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7/24/2025, 4:43:25 PM
7/13/2025, 10:10:53 PM
>>24546744
>1
>lexicon of the khazars, or something from Vollmann perhaps.
>2
>Is this from Callimachus, or some other poet of the Hellenistic period?
>4
>I suspect this is from Pope.
All pretty logical, but can’t be right because these authors are not in the Author List at the beginning. I probably should have left those names unspoilered, because the quiz is hard and I was intending that people should look at them.
Also worth noting: this is all people quoting the Ancient Greeks or alluding to them somehow. It doesn't include any Ancient Greek writers themselves. (A couple of modern Greeks are in there.) The oldest is a Roman or two.
>7
>The Myth of Sisyphus
This one is good. Albert Camus.
>1
>lexicon of the khazars, or something from Vollmann perhaps.
>2
>Is this from Callimachus, or some other poet of the Hellenistic period?
>4
>I suspect this is from Pope.
All pretty logical, but can’t be right because these authors are not in the Author List at the beginning. I probably should have left those names unspoilered, because the quiz is hard and I was intending that people should look at them.
Also worth noting: this is all people quoting the Ancient Greeks or alluding to them somehow. It doesn't include any Ancient Greek writers themselves. (A couple of modern Greeks are in there.) The oldest is a Roman or two.
>7
>The Myth of Sisyphus
This one is good. Albert Camus.
6/22/2025, 10:00:45 PM
>>24488138
>51
>The Collector seems to be the best known, so I'll shift my guess.
Right. The premise (guy kidnaps & imprisons girl, optimistically hopes she will come to like him) fits the extract pretty well I think.
>51
>The Collector seems to be the best known, so I'll shift my guess.
Right. The premise (guy kidnaps & imprisons girl, optimistically hopes she will come to like him) fits the extract pretty well I think.
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