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john1954moi , to random
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It goes without saying that what Hamas did was morally abhorrent, but every time you see a tower block in Gaza being destroyed by an Israeli missile on the news you are watching children being killed, injured, or made orphans. 😡

SusanHR ,
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@Melinda @john1954moi Which superpower do you have in mind? The US that decimated Iraq after Saudis bombed the World Trade Centre? Russia who is currently invading the Ukraine? China who the rest of the world has treated like a leper for decades?

SusanHR ,
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@Melinda @john1954moi I don't know. It makes me sick. All the innocent people suffer in wars but we keep having them.

SusanHR ,
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@Melinda @john1954moi It is easy to say we should not be violent if you have never been subjected to a littany of injustices,but it is much more difficult to think sanely and rationally if you have been subjected over and over to injustices that are never properly readdressed.

SusanHR ,
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@Melinda @john1954moi But that is just words and we can talk all we want to, but people in the spell of violence can't just talk. It is a huge privilege to be able to just talk. And I am very grateful we have that privilege, but I don't think telling people in the throws of violence to just talk, works.

SusanHR ,
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@Melinda @john1954moi I read a book in the late 70s.I have never been able to find it again. I believe it was written in the 40s. called something like "Night Music" and I think it was written by Lily Palmer?
Anyhow the story took place in Serbia? A young reporter comes on the job. He can't understand why they keep fighting this endless war. He ends up staying with a woman and her child. He becomes emotionally entangled and eventually realizes that they are also involved in fighting. 1/2

SusanHR , (edited )
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@Melinda @john1954moi When they are killed in the fighting he picks up a gun and joins the fight.

Reading that book gave me much better insight. It was brilliantly written. I wish I could find it again. 2/2 @bookstodon

wendypalmer , to bookstodon
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I live rurally and my library has been part of a consortium of 24 libraries across this part of the state where they all share a catalogue and patrons can borrow from all of them. Recently, courier costs have become too much and they’ve cut into blocks of 5 or so libraries for delivery (I honestly just thought they’d hired someone whose job it was to continuously circuit through the 24 libraries, collecting and returning books).

The other cost-cutting measure is that they no longer return books to the originating library. So I’m seeing “New to this library” bookmarks on quite a few books now.

One of the librarians casually told me that patrons still have membership in the full 24-library network. So that if I were to, say, visit one of the big towns now outside our small delivery block, I could, maybe, borrow books directly from there — and I could, you know, conveniently return it via my own library.

And then my library gets to keep it.

They’re very quietly deploying their readers to raid the bigger libraries 😂

@bookstodon

SusanHR ,
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@wendypalmer @bookstodon This is hilarious!!

dickrubin716 , to bookstodon
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When writing your book, do you give thought to the final word count, or is it irrelevant to you? @bookstodon

SusanHR ,
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@golgaloth @dickrubin716 @bookstodon Or stop naming characters Marya Dmitriyevna Akhrosimova!

azforeman , to histodons
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My reading of Demetrius' and Chiron's execution scene from Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" in early 17th century pronunciation. I used a rather more innovative accent for Publius than for Titus.

People: "Stuff is so violent these days, we didn't use to have such gratuitous violence in entertainment"

be like "Orly?"

https://youtu.be/uryDbnNGviI

@linguistics @poetry @histodons @bookstodon
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SusanHR ,
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@richard @azforeman @linguistics @poetry @histodons @bookstodon @litstudies I dunno... I think that shakespeare has nowhere near as much sex and violence as The Bible.

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