Recent content by Karlin

I sometimes contact authors, museum curators, podcasters, university professors and the like, with questions relating to my writing. I get helpful responses more often than you might think. Recently I asked about the wording on a Renaissance tomb, and got a very detailed response. Moral of the...

Hi, I find the mix of classic cultures interesting. You seem to have thrown in a Daoist concept as well (The "force" you meantioned). What I don't entirely follow is why anyone in that culture would be so concerned about a woman marrying young. It almost feels like you've thrown a modern concept...

The one super important thing is: do not agonize for hours over one word. Your time is too valuable for that.

Do their astrological charts match? Ths is a serious issue in Sri Lanka, for example/ Are they distantly related? common ancestor seven generations ago? that's a no no in Ethiopia.

Making progress. Though today was a research day. I'm becoming an amateur art historian

I'm Playing at "Being a Writer". It's a role playing game, and doesn't leave much time for video games...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz read this book

She's only referred to as Manoah's wife, which is curious since she is a more important character than he is. The source is the Babylonian Talmud, which is more than a 1,000 years after the reported events. Bava Batra 91A Rav Ḥanan bar Rava continues: The mother of David was named Natzvat bat...

My personal example is Chinese culture. I read all four classic novels. Unfortunately in English translation. . They're about 2,000 pages long EACH. I read one of them 3 times, along with thousands of footnotes that explained cultural references. In parallel, I listened to podcasts about...

Here's a curious one. In teh Bible, who is Samson's mother?

1. I don't know what "traditional" means in this context. Bible? Iliad? Is Tolkien the measure of all things? 2. Write as many characters as you need for the story. I don't see the point in discussing it much.

My tastes run moee to The Journey to the West and Dream of the Red Chamber than to Shakespeare and Austin, but welcome aboard. Maybe there's another soul here who doesn't play video games.

Just put in your Greek Chorus, and problem is solved! I've see "Gentle Reader, our hero is not aware of Mr. X's plans, but we know he is going to scrape the cream out of all the Oreo Cookies."

I just read "The Bonesetters Daughter", Amy Tan. so-so.

I'm a writer, so I get writer gifts. Qin Qin (a Chinese friend) gave me a fountain pen, which I used for a while, then gave up on. When I retired my friends at work bought me a nice Waterman pen, and a bound book to write stuff in. I rarely use either of these items