Author: opoudjis

What were the biggest highlights of Australia’s cultural history?

By: | Post date: May 4, 2017 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Australia

Ooh. That’s a tough one, and I’m going to want backup on this. The nationalist writers of the 1890s: Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. Culturally defining figures. At the same time, the Heidelberg School of painters (back when Heidelberg was on the outskirts of Melbourne, instead of suburbia); just as strongly defining of Australia’s self-perception, […]

How do you retain and instill an ethnic identity from birth when living in a foreign country?

By: | Post date: May 2, 2017 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Culture

I’m not going to speak to the details of the question, but to the general question: how to help instill your ethnic identity abroad, in a child whose identity you have some say in. (If you don’t have a direct say in it, Andrew Crawford’s answer applies: be a good role model.) Acknowledge that the […]

What are the best counterpoint duets?

By: | Post date: May 2, 2017 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Music

The canonical counterpoint duets are surely Bach’s Two Part Inventions: It doesn’t get better. God bless Gerubach on YouTube. Answered 2017-05-02 [Originally posted on http://quora.com/What-are-the-best-counterpoint-duets/answer/Nick-Nicholas-5]

Can you write a poem about yourself?

By: | Post date: May 1, 2017 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Personal

jIDel’eghmeH jIbomchugh, chay’ vIta’?ghopwIj roSHa’moH qaD, ’ej jatwIj qa’..i mi te pemci mi .ei ta’i ma.i go’i lesedu’u mi mo daKiel poemi pri mi mem? Ĉu praala stilo estu? Aŭ ĉu forbalaa?De memet si canendum, fulminaextinguant niteantque carmina.Περὶ ἐμοῦ εἰ γέγραφ’ ἀγαθά,ψευδῶς· ψευδῶς γ’ εἰ πλεῖστα χαλεπά. A poem on myself? It won’t scan far.Best […]

Why do Greek parents not allow their grown children to take care of themselves?

By: | Post date: May 1, 2017 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Culture, Greece

So let me tell you an anecdote. I have a relative in Greece of roughly my age, who was studying at university away from home, 20-odd years ago. (Since “home” is a town of 7000 people with only a nursing school, that’s not hard to imagine.) Said relative at some stage took a job distributing […]

What’s your process for writing poetry?

By: | Post date: May 1, 2017 | Comments: 2 Comments
Posted in categories: Culture, Personal

Clear my head No, really clear my head Have a vague idea of what the argument is that I’m going to write Have a concrete idea of what the form is that I’m going to write in Start thinking up phrases in iambic pentameter Keep thinking up phrases in iambic pentameter Wait till my heart […]

Would you listen to a 5-hour symphony?

By: | Post date: April 27, 2017 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Music

I sat through the 1992 revival of Einstein on the Beach, which goes for five hours, and which is much more static (as hardcore minimalist music) than a symphony would be. I had no problem sitting through the entire thing—even though the opera creators imagined you could walk in and out as you pleased. And […]

In your opinion, do most people who think they are too smart to get arrested end up getting away with their crimes?

By: | Post date: April 27, 2017 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Culture

I will instead volunteer Lt. Columbo’s opinion. From the pilot episode. You’re probably right. He sounds just too clever for us. What I mean is, you know, cops, we’re not the brightest guys in the world. Of course, we got one thing going for us: we’re professionals. I mean, you take our friend here, the […]

What does your happiness routine involve? What kinds of things do you routinely do to keep your sanity, or to treat yourself to something nice?

By: | Post date: April 26, 2017 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Personal

I don’t do enough of this, especially right now. But I’m more of an introvert than I like to think, and I’m happiest when I’m walking down a street, late at night on my lonesome; or (as tonight) when I stay back in the office, in the quiet, and with the lights off. It’s calm. […]

I Am Porthos

By: | Post date: April 25, 2017 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Quora

Nick Nicholas’ answer to What happened when your friends found out about you being a famous Quoran? Well, the prize for this goes to a friend of my wife’s, who took to saying “Oh My God, you’re, like, the Beyoncé of Quora”. I mean, obviously. Steve Theodore, https://www.quora.com/What-happe… My response: … Wow. Who knew that […]

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