Eagerly watched
Hygelac's kinsman his cursed foe,
how he would fare in fell attack.
Not that the monster was minded to pause!
Straightway he seized a sleeping warrior
for the first, and tore him fiercely asunder,
the bone-frame bit, drank blood in streams,
swallowed him piecemeal: swiftly thus
the lifeless corse was clear devoured,
e'en feet and hands. posted by caddis at 7:51 AM on September 2, 2004
I love hearing my speech software mangle a Southern accent. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. posted by teg at 7:54 AM on September 2, 2004
A lot of Gutenberg has the musty smell of library books nobody's touched in half a century, but I find it's usually interesting to check out the books written by "anonymous" or "unknown" - they have three different translations of the Thousand and One Nights (the third being the overly florid Sir Richard Burton version); various Bible versions; Babylonian and Assyrian literature (a lot of their translations have been superseded by more recent scholarship, but many are still readable); check out Beowulf, Confucius, the Mabinogion, the Nibelungenlied or the Dhammapada. posted by zadcat at 8:33 AM on September 2, 2004
the musty smell of library books nobody's touched in half a century
You say that as though it were necessarily a negative. There's bound to be lots of crap, but also there are neglected gems; popularity and fashion are no guarantee of quality. posted by Quinbus Flestrin at 2:30 PM on September 2, 2004
You say that as though it were necessarily a negative.
No, just a fact. A lot of the books are out of fashion but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Incidentally, I love Three Men in a Boat - in that vein I notice there's a mess of stories by Saki and a growing list of P.G. Wodehouse titles that are falling into the public domain as well. posted by zadcat at 2:47 PM on September 2, 2004
And brownpau, you're probably right. I didn't stop to think that actual people were typing these in. I just figured they were done by.. I don't know.. magic robots. The FAQ set me straight though. posted by Hypharse at 5:43 PM on September 2, 2004
Joyce didn't die till 1941. His stuff's still in copyright (though it was public domain for a few years in the '90's), and his heirs are jerks. posted by Zed_Lopez at 6:18 PM on September 2, 2004
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