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myrmepropagandist · 10w
"A History of the Novel in Ants" by Carol Hart, a somewhat obscure fiction book that I bought blind because it's about ant (I collect ant fiction) is really wonderful. Carol Hart writes with a deep ...
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@nprofile1q... Have you read ๅ—ๆŸฏ่ฎฐ (Nรกn kฤ“ jรฌ or Dream Under the Southern Bough) by Tang Xianzu? It's a play from 1600 that tells the story of a disgraced soldier who becomes a monk by way of being taken to a kingdom of ants where he rises to one of the princes.

There's a few good translations of it out there, as well as a novel version of it (in translation) available.