"Then up and crew the milk-white cock, / And up and crew the gray; / Her lover vanish'd in the air"

[larryhammer]

Three literary links:

25 things learned from closing a bookstore. "If you think people with trucks avoid you when you're getting ready to move to a new apartment, just wait until you're closing a bookstore." (via)

The properties of the social network of characters in the Odyssey and Beowulf suggest there is a historical basis on real people at its core, in contrast to that of Tain Bo Cuailnge, which has a more artificial geometry. (original paper, via forgotten)

A short story about confusing the NSA with emails of Finnegan's Wake and Hopkins. (via)

---L.

Comments

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

Fascinating about those so-called social networks. I am unsurprised re: Táin.

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:-)

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I love the fact that Twitter is now apparently the touchstone of reality. Also, the "at least" in "the story is based, at least in part, on real events".

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:-)

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Didn't that social-network analysis of epics come out awhile ago? Or maybe they wrote another paper about the same work... (And I thought someone had looked at the Nibelungenlied through the same lens, because parts of it are known to be based on real people so it made a good test case.)

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

BZZZT The Tech Review cites Milgram's discredited "six degrees" work! Uh oh.

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:-)