Maeterlinck Puns

I'm reading Maeterlinck's masterful "The Life of the Bee," and I came across this passage. He's quoting a physiologist acquaintance of his.

> I have studied these people for many years. We are in Normandy; the soil is rich and easily tilled. Around this stack of corn there is rather more comfort than one would usually associate with a scene of this kind. The result is that most of the men, and many of the women, are alcoholic. Another poison also, which i need not name, corrodes the race. To that, to the alcohol, are due the children whom you see there: the dwarf, the one with the harelip, the others who are knock-need, scrofulous, imbecile.

What is this 'other poison'?

Born in the Belgian city of Ghent, Maurice Maeterlinck was showered with honours during his lifetime. It was on 9 November 1911 that the Swedish Academy announced it was awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature that year to the Belgian author. And 100 years later, in 2011, he is still the only Belgian writer to have received this much-coveted award.

The Maeterlinck Room was established in the Arnold Vander Haeghen Museum in 1976. This unpretentious museum receives visitors from all over the world: France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Central Europe, Japan, etc. The comments in the guest books are a testament to Maurice Maeterlinck's continuing drawing power and the fact that his work is still appreciated by people all over the world.

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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.

For my 2022 reading challenge I have decided to read 1-3 books from every country in the world. This past year I attempted to do the same but the lack of preparation meant I was bogged down finding and waiting for books. Below is my reading list I have compiled as several people have mentioned they were interest.

Facts

It contains 520ish books with two countries I still need to find something for. 40% are female, 55% are male, and 5% are by various authors. There is a mixture of fiction and non-fiction. It includes everything from memoirs, cookbooks, histories, anthologies, legends, folkstories, poetry, plays, fantasy, romance, chick-lit, and scifi. The bulk is literary fiction.

Methodology

I started with the books I owned that I haven't read or wish to reread. I then looked through my TBR list on goodreads and reassigned those. From there I looked up my favorite authors on https://www.literature-map.com/, and included other authors similar to my favorites. From there I googled each country for their top 1-2 most popular authors. I finished with suggestions from reddit (including the country threads on r/books) and the amazing https://ayearofreadingtheworld.com/thelist/ . Authors with unlisted titles are because I was not able to find a copy of any book by the author at my library or for purchase (<7$) secondhand. These will need to be ILL and I’ll be deciding on the exact title when I apply for the loan.

Updates

I will be updating reviews of the books, as I go, on a subreddit I made for this called r/worldwidebooks . People are welcome to join me in the challenge for all of them, parts, or just to laugh.

List

Afghanistan

• Qais Akbar Omar, Fort of Nine Towers
• Nelofer Pazira, A Bed of Red Flowers
• Farah Ahmedi, The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky

Albania

• Gjergj Fishta, The Highland Lute
• Kadare, Spring Essence
• Elvira Dones, Sworn Virgin

Algeria

• Camus, Myth of Syshus
• Horne, A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
• Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Chaos of the Senses

Andorra

• Albert Salvadó, The Teacher of Cheops

Angola

• Pepetela, The Return of the Water Spirit
• Jose Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons
• Ondjaki, The Whistler

Antigua and Barbuda

• Jamaica Kincaid , A Small Place
• Joanne C. Hillhouse , Lost
• Althea Price , Being Black

Argentina

• Borges , Labryinth, Ficciones
• Julio Cortázar , Blow Up and Other Stores
• Silvina Ocampo , Thus Were Their Faces

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!