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Started by Queequeg, March 25, 2009, 02:10:05 PM

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Favorite national epic, in prose or poetic form.

The Epic of Gilgamesh (Sumer)
2 (4.5%)
The Illiad (Ancient Greece)
9 (20.5%)
The Aeneid (Rome)
3 (6.8%)
Ramayana (India)
0 (0%)
Beowulf (Anglo-Saxons)
3 (6.8%)
Shahnameh (Persian)
0 (0%)
The Song of My Lord (Spain)
1 (2.3%)
The Divine Comedy (Italy)
1 (2.3%)
Táin Bó Cúailnge (Ireland)
3 (6.8%)
The Eddas (Norse)
5 (11.4%)
The Nibelungenlied (Germany)
2 (4.5%)
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (China)
4 (9.1%)
Paradise Lost (England)
2 (4.5%)
Moby-Dick (USA)
3 (6.8%)
War and Peace (Russia)
0 (0%)
Kaevala (Finns, other Uralic freaks)
2 (4.5%)
Other
4 (9.1%)

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garbon

#75
March 25, 2009, 04:54:34 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 25, 2009, 04:48:02 PM
You've been sadly misinformed then. :mellow:

Tim don't even play. :thumbsdown:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

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HVC

#76
March 25, 2009, 04:56:42 PM
Quote from: Martinus on March 25, 2009, 04:48:59 PM
Oh this qugueuguehegh guy is Psellus? That explains a lot. :P
Yeah, Spellus is on a Moby Dick Love-a-thon
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Malthus

#77
March 25, 2009, 04:59:31 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 25, 2009, 04:48:02 PM
Quote from: Malthus on March 25, 2009, 03:13:29 PM

I read to her all the time, because she likes being read to. I wasn't aware that horrible mutilation was mandatory.

You've been sadly misinformed then. :mellow:

When you get married, you can explain that "necessity" to the cops.  :D
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MadImmortalMan

#78
March 25, 2009, 05:10:52 PM
Paradise Lost is my favorite book of any genre, but RoTK is damn close.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

The Larch

#79
March 25, 2009, 05:13:41 PM
QuoteThe Song of My Lord (Spain)

WTF is that one supposed to be?

CountDeMoney

#80
March 25, 2009, 05:17:40 PM
Quote from: grumbler on March 25, 2009, 02:23:58 PM
The US epic is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

This isn't even a subject of debate.

Yeah, gotta go with that one.

CountDeMoney

#81
March 25, 2009, 05:18:49 PM
And Joyce's Ulysses trumps Táin Bó Cúailnge for Ireland.
At least, I think so.

jimmy olsen

#82
March 25, 2009, 05:19:48 PM
Quote from: The Larch on March 25, 2009, 05:13:41 PM
QuoteThe Song of My Lord (Spain)

WTF is that one supposed to be?
A Crusader epic, like the Italian "Jerusalem Delivered"?
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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jimmy olsen

#83
March 25, 2009, 05:23:33 PM
Quote from: Malthus on March 25, 2009, 04:59:31 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 25, 2009, 04:48:02 PM
Quote from: Malthus on March 25, 2009, 03:13:29 PM

I read to her all the time, because she likes being read to. I wasn't aware that horrible mutilation was mandatory.

You've been sadly misinformed then. :mellow:

When you get married, you can explain that "necessity" to the cops.  :D

Ass, you know what I meant. :lol:
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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grumbler

#84
March 25, 2009, 05:25:26 PM
Quote from: The Larch on March 25, 2009, 05:13:41 PM
QuoteThe Song of My Lord (Spain)

WTF is that one supposed to be?
The story of El Cid.  I think it is the oldest Spanish epic.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

The Larch

#85
March 25, 2009, 05:30:53 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 25, 2009, 05:19:48 PM
Quote from: The Larch on March 25, 2009, 05:13:41 PM
QuoteThe Song of My Lord (Spain)

WTF is that one supposed to be?
A Crusader epic, like the Italian "Jerusalem Delivered"?

I mean which novel, that name doesn't ring any bell at all, and it's supposed to be my national epic, which makes the situation a bit stupid.

The Larch

#86
March 25, 2009, 05:31:51 PM Last Edit: March 25, 2009, 05:35:08 PM by The Larch
Quote from: grumbler on March 25, 2009, 05:25:26 PM
Quote from: The Larch on March 25, 2009, 05:13:41 PM
QuoteThe Song of My Lord (Spain)

WTF is that one supposed to be?
The story of El Cid.  I think it is the oldest Spanish epic.

That's "El Cantar del Mio Cid", and Spellus himself says he discarded it when picking them.

Edit: Wait, I misread. So Spellus translated Mio Cid as My Lord? Dumbass...

Admiral Yi

#87
March 25, 2009, 05:56:23 PM
Hey Squeelus, how about the Moses story?

fhdz

#88
March 25, 2009, 06:18:06 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 25, 2009, 05:18:49 PM
And Joyce's Ulysses trumps Táin Bó Cúailnge for Ireland.
At least, I think so.

Agreed.
and the horse you rode in on

I Killed Kenny

#89
March 25, 2009, 06:38:35 PM
The Lusiadas....
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