If a good man were ever housed in Hell
By needful error of the qualities,
Perhaps to prove the rule or shame the devil,
Or speak the truth only a stranger sees,
Would he, surrendering quick to obvious hate,
Fill half eternity with cries and tears,
Or watch beside Hell's little wicket gate
In patience for the first ten thousand years,
Feeling the curse climb slowly to his throat
That, uttered, dooms him to rescindless ill,
Forcing his praying tongue to run by rote,
Eternity entire before him still?
Would he at last, grown faithful in his station,
Kindle a little hope in hopeless Hell,
And sow among the damned doubts of damnation,
Since here someone could live, and live well?
One doubt of evil would bring down such a grace,
Open such a gate, and Eden could enter in,
Hell be a place like any other place,
And love and hate and life and death begin.
Edwin Muir-The Horses
Although what we are living atm is not as bleak as portrayed in the poem, I am constantly finding myself thinking of this poem. The simple hope at the end I find uplifting.
Barely a twelvemonth after The seven days’ war that put the world to sleep, Late in the evening the strange horses came. By then we had made our covenant with silence, But in the first few days it was so still We listened to our breathing and were afraid. On the second day The radios failed; we turned the knobs; no answer. On the third day a warship passed us, heading north, Dead bodies piled on the deck. On the sixth day A plane plunged over us into the sea. Thereafter Nothing. The radios dumb; And still they stand in corners of our kitchens, And stand, perhaps, turned on, in a million rooms All over the world. But now if they should speak, If on a sudden they should speak again, If on the stroke of noon a voice should speak, We would not listen, we would not let it bring That old bad world that swallowed its children quick At one great gulp. We would not have it again. Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness. The tractors lie about our fields; at evening They look like dank sea-monsters couched and waiting. We leave them where they are and let them rust: ‘They’ll molder away and be like other loam.’ We make our oxen drag our rusty ploughs, Long laid aside. We have gone back Far past our fathers’ land. And then, that evening Late in the summer the strange horses came. We heard a distant tapping on the road, A deepening drumming; it stopped, went on again And at the corner changed to hollow thunder. We saw the heads Like a wild wave charging and were afraid. We had sold our horses in our fathers’ time To buy new tractors. Now they were strange to us As fabulous steeds set on an ancient shield. Or illustrations in a book of knights. We did not dare go near them. Yet they waited, Stubborn and shy, as if they had been sent By an old command to find our whereabouts And that long-lost archaic companionship. In the first moment we had never a thought That they were creatures to be owned and used. Among them were some half-a-dozen colts Dropped in some wilderness of the broken world, Yet new as if they had come from their own Eden. Since then they have pulled our ploughs and borne our loads But that free servitude still can pierce our hearts. Our li
... keep reading on reddit ➡"It seems so dreadful to stay a bachelor, to become an old man struggling to keep one's dignity while begging for an invitation whenever one wants to spend an evening in company, to lie ill gazing for weeks into an empty room from the corner where one's bed is, always having to say good night at the front door, never to run up a stairway beside one's wife, to have only side doors in one's room leading into other people's living rooms, having to carry one's supper home in one's hand, having to admire other people's children and not even being allowed to go on saying: 'I have none myself,' modeling oneself in appearance and behavior on one or two bachelors remembered from one's youth.
That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand."
I love good adventure/exploration/discovery books. Open to all categories.
Recently read titles that have fit what I’m looking for:
Project Hail Mary
A Walk In the Woods
into the Wild
Into Thin Air
The Alchemist
Thanks so much!
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Please find the list below:
12490.Hip Hop Reader, The (A Longman Topics Reader) 1st edition Tim Strode, Tim Wood
12491.Wu Zhao: China's Only Female Emperor 1st edition N Harry Rothschild
12492.College Culture, Student Success (A Longman Topics Reader) 1st edition Debra J. Anderson
12493.Chican@s in the Conversations (A Longman Topics Reader) 1st edition Elizabeth R. Kessler, Anne Perrin
12494.Education Matters (A Longman Topics Reader) 1st edition Morgan Gresham, Crystal McCage
12495.Legends, Lore, and Lies: A Skeptic's Stance (A Longman Topics Reader) 1st edition Joseph Calabrese
12496.Case Studies in Special Education Law: No Child Left Behind Act and Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act 1st edition Mary Konya Weishaar
12497.Body and Culture (A Longman Topics Reader) 1st edition Greg Lyons
12498.Ethics in the 21st Century (A Longman Topics Reader) 1st edition Mary Alice Trent
12499.Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction, The 1st edition Deane Mansfield-Kelley, Lois Marchino
12500.Language and Prejudice (A Longman Topics Reader) 1st edition Tamara M. Valentine
12501.Guide to Interpersonal Communication (Guide to Business Communication Series) 1st edition Joann Baney
12502.Considering Cultural Difference (A Longman Topics Reader) 1st edition Pauline Uchmanowicz
12503.Transcreation of the Bhagavad Gita 1st edition Ashok Kumar Malhotra
12504.Varieties of Unbelief: From Epicurus to Sartre 1st edition J C. A. Gaskin
12505.Harry S. Truman and the Modern American Presidency (Library of American Biography Series) 1st edition Robert H. Ferrell
12506.John Marshall: Defender of the Constitution 1st edition
12507.Way of Lao Tzu, The 1st edition Wingtsit Chan
12508.Nicomachean Ethics: Aristotle 1st edition Martin Ostwald
12509.Organization 21C: Someday All Organizations Will Lead This Way 1st edition Subir Chowdhury
12510.My iPad 11th edition Gary Rosenzweig
12511.My iPad for Seniors 7th edition Michael Miller
12512.My iPad for Seniors
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Please help me find something funny to read that is not on every "top 100 funny books to read" list! I'm desperate. I somehow accidentally read 25 dour, tragic, serious books in a row this year and I need something a little lighter that won't also feel like a waste of time.
Stuff that usually gets recommended that I have already read and loved:
Catch-22 [This is the gold standard of American comedy for me]
Everything by P.G. Wodehouse [and this is my gold standard of English comedy]
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky [I would be especially interested in other books that are about, or written by, people who are not from the USA or England, like this one]
Everything by David Sedaris
Everything by Kurt Vonnegut
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series
Good Omens and other Terry Pratchett books
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Three Men in a Boat by J. K. Jerome
Running with Scissors/Dry by Augusten Burroughs
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
I never see these recommended and I loved or liked them a lot:
Treasure Island!!! By Sarah Levine [A top example of 21st century comedy]
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis [A top example of 20th century comedy]
The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray [A top example of 19th century comedy]
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Hotels of North America by Rick Moody
Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
Why Are You So Sad? By Jason Porter
The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible! by Jonathan Goldstein
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
The Asterix comics
Stuff that usually gets recommended that I have read and thought were fine, but wouldn’t necessarily seek more of:
Allie Brosh’s stuff
Hark! A Vagrant
I am America! (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert
The Night Vale books
John Dies at the End by David Wong
Christopher Moore’s books
Everything else by Bill Bryson
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
Stuff that usually gets recommended that I didn’t care for:
Anything by Chuck Palahniuk
Anything by Thomas Pynchon
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Dresden Files series
The Martian by Andy Weir
Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
Most celebrity comedian me
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Buenosdillas
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
[Removed]
You take away their little brooms
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
Bob
Him: I can explain everything!
(It's his best joke yet I think)
So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."
Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.
Just to clarify, 12345678
Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...
Notices there's only 2;
Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."
I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.
