Interesting Links for 14-01-2018

[andrewducker]

A Conservative voter explains themselves

(tags: Conservatives economics )

Why D&D should give out experience for gold pieces

(tags: roleplaying design )

Winston Churchill gives great advice on writing reports

(tags: writing advice )

What it’s like being a creative professional and a mother.

(tags: funny fantasy motherhood advice viaFanf )

The First Woman to Translate the ‘Odyssey’ Into English

(tags: translation writing )

Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons

(tags: italy mafia history economics )

On interviewing at Amazon in 1995 so you can steal their technology

(tags: amazon interview history )

Citizens Assemblies as a way of getting feedback on what the public want from Brexit

(tags: UK Europe democracy opinion )

Why you're not getting a map (for a fantasy book series)

(tags: maps writing fantasy )

Hawaii sends out missile alert by mistake (and somehow takes twenty minutes to rescind it)

(tags: usa nuclearweapons Hawaii fail )

Brexit talks latest: EU to target UK tax haven territories as trade negotiations begin

(tags: tax UK Europe )

Lighthouses of Europe

(tags: maps light )

Dan Harmon Confesses to Sexually Harassing Community Writer Megan Ganz

(tags: abuse tv DanHarmon )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

I read a really good book on the Homeric epics last year. Lots of good stuff on the origin and what happened to the stories after they were created.

Buggered if I can remember the name of it off the top of my head.

I'm looking forward to the translation mentioned above.

[andrewducker]

I've ordered a copy. You can read it after me if you like.

[danieldwilliam]

That would be splendid thank you.

[anef]

I got the book for Christmas and I'm very much looking forward to reading it. In the Iliad and other literature it is very clear that Odysseus is crafty and clever, and in many ways not at all an ideal hero figure except that of course he is courageous and a mighty warrior. I'm looking forward to the translation reflecting that ambiguity.

I've always been fond of the Robert Graves retelling, Homer's Daughter, which says well, what if the Odyssey were written by a woman?

A Conservative voter explains themselves

[j_v_lynch]

I don't think that conservative explained themselves very well, especially if the goal was to explain how they are not selfish.

Re: A Conservative voter explains themselves

[anef]

They didn't particularly seem selfish, so much as blithely ignoring the fact that Tory policies do not in fact "help the poor and achieve a more harmonious, industrious and cohesive society". They seem to believe that Toryism will magically achieve these aims, completely ignoring the fact that it has so far signally failed to do so. We need some evidence based political thinking.