can't look at directly, yet it is always there. It must be quite unpleasant. But people get used to everything."


He mused at how deftly the routine had constructed itself. Like a salt crystal or a snow flake. How easily ordinary rationalizations draped themselves over insane facts.
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School of Shards (Vita Nostra, #3)

Fred Jenkins
Fred Jenkins is 80% done with The Devils (The Devils, #1)
"Never fuck with a librarian."
Jun 24, 2025 06:41PM 2 comments
The Devils (The Devils, #1)

Fred Jenkins
Fred Jenkins is 40% done with The Devils (The Devils, #1)
"It had been a busy few weeks for Alex. She had been declared heir to the throne of Troy, met the Pope, been attacked by pig-men and a burning sorceress, watched a mob calmed by a speech about dumplings, and seen a severed head talk. You'd have thought she would've been past surprises."
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The Devils (The Devils, #1)

Fred Jenkins
Fred Jenkins is 10% done with The Devils (The Devils, #1)
"An ineffectual priest, an enervated knight, a misanthropic elf, and an antique vampire. It sounded like the start of a bad joke to which the tragic punchlinewas yet to be revealed."
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The Devils (The Devils, #1)

Fred Jenkins
Fred Jenkins is on page 61 of 230 of Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
His approach to the orthodox historians of the English language is to take a sledgehammer to a gnat. While McWhorter is quite convincing, the repeated hammer blows get a bit tedious.
Jun 08, 2025 07:15PM Add a comment
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English

Fred Jenkins
Fred Jenkins is on page 191 of 720 of The Poetry of Rilke
Und dann und wenn ein weißer Elefant.
Jun 05, 2025 10:29AM Add a comment
The Poetry of Rilke

Fred Jenkins
Fred Jenkins is on page 250 of 500 of City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)
And later she sat in the little room she rented over a tea shop whose proprietor was all for chaos and division so long as we could also sit and have a properly civilized cup of tea.
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City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)

Fred Jenkins
Fred Jenkins is on page 101 of 720 of The Poetry of Rilke
"like a word ripening in silence"
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The Poetry of Rilke

Fred Jenkins
Fred Jenkins is on page 724 of 912 of 2666
"yet again the sword of fate severs the head from the hydra of chance."
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Fred Jenkins
Fred Jenkins is on page 586 of 912 of 2666
Now more than halfway through the very long Part about the Crimes. A depressing chronicle of brutality and corruption. I can see why it is the fourth of five. If it were the first, I would had Dnf'd this after a few pages.
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Fred Jenkins
Fred Jenkins is on page 406 of 912 of 2666
The biggest collection of phobias outside of the DSM: sacraphobia, gephyrophobia, claustrophobia, agoraphobia, necrophobia, hemophobia, peccatophobia, clinophobia, tricophobia, verbophobia, vestiphobia, iatrophobia, gynophobia, ombrophobia, thalassophobia, anthopobia, dendrophobia, optophobia, pedophobia, ballistophobia, tropophobia, agyrophobia, chromophobia, nyctophobia, ergophobia, decicophobia, anthrophobia, etc.
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Fred Jenkins
Fred Jenkins is on page 240 of 912 of 2666
"From the collection of prehistoric rocks there arose a kind of quicksilver, the American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis."
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