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Why is the Iliad's catalogue of ships a pleb filter? IIRC it was just a fairly boring instance of a primarily illiterate culture's historical record keeping, no
by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
Why is the Iliad's catalogue of ships a pleb filter? IIRC it was just a fairly boring instance of a primarily illiterate culture's historical record keeping, not unlike the "X begat Y" in the Hebrew Bible. Is TFA claiming it is excellent literature masquerading as repetitious trivia? If so, a better example imo would have been the chapter from Moby Dick which is solely devoted to the whiteness of the whale.
- red-iron-pine 3y agopresumably because its long, and droll. kills any action, and drives out those who are easily bored. but really it's more like having the cast & credits shown, like the intro to game of thrones