Book Snob Pinnacle

[John Cole]

M,

If you can drag your ass down to Lincoln, RI, next Tuesday, poet Edward Hirsch will be reading on campus at noontime. He's one of the best in the US, and has written a couple very good general books on poetry, including How To Read a Poem.

[Duke]

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I have easily surpass Natedogg and even John Cole

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have... surpassed

Would you like a copy of Oxford's Guide to Writing?

~D

[jakethebake]

Have I found it? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Zeno]

That's next on the list. Though I agree with Scrub that the misspelling of concede was the high point of the tread.

Everyone had a chance to be a snob in this thread, so mission accomplished, and I shot myself in the foot to boot. This should put all in a good mood and start their day out on the correct footing. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

-Zeno

[jakethebake]

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"Yosa Buson is a towering figure in the history of haiku.

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New high point in the thread?

"This is roughly the equivalent to being the greatest ballerina in all of Galveston." - Charles Emerson Winchester III

[Zeno]

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......thereby obviating the need for removing my glasses to read the damn small print version or resorting to a microscope.


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This can be frustrating. In a few more years, I suppose, the dictionary and thesaurus will be useless to me except as ornamental doorstops or conversation pieces.

-Zeno

[Topflight]

Using paper dictionaries instead of the internet just so you can brag about it does sound very Bookie. Good Job!

[sfer]

True book snobbery is claiming to have read War and Peace "in the Russian." Like Condi Rice did in a New Yorker profile a couple of years ago.

[scrub]

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Using paper dictionaries instead of the internet just so you can brag about it does sound very Bookie. Good Job!

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You've obviously never gotten a chance to flip through the OED (although flipping through Zeno's two volume OED wouldn't be that much fun without a good magnifying glass). Internet dictionaries are fine for looking up specific words, but they're no fun to browse. Looking up a word in the OED often turns into an adventure of its own.

Open stacks libraries, paper card catalogs, and print dictionaries are worth preserving.

scrub

[scrub]

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True book snobbery is claiming to have read War and Peace "in the Russian." Like Condi Rice did in a New Yorker profile a couple of years ago.

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That whole profile was pretty strange. I thought the best line was when she dismissed some supposed bigot by saying "I am better at your culture than you are." I don't remember the line or context exactly, but it stuck with me as a weird way to look at music and literature.

scrub