Probably the King James.
Pretty sure: [link]
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King James bible has some of best poetry in English language. As a Jewish Atheist I own one for that reason. Part of me thinks a KJB is a very Goth thing to own, but as a non-Goth my opinion on that is not well informed.
I had a very academically annotated Bible I bought for a Bible as Lit course in grad school, which was a fantastic course, and I'd read it several times before then.
But I sold it at Half Price Books during one of my broke phases for gas or food. There are just SO many resources for the Bible on-line, I don't feel compelled to have a hard copy for reference.
Style guides and the Writer's Market are another matter...
Dang, I can't believe I can still geek out about this shit.
Oh, I totally geek out and find it fascinating. I just don't believe in it.
Dang, I can't believe I can still geek out about this shit.
It is eminently geekable. This year my office Christmas party was a bus tour around the Yarra Valley (a wine region just outside Melbourne). I spent the bus ride out doing my own religious geekout in discussion with my boss.
I was the go-to authority of Catholicism and Saints and historical Christianity when I worked for the library cataloging company. We'd be doing libraries with extensive religious collections, and I'd get asked "Is that a person or a place or both or what?" My habit of muttering "Blessed Mother" when annoyed pretty much cemented my identity as "probably not a Protestant, well, she is from Back East, you know."
I love that you people geek out about this stuff.
Me too!
The bible is the most the most geeked about writing ever. Torah scholars and cloistered monks are the original nerds.
The god of the old testament does so many inexplicably terrible things to men and women that I'd be hard put to figure out which sex fares worse. The new testament gives us Paul.
I seek the collective knowledge of the hivemind. I'm DYING of allergies. My eyes are weepy and itchy, my nose is perma-stuffed, you know how it is. Antihistamines help, but they also put me into a drugged stupor. My motivation and drive are low normally; add anti-H and I am like a lotus eater, lolling around being languid and getting nothing done.
I've tried Zyrtec, Benadryl, and Chlortrimeton, and today I bought Claritin because it says non-drowsy but I haven't tried it. Does anyone know anything that will relieve allergy symptoms and still allow me to focus and get stuff done? Anything! I'm close to trying homeopathy, here.
Allegra tends to make me less drowsy than the others, but different people would react to it differently. There are plenty of "non-drowsy" medicines that knock me out for hours.