Rune @skalden@qoto.org

@tayfonay Let the kids try first, and watch their reaction closely before trying it yourself, I would say 😂 I guess the combination of nuts, chocolate, and salt caramel could work. But would expect it to be as healthy as eating a snickers

@tayfonay Oh my, I have not noticed that. I do not think any adult should try this, as the original without caramel was already too much. But then, I was more for Sjokade than Nugatti, even as a kid.

@angusm I must admit that I did not think of that. And the weather these days.

@angusm Lycanthropy sounds like fun, though.

"Ouch, now people from the entire world are calling me here."

I saw his version of the Oresteia on stage last week. Today, he got the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is a pretty talented playwright, this Jon Fosse, but I doubt he will enjoy the attention.

@kmic It is too mean-spirited to be funny, in my opinion. The retort was funny, though, but it seems to have been deleted.

@Schnuckster@beige.party I think "Will there be food?" is a legitimate response to invitations to such meetings

@Schnuckster@beige.party Should be food at the meeting?

If you challenge the conventions of academic form, you quickly run into the objection that you need to comply with academic form. The academic form has become tautological.

Literary critic Helge Krog says in a 1932 essay that if literature has value as literature, it is because it expresses "something newly seen, something newly experienced, something newly recognized."

Later in the same essay, he seems to retract everything when he, using Copernicus, Darwin, Marx, and Freud as examples, says that "in the entire history of the world, new thoughts or new ideas have never been first presented in literary form." In the retraction, Krog seems to see literature in an educational role, where "new thoughts and ideas are *converted* into living literature, -- into poetry, into images, into human narrative, into general understanding if you will" to make it accessible to a broader audience.

Perhaps he would parry the contradiction by claiming that by translating ideas into "literature, that is, direct portrayal, images, fragments of life itself," one sees and recognizes them in a new way. The essay is interesting because it raises questions about what and how literature may comprehend.

@digichelle @SimonRoyHughes Can write if I have to, but probably not read

@rmordecai It is a decent thesaurus as well. But apart from that. Yeah.

@rmordecai That is what they invented ChatGPT for, I've heard

@sz_duras Yes. They require that you register with a credit card. I tried to pretend that I was from Switzerland and it seemed to work, two factor authentication of the credit card and everything. Then they figured it out after all and told me my card had to be from a country they support

@sz_duras Yes. Seems a bit strange. I get a list of countries that is supported. UK is there. Even Lichtenstein, which is an EEA country as well, I think. But not Iceland or Norway

@sz_duras *The correct acronym is EEA rather than EEC