Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2024 at 11:24am:

Very niche. Never heard of it  until now.

Greatest 19th century novel - War and Peace.
20th century - Remembrances of thing past.

The greatest of them all is "Epic of Gilgamesh", the rest is plagiarism.

Strangely it  was banned in US.

Jovial Monk wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2024 at 2:47pm:



The gods--those of the Anunnaki--were weeping with her,
the gods humbly sat weeping, sobbing with grief(?),
their lips burning, parched with thirst.
Six days and seven nights
came the wind and flood, the storm flattening the land.
When the seventh day arrived, the storm was pounding,
the flood was a war--struggling with itself like a woman
writhing (in labor).


Gilgamesh, tablet XI

Lord Herbert wrote on Dec 8^th, 2016 at 5:03am:


yes - the most memorable one I read was -



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities

Dickens opens the novel with a sentence that has become famous:

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short,
the period was so far like the present period,
that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received,
for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Would not be surprised at that!

Jovial Monk wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2024 at 3:29pm:


Actually the flood was long before Gilgamesh who only retold story of a man called  Utnapishtim who claimed to know secret of immorality eating right kind of diet.

Jovial Monk wrote on Aug 6^th, 2024 at 3:50pm:



Listen here you heathen,

stop using Ozpolitic to spread your blasphemy and hate messages against Abrahamic religions.

forgiven

namaste

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I read the Epic of Gilgamesh, OK?

The story of Noah and the Ark is arrant nonsense—the whole world was flooded and ALL the animals came on the Ark? Bullshit—none of the New World animals like kangaroos or koala bears etc were on it, let alone spiders, ticks, mites and insects, earthworms yadda yadda. As water vapor arose from the oceans the moisture got returned to the oceans by rivers etc etc. Crap.

A story for credulous children, like TVI™ and Frank.