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Who is G.B. Gabbler? Better yet, who's the nameless Narrator? Best yet, why should you care? This might answer those very questions...

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GABBLER RECOMMENDS: We Need To Talk About How Weird HOOK Is by Patrick (H) Willems

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GABBLER RECOMMENDS: An Uncomplicated Man Emily Wilson in the London Review of Books

“The race-neutral casting of Nolan’s Odyssey was inevitably deplored in some quarters. But there is nothing progressive about it. Most of the non-white actors – Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Himesh Patel, Corey Antonio Hawkins, Travis Scott – play versions of the Black best friend, whose only role in the drama is to provide aid to the white protagonist. Scott, as the Ithacan bard, Phemius, yells a few…

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Richard of Aphrodite’s affair & Hephaestus’s snare – The Odyssey, Book 8, lines 266-364:

Yet another image for our most relevant portion of The Odyssey   “Demodokos struck the lyre and began singing well the story about the love of Ares and sweei-garlanded Aphrodite, how they first lay together in the house of Hephaistos secretly; he gave her much and fouled the marriage and bed of the lord Hephaistos; to him there came as messenger Helios, the sun, who had seen them lying in love…

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The “Merge” With AI Has Already Begun by Émile Torres

At least as serious is the question of what “merging” with AI would require of the human organism. Uploaded minds would have no physical body. They would exist as mere software floating in a digital ether—creatures in the form of pure information. They would never age, because software is immortal, and they could share memories, personality traits, and experiences with one another at the…

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Robert Fagles’s translation of Aphrodite’s affair & Hephaestus’s snare – The Odyssey, Book 8, lines 290-367:

At the king’s word the herald [Demodocus] sprang to his feet and ran to fetch the vibrant lyre from the house. And stewards rose, nine in all, picked from the realm to set the stage for contests: masters-at-arms who leveled the dancing-floor to make a fine broad ring. The herald returned and placed the ringing lyre now in Demodocus’ hands, and the bard moved toward the center, flanked by boys in…

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We’ll Help You Find Your Next Great Book. (Spoiler: It’s the ‘Odyssey.’) | The New York Times

‘As the critic and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn puts it in the introduction to his recent translation, “The ‘Odyssey’ bequeathed to the West entire genres,” from science fiction to romantic comedy. In that spirit, we offer this guide, confident that whatever kind of story you’re looking for, you’ll find it in Homer.’ [Via]

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COGS RATE GODS: Zagreus

Gabbler: COGS rate GODs is back, baby. What was supposed to be a series never took off. But here we are for a relaunch. But much lower pressure! BLA: Hell yeah. What’s funny is our series came out the same month and year as John Green’s Anthropocene Reviewed. Ratings were a big thing back then amongst humans, I guess? Still are. G: But we’re not reviewing human things. We’re reviewing the…

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GABBLER RECOMMENDS: "Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead" | Taylor Lorenz

Donna Haraway, please way in.

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GABBLER RECOMMENDS: The Frankenstein Discourse Is Bad. Let’s Talk About It

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What a deal (if you don't want our combined edition):

Both volumes 1 and 2 are currently free. While you might know volume 1 is permafree (fine, compare us to a drug dealer), we need you to now volume 2 is free for a limited time as a Kindle ebook here.

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The first hit is free. But so is the second.

Both volumes 1 and 2 are currently free. While you might know volume 1 is permafree (fine, compare us to a drug dealer), we need you to now volume 2 is free for a limited time as a Kindle ebook here.

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The Blacksmith's Circus is free until Dec 4.

Both volumes 1 and 2 are currently free. While you might know volume 1 is permafree (fine, compare us to a drug dealer), we need you to now volume 2 is free for a limited time as a Kindle ebook here.

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How Normal Is A Celebrity Allowed To Be? by Kelsey McKinney

But this is a fundamental difference between art and content. The art exists without you, and it has to stand up for itself. You cannot follow it around explaining why you did the things you did, or apologizing for it, or even speaking for it, because it is separate from you and it is finished. A book exists forever on its own, and even by the time it is published you will have changed as a…

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GABBLER RECOMMENDS: The End of The Penny (and of Congress??)

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GABBLER RECOMMENDS: Taylor Lorenz | Why People Are Roleplaying Robot Racism

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Quotes from American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton by Victoria Houseman

Edith set out to create an entirely new version only of Thomas Bulfinch’s first mythology book, The Age of Fable, which had contained Greek, Roman, and Norse myths. Bulfinch, who had received his education in classics at the Boston Latin School and at Harvard, had died in 1867, the year Edith was born. He had been a Boston bank clerk when he had published The Age of Fable, which was subsequently…

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Gabbler Recommends: Everyone's Cheating At Chess (Allegedly) by Sarah Z