The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything 15 years ago
In "Genius" Harold Bloom lists 100 authors. I trust his judgement more than mine so I'm slowly working my way through his choices.
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It's leisure I think.
... and the two giants of western literature Shakespeare and Dante. We can't gloss over Joyce and Proust. And "Don Quixote", surely we can't miss that. Maybe Milton. Montaigne? And the Greeks, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides at least. Molière and Goethe...
Ask HN: how can I practice negotiation? 15 years ago
"Go to a market in Italy and try to buy anything without haggling. They can negotiate the price of a $10 necklace."
Maybe this happens to tourists but it is definetely not the rule for locals.