> After several repetitions of this, Samson decides that being shaved, blinded and crushed will be less exasperating than listening to any more of Delilah's nagging.

A very off-tangent note, but I recently learned that Samson's last words, "ἀποθανέτω ἡ ψυχή μου μετὰ τῶν ἀλλοφύλων"/"moriatur anima mea cum Philisthiim", pretty much have never been translated into English literally; it's always "Let me die with the Philistines" for some reason.

Pleased to see Roget's thesaurus here. It's a fantastic resource without a great digital equivalent. I've found LLMs helpful in a pinch (and it's certainly better than a standard thesaurus), but Roget's is still the book I turn to for tricky word-picking problems.

Slightly off topic: The title hits home. When I was young, books were a luxury item. Less rich people just used the library. But the library had a strict 7 books rental policy. Not enough for the avid reader that also needed a small programming reference library. So I had 3 steady, occasionally 4th, library card pool from family members to keep my bookshelf operational.

was expecting umberto eco after the first few - I'm sure you've either read him or desperately should!

I’ve been told the Legacy Standard Bible is one where the translators tried to not use the same English word when the original Greek or Hebrew words are different.

FYI: https://m.youtube.com/c/legacystandardbible

We read some passages from Decameron back in high school. Lovely book really, I should take the time to really read it cover to cover.

NIV is what I grew up with and I kind of tired of it because of that... I have a soft spot for the KJV/NKJV.

I just need The Wind in the Willows :)

> For example, Moses is easy to recognize at lower right, because of the glowing horns

I'm sorry, what? Why is Moses depicted with glowing horns?

And I bet you won't guess what any of them are.

A sequel that diverges from and dwarfs its predecessor -- Deleuze & Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus (translated into English) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816614028/a-thousand-plateaus...

Ah the classic

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Get the data off those drives now, rather than later. The longer you hope to get the data, the more hopeless it will be.