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Offline David In Indy

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Re: Mary Renault Book Discussion
« Reply #160 on: January 13, 2007, 02:16:02 am »
and it is not a big book....it reads very easily, goes down very smoothly!!

you will love it and have all the others in no time!



What do you mean by "all the others"?

How many books did this woman write?

Is she paying you a commission or somthing?  ;)
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Re: Mary Renault Book Discussion
« Reply #161 on: January 13, 2007, 02:17:58 am »
....and if it reads so easily, how come it took ya'll 2 weeks just to get to chapter 3?

I'm kidding Jess. I probably will end up buying it.  :)
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Re: Mary Renault Book Discussion
« Reply #162 on: January 13, 2007, 02:19:37 am »
those two chapters were only eleven pages total!!

we are just very passionate about it!! LOL!!

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Re: Mary Renault Book Discussion
« Reply #163 on: January 13, 2007, 02:22:10 am »
Hell, you all are being more than passionate.... you're making love to the damn thing.

Again, I jest.  ;)
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Re: Mary Renault Book Discussion
« Reply #164 on: January 13, 2007, 02:28:08 am »
Hell, you all are being more than passionate.... you're making love to the damn thing.

Again, I jest.  ;)

well the next chapter is 28 pages long!! so everyone kick off your shoes and loosen your belts...we gonna be here a while...

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Re: Mary Renault Book Discussion
« Reply #165 on: January 13, 2007, 02:32:23 am »
well the next chapter is 28 pages long!! so everyone kick off your shoes and loosen your belts...we gonna be here a while...

People will be putting their Christmas trees back up by the time you all finish discussing that chapter.

Hunker down.
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Re: Mary Renault Book Discussion
« Reply #166 on: January 13, 2007, 02:36:04 am »
I need to get my ass to bed Jess. I'll talk to ya tomorrow!  :)

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Re: Mary Renault Book Discussion
« Reply #167 on: January 13, 2007, 02:46:05 am »
night night!

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Re: Mary Renault Book Discussion
« Reply #168 on: January 13, 2007, 03:39:02 am »
MR put a lot of wisdom in the words she gave Socrates...how much of it was actual quotes from the real Socrates and how much she made up I don't know. (It is my understanding that Socrates left no written records of his teachings and the only things we know of him are from the writings of contempories including Plato)

:laugh:  I am literally bent over, wailing with laughter here  :laugh: What do you two do for a living? You're a couple of comedy writers, aren't you? You are both lightning fast!  Boom-boom!  :o I am left floundering in your superior wake!  :(

Here's a couple of interesting quotes under "Socrates" from the "Oxford Classical Dictionary" (Oxford University Press). It's a loooong entry. These stood out for me personally:

"No one is wiser than Socrates" - the Delphic Oracle (i.e., the God Apollo, speaking through the Pythian priestess)

"He was remarkable for his unflinching courage, both moral and physical, and his strong sense of duty. Together with this went an extremely genial and kind temperament and a keen sense of humour, while he was obviously a man of the greatest intellectual ability."

"He had no set of positive doctrines to teach. None the less his influence on subsequent thought was undoubtedly very great."

"He may be regarded as the inspiration  for the development , not only of moral philosophy, but also of logic."

Gasp! Impressive, indeed!



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Re: Mary Renault Book Discussion
« Reply #169 on: January 13, 2007, 03:42:19 am »
sometimes it is not so much what everyone thinks that is important...sometimes for our own souls we have to do as WE think is important...

Beautifully expressed, Jess.  :)
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