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An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy …
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with …
rereading this, mostly since there wasn't much else on hand
this is pretty easy to read fast, and it's good, too, but i miss the density of other books — feels like it reads fast because there's less stuff packed into each sentence than there could be
Jacques the Fatalist and his Master (French: Jacques le fataliste et son maître) is a novel by Denis Diderot, written …
"The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. …
"The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. …
i think i'm too overwhelmed to really write anything about this book rn, it's too much. spätestens ab der hälfte war ich auch nicht mehr wirklich ausreichend aufnahmefähig (there is so, so much going on in this text, and my memory not nearly good enough to keep all strands in my head at once)
Content warning somewhat deep into the book by now
it's so weird having someone speak as Ceaser without the quasi-latin sentence structure
this is probably the only sci-fi work i have ever read which has a solid page of text entirely in latin (and then has the gall to make that horribly weird latin, since most of it was presumably added three-words-a-time over centuries, for complicated in-universe regions)
where's my mycroft :/
"The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more …
"The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some …
This book has been recommended by an uncommonly disperate set of people; curious to see what that is about
as already mentioned, this book is just so much
that whole bit about the legally untranslatable latin dialogue, except one of the people present also speaks unreasonably obscure latin nobody else is used to, so the narrator reasons it's fine to at least give translations in 'normal' (in-world modern) latin, and then his anonymous editor suddenly inserts a paragraph saying "oh yeah i translated the latin but i suck at it & did so in secret from the others, so not sure how accurate it is" is still so absurdly over-the-top funny to me (all three versions are in the text, so one can compare)
even better since the editor clearly attempted to translate the obscure version of everything, not the narrator's "reasonable" gloss, so there's lots of overly-literal translations of idioms and such
also the latin speakers exchange a couple sentences beetween them in english without putting in much effort, so the grammar leaks and everyone else is …
that whole bit about the legally untranslatable latin dialogue, except one of the people present also speaks unreasonably obscure latin nobody else is used to, so the narrator reasons it's fine to at least give translations in 'normal' (in-world modern) latin, and then his anonymous editor suddenly inserts a paragraph saying "oh yeah i translated the latin but i suck at it & did so in secret from the others, so not sure how accurate it is" is still so absurdly over-the-top funny to me (all three versions are in the text, so one can compare)
even better since the editor clearly attempted to translate the obscure version of everything, not the narrator's "reasonable" gloss, so there's lots of overly-literal translations of idioms and such
also the latin speakers exchange a couple sentences beetween them in english without putting in much effort, so the grammar leaks and everyone else is left confused
it is just so much
