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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 28 2008, 06:23 PM (640 Views) | |
| dagoss | Feb 28 2008, 06:23 PM Post #1 |
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Warning: the following is the most erotic story you will ever hear. So I went to the university archives today to look into the story of how we got a hold of all for Folios of Shakespeare. I've never done achieve work before so I was just like sifting through letters and and book seller records and stuff. Anyway, this guy walks up to me and plops down the first and second Folios on the table! They let me put on gloves and read them! Unfortunately, I was not permitted to take off my pants.  So! How many cornerstones of western culture did you fondled today?? None? Well I fondled two! |
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| dataDyne | Feb 29 2008, 07:13 AM Post #2 |
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I drank a beer today. Does that count? |
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| Ragedy | Feb 29 2008, 02:18 PM Post #3 |
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That's about as exciting as English class. |
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| dagoss | Feb 29 2008, 04:08 PM Post #4 |
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That depends. Did you fondle it? Random fact #1! There are more than three times as many first Folios in the US than there are in the UK (I think Scotland has 3 -- go Alxbly!). Near the beginning of the 20th century, we realized we had no history so we started stealing theirs. This is just further proof that American literature is worthless.
I know! It is as exciting as English class!
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| dataDyne | Feb 29 2008, 05:03 PM Post #5 |
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I detect a little sarcasm, sonny jim laddy boy. You mean to say you don't find English class exciting? 
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| Rapueda (retired) | Mar 1 2008, 06:10 PM Post #6 |
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That's a hot story. But I think we're going to need photos or a video to verify your claim, dagoss. You might just be making it all up.
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| floorcat | Mar 2 2008, 02:11 PM Post #7 |
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Yessss... proof of violation would be a must. I for one, HAVE had the privilege of sullying ancient texts with my degenerative presence... AND I have proof. Well... more or less.  A few years back, I was invited by one of my Professors and a visiting Scholar/scroll-expert from Japan to study a special emaki (picture scroll), kept in the back stocks of the Denver Art Museum... requiring a special entry into the museum and a very up-close-and-personal look at the text in question.Text: Two-scroll Isozaki emaki (from the late Muromachi period)... predating your silly western Folios by at least a century. Proof: So far, just my temp. badge... |
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| Arch Evil | Mar 2 2008, 02:43 PM Post #8 |
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STOP... TEASING ME... WITH PICS OF PROFESSOR LAYTON!!!  Oh wait... badge...  Sry my bad congrats with your (temp) badge
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| dagoss | Mar 2 2008, 09:37 PM Post #9 |
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That doesn't count. Everyone knows that Asia was inhabited by barbarians and opium addicts until Europeans gave them the gift of forced Christianity and the privilege of relinquishing their natural resources for our use. Random fact #2: In the second Folio, there is a poem among the leaves of verses entitled "An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet W. Shakespear" and no author is mentioned. It is actually written by John Milton and it is his very first published work! |
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| Ragedy | Mar 2 2008, 09:50 PM Post #10 |
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No, not at all. It's pointless, I can speak English. Good thing it's finally not compulsory next year. Now History on the other hand is the greatest subject of all. |
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| Mr.378 | Mar 2 2008, 10:10 PM Post #11 |
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I have learned something about all of you today
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| dataDyne | Mar 3 2008, 04:16 AM Post #12 |
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No, History is the second greatest subject of all! |
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| dagoss | Mar 3 2008, 06:14 PM Post #13 |
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Historical accounts are generally textual accounts (i.e. literary). The study of history is essentially the study of human narrative, which makes what historians do pretty much identical to what literary people do. Except we were here first. |
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| Ragedy | Mar 3 2008, 11:13 PM Post #14 |
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Except English is a crap subject. I like to learn about things that ACTUALLY HAPPENED.  Learning about the history of a word or the rhyme scheme of a poem... 
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| dagoss | Mar 4 2008, 02:57 PM Post #15 |
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Literature definitely "happened". If you want to know more about the English Revolution that the dry facts, you need to read Paradise Lost and Milton's political tracts. If you want to know about the people living under the reign of Elizabeth, you need to look towards the stage. Dates only get you so far. Facts in and of themselves are much more subjective the Historians generally lead people to believe. Despite what you might think, people like Shakespeare and Dickens were once explosively popular. Clearly you are suffering from the ridiculousness that is high school English. |
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| Ragedy | Mar 6 2008, 03:55 AM Post #16 |
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Except for fiction Those books and plays give you just as much of an idea of history as any account from someone at the time, usually without the crap in the middle. I do actually have Paradise Lost (And Regained...) on my bookshelf, but I'm reading other things right now. I don't see higher forms of English getting anymore exciting. |
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| dagoss | Mar 12 2008, 11:14 AM Post #17 |
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The Ragedy is clearly an alt account for Deku Link -- that is the only way to explain the substandard content of his recent posts! I am currently in the university archives with my laptop. The second folio is right in front of me as I type this!! Why am I posting right now then, you ask? Turns out, transcribing things is the most boring activity in the world. |
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| floorcat | Mar 12 2008, 09:28 PM Post #18 |
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You oughtta try doing it when the source is in classical Japanese.
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| dagoss | Mar 13 2008, 01:20 PM Post #19 |
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I can't imagine how unsatisfying that would be. You probably spend hours and hours just to nail down a single paragraph. The only consolation must be how impressive it sounds. Floorcat: "I can read classical Japanese." Woman: "I want to have your baby!" |
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