> "I remember the will said 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle replied. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare. - Ellen Raskin, "The Westing Game"
One passage from A Dance with Dragons has got me wondering how GRRM leaves clues for his readers.
He tried to count the pennies nailed to the old oak, but there were too many of them and he kept losing count. What’s that all about? The Blackwood boy would tell him if he asked, but that would...
@Gallifreyan True, though I suspect you know the answer yourself :)
@Gallifreyan - it really is way-too-obvious of an anagram; especially if you know the context
@Gallifreyan re: your answer about Anka/Anechka: one point I was going to make is that the Russian grammatical term for the form is "уменьшително-ласкательное" - it's not only diminutive; but "dimunitive-endearing/affectionate"; the latter being often (though not exclusively) used in romantic context. I don't think the hero's ages are right for the latter to have been a factor but not certain.
@Skooba Hmm, I don't know whether votes are still visible to the voter on their profile after they've been reversed. I've never been a serial voter ;-)
Actually I did get some of my votes reversed once, but it was on meta (same user posting a bunch of poll-type answers and I downvoted too many too quickly).
@DVK-on-Ahch-To I'm afraid I don't. I tried googling РБИА or РБА, but it was all unrelated. And my age didn't allow me to have witnessed any of the Soviet political stuff, so this question, shall it be asked, would be left entirely to you.
@DVK-on-Ahch-To Regarding your comment - I tried to convey that in my answer, but my English vocabulary constrained me. Also, I think it would be more likely that Anton would have some sort of romantic feeling towards Anka, since they seem to be similar in some ways, and he clearly likes her. Pavel seems to busy playing pirates.
@Randal'Thor I congratulate you for prompting a thoughtful book discussion involving knowledge of Russian language and culture after only having read the prologue :P
This is not a question. Can you recommend a short story(1-15 pages if possible) that was written during the realism period(Ca 1830-1860) and is realistic. Thank you.
Near the end of The Return of the King, the last Volume of the Lord of the Rings, the hobbits return to the Shire. There, they meet up with Saruman and his follower Grima (Wormtongue). When Grima attempted to slay Frodo, failing because of the Mithril coat, Frodo replies,
'No, Sam!' said Fr...
@Gallifreyan @DVK Unfortunately Gilles already gave me the answer to the direct question of "what's the anagram reference?" But I could still post something along the lines of "how is Don Reba meant to represent the real-world figure, beyond the similarity in their names?", in the hope of some insightful character analysis.
Actually I didn't realise that would be so assumption-explodey for lit analysis. All I was trying to do was move away from the SFF mentality of overanalysing every little unimportant detail.
literature.stackexchange.com/q/2224/139 "Was the sealed letter ordering Hamlet's death a Biblical reference?" should really need an answer from someone who is actually familiar with Shakespeare's work and the background on it.
@b_jonas It's got a pretty good answer already, IMO. But if you want to find a Shakespeare expert, @JoshuaEngel implied that he's directed various Shakespeare plays.
@Shokhet top tags! with 9 reputation! and people look at me funny if I'm not answering questions about the Dark Lord anymore because I don't want [voldemort] to become my second bronze tag badge.
@Shokhet Just to be clear, they are all bronze tag badges (my only gold tag ones are harry-potter and star-wars and the-force-awakens and silver star-trek)
@Shokhet Legendary and the gold The-Force-Awakens are probably two I'm most proud of. I would be proud of 8 "great answer" ones but in my opinion, HNQ basically makes this a meaningless badge, as are most rep based ones at this point.
From the afterword of Hard to be a God:
On the advice of I. A. Efremov, we renamed the Minister of the Defense of the Crown Don Reba (he had previously been Don Rebia—an overly simple anagram, in the opinion of Ivan Antonovich.)
-- 2015 translation
While I enjoy anagram puzzles, I wasn...
@DVK-on-Ahch-To Especially since you got the gold TFA badge in the space of, what, a month? after the film came out and the questions started being asked.
Meanwhile, over on Puzzling, I now have the only gold tag badge and 60% of all silver tag badges ever awarded :-)