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Twenty-nine victims, most of them children, after a school collapsed during an earthquake in Italy. Here.

And I complain about two days' lack of productivity?

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Twenty-nine victims, most of them children, after a school collapsed during an earthquake in Italy. Here.

And I complain about two days' lack of productivity?

Boggle.

Is anyone reading this familiar with Georg Lukács, specifically his The Theory of the Novel?

He talks about the epic in there, and - I must be thinking in the wrong direction or something, because everything he's saying is ringing patently untrue. One potential problem is that all I know from the epic genre are Song of Roland, some (not a lot) of The Odyssey, and odds and ends from Eastern Europe.

If you'd like to discuss, e-mail me or (if you don't have the address) comment on this entry. I'd appreciate either finding out what it is I'm missing, or a reassurance that I'm not completely insane.

Boggle.

Is anyone reading this familiar with Georg Lukács, specifically his The Theory of the Novel?

He talks about the epic in there, and - I must be thinking in the wrong direction or something, because everything he's saying is ringing patently untrue. One potential problem is that all I know from the epic genre are Song of Roland, some (not a lot) of The Odyssey, and odds and ends from Eastern Europe.

If you'd like to discuss, e-mail me or (if you don't have the address) comment on this entry. I'd appreciate either finding out what it is I'm missing, or a reassurance that I'm not completely insane.