haikus are so bad
there is better poetry
but I cant do that

It was 4 hours
And 40 minutes that I
Was winning this time

And I was winning
Thirty minutes except I
Dislodged myself... D'oh!

Oops

Things fall apart
Haikus fluttering because
the centre cannot hold

I was winning for 33 minutes

I was winning for 3 hours 15 minutes.

Wait. . . this is a haiku? This is a haiku!

“On the rocky road
To Dub-buh-lin lah-dee-dah
One two three four five”

—The Dropkick Murphys

I don't even count the duration of my wins...

Argentinian
You’re now the winning player
Lift your haiku game

The Ambassador
and the Argentinean
nothing to see here

We are doing this?
I thought it was over then
please use words to win

can I use numbers instead?

120
3700
77

This is now a time
Of great volatility
In the winning thread

I guess you can use numbers.

You fools! 7607 was prime. Prime, I tell you.

Numbers? That’s alright
Cauchy-Euler equation
Three and seven tenths.

gopher that was almost a haiku

You fools! Seven thou
Six hundred seven was prime.
Prime, I tell you. Prime!

A prime haiku

five-five-five-five-five
seven-seven-seven-se
ven-five-five-five-five

Yawn. When people start posting Petrarchan sonnets, I will start being impressed. No Spencerian or English sonnets will do.

Anybody have any suggestions for good history and mythology books to read?

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The Lord of the Rings kind of combined both.

Yeah, LOTR is like mythology that is written like history at times.

I’ve already read LOTR multiple times though...

Hmm then you need something further back in the timeline, try The Silmarillion, Beren and Luthien and The Fall of Gondolin then.

History books:

"The Proud Tower", by Barbara Tuchman. One of my very favorite books. This is a portrait of Europe and the USA in the 25 years before WWI. For me, playing Diplomacy got me interested in this fascinating time.

"Team of Rivals", by Doris Kearns Goodwin. This is about Abraham Lincoln and the US Civil War. Very well written.

"The Killer Angels", by Michael Shaara. This is the history of the battle of Gettysburg, one of the most important in the US Civil War, novelized. Thinking about this book has led me to start rereading it. It's another classic.

For a historical novel, I also recommend "Birds Without Wings", by Louis de Bernieres. Set in Turkey in the time period before, during, and after WWI, it tells the story of the inhabitants of a small village in Anatolia, populated by both Turkish Muslims and Greek Christians, and the times are extremely turbulent. It gets a bit melodramatic at times, but does a good job of capturing details about a setting not always understood by Westerners.