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Abram
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Things I am remembering/relearning/learning
- Zeus is really that guy
- More controversially, Agamemnon: Also Really That Guy
- Every story of sufficient breadth requires a Nestor
- It’s actually very possible to write spare, brutal violence - longer descriptions of violence feel a lot more like sadistic decadence now
- Easiest path to immortality is to have a really famous guy kill you
— Sep 15, 2026 01:42PM
- Zeus is really that guy
- More controversially, Agamemnon: Also Really That Guy
- Every story of sufficient breadth requires a Nestor
- It’s actually very possible to write spare, brutal violence - longer descriptions of violence feel a lot more like sadistic decadence now
- Easiest path to immortality is to have a really famous guy kill you
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The modern image of Zeus as a sort of bumbling sex-fiend who was birthed at the top does not survive contact.
— Aug 24, 2026 10:30AM
Abram
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Some of this translation’s language, based on what I feel compelled to stress is extremely limited understanding, reminds me of anime translation, which is, uh, not a plus.
— Aug 20, 2026 07:24PM
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With all the current commotion about LLM-generated writing, I think it’s good to remember that its style elements very much had a place in the literature before AI appeared.
— Aug 19, 2026 09:38AM