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The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco

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The Trojan Epic: Posthomerica

by Quintus Smyrnaeus

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The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

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“...it is the business of myth to condense and contain the most fundamental sources of cultural tension -- those areas in which the self and the world are in greatest friction -- and to validate current ideologies by dramatizing them and retrojecting their contours into the past.”
― R.M. Liuzza, Beowulf

tags: beowulf, between-myth-and-history, literature, mythography, mythology

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“Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

tags: tess-of-the-d-urbervilles

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“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley: In Search of America

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“This went on at any odd hour, if necessary, with a floor rug over his shoulders, with the fine quiet of the scholar which is nearest of all things to heavenly peace”
― F Scott Fitzgerald, TENDER IS THE NIGHT With an introduction by Charles Scriner III and illustrations by Fred Meyer.

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“What though the field be lost?
All is not lost: th' unconquerable will
And study of revenge, immortal hate
And courage never to submit or yield”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: epic, lucifer, paradise-lost, poetry, satan, willpower

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