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I don't know what this is supposed to prove. Poe was a failure whose writing was never popular during his lifetime. The fact that he is better known since his death is entirely due to the activist efforts by Ivory Tower academics and English teachers to make the rambling writings of an ancient hack into mandatory reading for students.
I don't know what this is supposed to prove. Poe was a failure whose writing was never popular during his lifetime. The fact that he is better known since his death is entirely due to the activist efforts by Ivory Tower academics and English teachers to make the rambling writings of an ancient hack into mandatory reading for students.
If you’re interested in reading Poe’s non-poetry fiction, I put together all of his short stories and novellas into a free/libre compilation for Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fict... Having said that, I personally prefer the writing of Leonid Andreyev (described as Russia’s answer to Poe). Coincidentally, I’ve put together a short fiction compilation for him too: https://sta…
As a bonus I get nice chart and precise measurement of battery capacity:)
Likewise I have precision data logging laboratory thermometer, with current calibration (to 0.01C) to measure temperature of bread dough. Not strictly in category of overkill -- I am running experiments to come up with formula to calculate exact perfect bread dough recipes, taking temperature into account.
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As a Russian, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn were an important part of my childhood, just as "To kill a mockingbird".
Thank you. The 2 parent comments seem to misunderstand a couple things. Just because something is popular doesn’t mean it’s profound, and vice versa. Also, just because something goes over many students’ heads doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth trying.
It's the equivalent of "classical music sucks, it all all sounds the same to me and is really boring" or "jazz sucks, it's all just random noise" or "hip-hop sucks, it's all just angry yelling". No, you're bad at listening to music, broadly, and are so bad that you don't even realize how bad you are. This is different from just happening not to care for a given piece or artist, but understanding why the work may be considered good, or at least important.
I use 6.5 digit calibrated multimeter, precision programmable power supply and programmable load (all from Keysight) to discharge/charge my car's battery:) In total the equipment to do this is almost the cost of the car. As a bonus I get nice chart and precise measurement of battery capacity:) Likewise I have precision data logging laboratory thermometer, with current calibration (to 0.01C) to measure temperature of…
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Thank you. The 2 parent comments seem to misunderstand a couple things. Just because something is popular doesn’t mean it’s profound, and vice versa. Also, just because something goes over many students’ heads doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth trying.
I'd go farther—probably too mean for HN, but this kind of attitude gets a pass on here in part because people are too restrained in slapping down painfully-bad opinions that aren't about technology—and point to the above two comments as illustrating the difference between "literate" as in "can read words" and "literate" as in "at least knows what actually reading looks like, even if not fully capable of it oneself".…
I'd wager the average american if asked throughout there life would reconcile the fact that EAP was not worth learning about.
Once, upon a midnight dreary, While I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious seashell, Gathered from some forgotten shore ...
Nabokov himself even went so far as to say:
> It is not improbable that had there been no revolution in Russia, I would have devoted myself entirely to lepidopterology and never written any novels at all.