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August 2024 Reading

August 30, 2024

L’inferno- Dante  (1321) Continuing through the inferno, this month Cantos 23-32.  Canto 23 Eighth circle- fifth ditch: Fraudulent/bribe takers Virgil and Dante escape the demon bunch that was

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Inferno: Cantos 22-28

August 17, 2024

Canto XXII Still in the eighth circle, fifth ditch, which contains the bribe-takers, the pair set off accompanied by the ten demons. Dante says he has

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Inferno: Cantos 15-21

August 9, 2024

Canto XV As virgil and Dante are walking along the banks of the river, there is a mist that shades them from the fire flakes falling over the

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Jane Eyre- Parody Poem

August 8, 2024

I found this on The Enthusiast’s Guide to Jane Eyre and laughed, so I thought I’d share. https://sites.google.com/view/eyreguide/adaptations/parodies How to Become Ridiculously Well-Read in One Evening

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dave

“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“

This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.

The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.