Three quick things
Aug. 31st, 2006 10:52 am1. Thought things were slow enough to risk hopping back on LJ and email yesterday. Man, was I wrong. I was pretty much battered from 10-5 or so. Not fun. Not going to try to spend time online today.
2. We got to meet
mnfiddledragon last night! Had a wonderful dinner at Maggiano's, followed by hanging out with her. She's just as nifty in real life as on LJ.
3. While I'm diving back into the pit of despair, boggle at the stupidity of Fundamentalists talking about Beowulf.
2. We got to meet
3. While I'm diving back into the pit of despair, boggle at the stupidity of Fundamentalists talking about Beowulf.
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Date: 2006-08-31 02:58 pm (UTC)The whole thing reads like a Middle School student's term paper. Maybe it is.
This is my favorite line: "Pagans valued human strength, vengeance, boasting, and treasure gained by plunder. The poem extols all of these and not Christian virtues."
Yeah, cause as a Pagan, I'm all about the treasure and plundering my neighborhood, ya know? *headdesk*
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Date: 2006-08-31 03:46 pm (UTC)Ditto. That was my first thought.
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Date: 2006-08-31 03:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-31 03:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-31 03:33 pm (UTC)(And I'm using this icon because I don't have a Norse one)
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Date: 2006-08-31 03:39 pm (UTC)To counteract this article, a link to the BEST translation of Beowulf: Beowulf:The New Verse Translation (http://www.amazon.com/Beowulf-A-New-Verse-Translation/dp/0393320979/sr=8-1/qid=1157038298/ref=sr_1_1/002-4321678-2764819?ie=UTF8)
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Date: 2006-08-31 06:26 pm (UTC)