Any suggestions for an off-the-record fiction reading and discussion?
My apologies to anyone who might have been looking forward to a group discussion of "God Is Dead". If someone else wants to start a thread discussing that book, I might join in, but for the moment we're looking for a candidate with a little more support.
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possible candidates for a (thus far) unofficial fiction read
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If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquility of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved, Caesar would have spared his country, America would have been discovered more gradually, and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed. -- Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus"
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Actually, this might be a good time to consider reading Voltaire's "Candide", which has been the topic of some small debate in this thread.
If you don't already have a copy, I'd suggest this one, for the spiffy cover design. Either that, or the Norton Critical Edition, which is what I have.
If you don't already have a copy, I'd suggest this one, for the spiffy cover design. Either that, or the Norton Critical Edition, which is what I have.
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I put Candide on order at the library. Should arrive next week. Anyone else? I plan to read it regardless.MadArchitect wrote:Actually, this might be a good time to consider reading Voltaire's "Candide", which has been the topic of some small debate in this thread.
If you don't already have a copy, I'd suggest this one, for the spiffy cover design. Either that, or the Norton Critical Edition, which is what I have.
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Yes, but with the emphasis on the DEED and not on the CAN. Maybe Dictionary.com has the pronunciation. They do. I just checked. But you have to be a premium user to get access to the pronunciation feature now. They used to offer this feature for free.
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Thats why I capitalized the DEED. And I did the DEED too, the dirty DEED.Chris OConnor wrote:Yes, but with the emphasis on the DEED and not on the CAN. Maybe Dictionary.com has the pronunciation. They do. I just checked. But you have to be a premium user to get access to the pronunciation feature now. They used to offer this feature for free.
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I've usually said cahn-DEED -- I'm not sure if you guys meant a short or a long "a" on the first syllable, but I've always used the short.
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According to the pronunciation hey on Dictionary.com it can be pronounced both ways. But way down at the bottom of the page it has a foot note that makes it crystal clear that the only completely correct way of pronouncing any and all words is the way Chris O'Connor pronounces them. Seriously. It's there. Right at the bottom.
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