[HN Gopher] The Call of the Weird
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       The Call of the Weird
        
       Author : benbreen
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2024-03-28 05:46 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | treetalker wrote:
       | https://archive.is/seaoF
        
       | throwanem wrote:
       | As ever with the London Review, one may apprehend the occasional
       | glimmering of a possible point among the masses of discursive
       | digression, but may never accrue enough evidence to be confident
       | of its actual presence.
        
         | zemvpferreira wrote:
         | I've been reading the LRB since I was a kid (30 years ago) and
         | I'm not sure what happened: Did I grow up or has it taken a
         | nosedive? Seems like the reviews have become meandering, and
         | increasingly political. I used to learn so much from each
         | article and now I can't bring myself to finish a whole paper.
        
       | Animats wrote:
       | Mandatory XKCD reference.[1]
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       | [1] https://xkcd.com/1235/
        
       | ranprieur wrote:
       | This has similar ideas to this review that was posted here a few
       | weeks ago:
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       | https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/marshall-sahlins-n...
        
       | devindotcom wrote:
       | Lang's Fairy Books are interesting though obviously very "of the
       | time," as we say. But in those and his work editing the Folk-Lore
       | Journal (of which I have a few volumes) he was taking on or
       | nurturing some really serious anthropological literary work.
       | Check out up Sidney Hartland's The Forbidden Chamber, which
       | establishes Bluebeard tales as a "type" seen across multiple
       | cultures and times.
       | 
       | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Folk-Lore_Journal/Volume_...
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       | Really interesting stuff. His translations with Leaf and Myers
       | are nice but not exactly poetry, I wouldn't recommend them to
       | anyone as a first read of the Iliad.
        
       | nuc1e0n wrote:
       | When times are tough our fantasies become more vivid. They are a
       | tool to help us analyse our difficulties from a novel perspective
       | and thus to overcome them.
        
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