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#writersCoffeeClub 3 Mar 'On what are you unwilling to compromise?'

More about Benet on the website

https://www.slenderwolf.com/novels/characters/benet/

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Benet

A watercolour painting of a 40 year old hobo with long, dark hair, a beard, and a scruffy appearance. A wandering story teller, he sleeps in the woods at night. He is wearing a grubby wolfskin jacket over an old grey T shirt. In spite of his rough looks and shabby clothes Benet is one of Wolfland's nicest characters. The image is labelled Benet.

copyright © Scott Rochester 2025

#writersCoffeeClub 3 Mar 'On what are you unwilling to compromise?'

In my novels it has to be British English, and delivered the way that Miss Wilson taught us in the 1970s . I may not have liked her much, but she was right! Even about befrazzlement.

Befrazzlement?

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extract from book 1 of 6

SlenderWolf Conflicts and Alliances

Chapter Chapter 25
Jackanory Square

“Good to see you Benet!”

“Dan! How are you?”

“I’m fine, how are you?”

“Frazzled. As usual!”

That’s Benet’s standard response. On a good day he’s frazzled, and on a bad day he’s double plus frazzled. It’s only when story time is over that he lightens up. If anything doesn’t go quite right he always blames his old frazzled brain. If it all goes well, he’ll claim to have succeeded, in spite of his befrazzlement.

According to Benet, that’s a genuine English word! If he’s challenged he just says, “well it is now! The English language is fluid you know! Always changing!”

A watercolour painting of a 40 year old hobo with long, dark hair, a beard, and a scruffy appearance. A wandering story teller, he sleeps in the woods at night. He is wearing a grubby wolfskin jacket over an old grey T shirt. In spite of his rough looks and shabby clothes Benet is one of Wolfland's nicest characters. The image is labelled Benet.

copyright © Scott Rochester 2025

A question for any 19th century English lit scholars (please do boost!): when were Lord Byron's letters to his wife first published? I haven't been able to find a specific date for those yet. (I'm assuming it must have been after her death in 1860, but I could be wrong even about that vague assumption...)

#EnglishLit #english

@xgranade

I'll probably get blocked for this but "conversing with books" using a fronteer model is very much like having your very own personal English Lit Professor.

Is it an exact similiy?
Of course not.

But it's a fantastic experience at 2AM when you're slightly buzzed and want to hack your own path thru Ulysses. To put it another way, you can take your own path through the text rather than a pre-canned version of what some authority on the text laid down as the "correct" interpretation in their thesis.

And the AI is not going to try to fondle you in your vulnerable state.

#AI #books #EnglishLit

She was blue-eyed and flaxen and Aryan. A mortar bomb landed behind them on the verge, and for the second time, Jerry shoved her flat. The blast swept over them, and when it was past, feathers of earth drifted down like a propitiation. But she came up smiling. When the Pentagon thinks of civilization, thought Jerry, it thinks of you."

#books #bookstodon #tolkien #reading #EnglishLit 2/2

I'm currently reading both Tolkien's LOTR, and John Le Carre's The Honourable Schoolboy. While both authors treat women as an afterthought, they both include one woman (or girl in Le Carre's parlance) who is thirsty for battle, but Tolkien never spoke so bitterly about Éowyn:

"The bullets threw up screens of mud and whined off the road. They lay low, waiting for the firing to tire. The girl was looking excitedly across the river, smiling.
1/2
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Isaac Asimov bravely takes on the daunting challenge of explaining to an English Lit major why they're hilariously wrong about science 🤓✍️. Spoiler: crumpled handwritten letters are just the best way to convey cutting-edge scientific insights! 📜✨
https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html #IsaacAsimov #EnglishLit #ScienceHumor #WritingTips #CommunicationInsights #HackerNews #ngated

Hi all!
I'm Lauren and am returning to Mastodon after a long hiatus. I was previously on Artisan.Chat, which unfortunately closed, and Penfount.Social.
I'm a college lecturer of #Englishlit and #AcademicWriting. I enjoy #Tea, #Books, #Coloring, #Painting, #Sketching, and #Calligraphy as well as #FountainPens.
I am owned by an adorable Jack Russell named Tobie, and I look forward to chatting.

Here's a picture of my latest coloring page from Dark Fairytales by Kerby Rosanes.

A coloring page of two girls, Snow White and Rose Red, holding lanterns in against a greed wooded background. This is from Dark Fairytales by Kerby Rosanes.

Anyone with the Norton Anthology of English Literature can tell me if there are examples of singular they in it? :D

#EnglishLit

Checking in - personal and comic updates

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@hannu_ikonen

#book #BookLovers #BookTok #books #books2024 #libros #leer #本 #literature #englishLit

The ever insightful Daisy Christodoulo on the decline of #englishLit as a subject, with some reasons, and so e ideas.
Resonates with some recent posts about the quality of CVs.

@edutooters

https://open.substack.com/pub/daisychristodoulou/p/the-fall-of-Eng-lit