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Columbia U And ToplessRobot.com on Dante's Inferno
Today’s NTY tackles the latest release from EA Games, a video game based on Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno.” Among those quoted are Teodolinda Barolini, the Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian at Columbia University and a former president of the Dante Society of America, and Rob Bricken, editor of the geek-culture blog ToplessRobot.com:
“It’s just a gross misrepresentation of the original work….They’re not interested in getting kids into literature — they’re not looking to do anything except sell some books to dumb kids.”
“The story…[is] kind of a mishmash of current popular ideas, projected back into the Middle Ages…. I’m not in the least bit turned off. I’m very intrigued and I want to see it.”
Which quote comes from which source? The answer may surprise you. Read the full article.
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I am disgusted to see Dos [Passos] said that writers should not write now. If a writer has any guts he should write all the time, and the lousier the world the harder a writer should work. For if he can do nothing positive, to make the world more liveable or less cruel or stupid, he can at least record truly, and that is something no one else will do, and it a job that must be done. It is the only revenge that all the bastardized people will ever get: that somebody writes down clearly what happened to them.
»Martha Gellhorn, 1941 (via The Daily Dish)
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“Nightmare,” Nancy Franklin on NBC’s Late Night Debacle
“O’Brien’s career won’t suffer. No doubt he’ll soon be Fantastic Mr. Fox, his blend of sophisticated sophomoricism, grossness, and inventiveness fitting right in with that network.”
via (New Yorker)
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