View original postPersonally, I'm getting back to the Iliad after taking a break from it; it's still filled with so many words that are only encountered once (in all of the history of Greek literature) that even after getting halfway in I still have to look crap up. I'll probably take another break but finish it before the end of the year.
Pretty impressive that you got that far already!
View original postI'm also reading La persecución religiosa en España durante la Segunda República (1931-1939) because I figure I should improve my Spanish. I also see more and more how perfidious the Second Republic was - it was violently antireligious, riddled with communists and NKVD agents and wrongly lionized in the West. Franco's victory was certainly the lesser of two evils.
You're just writing that to provoke me, aren't you?
One of the things that most disgusts me about Franco and his cronies is the way they put the lie to everything they claimed to stand for during the civil war, almost literally from day one. They claimed to stand up for religion but murdered priests (if not as many as the other side), claimed to stand up for the family but used mass rape as a tactic, claimed to stand up for Spain but were happy to offer Hitler Spanish villages as target practice and to encourage their Moroccan irregulars to rape and pillage all over the place.
If the book isn't too blatantly biased, it could still be an interesting read - I don't dispute that the Second Republic had its ugly sides, or the "two evils" characterization. Just your choice of the lesser one.
HEY! Do you still read books? If so, what are you reading in June and/or July?
- 16/06/2015 11:30:10 PM
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So I guess no one cares enough anymore to even make this an announcement
- 22/06/2015 04:46:15 AM
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Apologies. Done.
- 22/06/2015 06:26:54 PM
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History doesn't know the conditional conjugation
- 22/06/2015 11:50:21 PM
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Yeah, we're never going to agree on that. But thanks for the rec anyway, I might read the book. *NM*
- 23/06/2015 07:37:29 PM
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You should read some Pio Moa and get rid of that Leftist brainwashing. 
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- 26/07/2015 07:23:38 PM
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- 26/07/2015 07:23:38 PM
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Which one?
- 27/07/2015 06:51:16 PM
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