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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

I'm curious as to which books these are, and which authors. just a few typical examples, not a list of 200 titles

Well, I didn't see the chit chat, I don't understand what you mean by"content", and I don't know what the E word is. So, unless you are are going to explain, I'll bow out of this discussion.

I also don't understand what this is about, or what these " lines" are that you don't want to cross. I'm with the "write more, agonize about your writing less" view.

I am going against the trend here, but: Read, a lot. Write, as much as you can. Worry less about the technical aspects. Karliin

I don't know what you mean by "adventure poem", but, if they exist, someone must have written them...

Hello Gypsilady. good luck with your writing. You've already finished a few projects, so the road is straight and well-paved in front of you. We will ignore the fact that the paving stones are the shells of live vicious turtles....