@grangarden.bsky.social Thank you, that’s a nice blog post. Here’s the text on ctext:
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@samuelwa.de This is basically me, except I’ve never read Banks, I suppose I’ll have to do something about that.
Hope is also something I associate with the Narnia books. I must have read them fifteen times at an impressionable age.
Didn’t make me catholic, though, but it did do something…
@jmulich.bsky.social Apart from the already mentioned I occasionally listen to The Reporter’s The Real Story (www.twreporter.org/categories/p…) and 声东击西 (etw.fm).
@olawikander.bsky.social Reminds me of when I took Cantonese at Lund University ages ago and we used to make puns that only were funny if you understood Cantonese and skånska. Sadly I’ve since lost most of both languages.
@grangarden.bsky.social If you do find the time I’d be grateful, but I know moving house is exhausting.
@grangarden.bsky.social Well, this is what mid-life crisis does to you. I’d probably be better off binge-watching old seasons of Taskmaster with the kids, but I suppose it’s less harmful than buying a motorcycle or having an affair…
@johnfsullivan.bsky.social There’s an entire little speech there where Ziyu dismantles the rituals-based world-order in 638 BCE.
@johnfsullivan.bsky.social 寡人雖亡國之餘，不鼓不成列，
[The Duke of Song said]: “I am but a vestige of a lost realm but I don’t beat the battle drums to attack those that have not formed their ranks.”
[…]
子魚曰，君未知戰
Ziyu said: “My Lord does not understand war”
@aohsusometimesy.bsky.social Cool! I’m rereading Ong and Havelock right now for exactly that reason. There are a couple of more recent books in his article.
You don’t happen to have come across any other work on this topic?
Article (paywalled):
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