Anyone who can explain me?What this is and what exactly it symbols. Got it from a chinese business man as a present at work in Germany. (1)
if you're reading an old paperback book, how'd you make sure pages don't fall out orpages fall loose? i have a lot of old paperbacks, second hand, in good condition for their age and i'm hesitant to read any of them in case pages fall loose whilst reading.. any advice or thoughts welcomed
Post - Antiquity TBR (a slightly crazy selection)1. Dante's Divine Comedy -- I have a translation which someone on Better Than Food's Patreon strongly recommended, it's a prose version and for each canto there's commentary. Plus his Vita Nuovo. In honor of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life 2.... See More »
Demosthenes' First Olynthiac down the hatchIt's gonna be a wild ride with this guy, of the 61 speeches some weren't by him, some were by Apollodorus if you can dig it. In this he's begging for money for a war effort against Phillip of Macedon, yes, that was Alexander the Great's dad I... See More »