The Reading Room - 2017-06-04

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1:26 AM

MiP Episode 58: Marcus Kwame Anderson (illustrator for the comic Snow Daze and creator of the webcomic EastRaven) speaks to Jenn about the correlation of categories in the field of visual arts as compared to the written genre, how collaboration works from the illustrators perspective, and about his own projects and aims to create stories his own children can read and see themselves in.

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2:55 AM

@Mithrandir Thank you :) The song is still stuck in my head, but it hasn't become annoying. Yet.

It helps, a little bit, that I have more than one earworm right now :P

@Bookworm @Gallifreyan @Hamlet I don't know either site very well, but I think English Language Learners might be a better site than Writers for that question (and probably that user).

(Yay for seeing deleted posts!)

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4:27 AM

@Shokhet neither site takes proofreading questions

4:56 AM

Submissions are currently OPEN for FIYAH Issue #4. The theme is ROOTS. This window will close at 11:59PM ET on July 31st.

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7:57 AM

I've got 5 bullet points against title tags. I'll try to write something up soon.

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10:15 AM

Welp, my copy of The SEA is Ours is coming by boat.

Naturally.

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1:10 PM

@BESW of course it is. Just look at the title.

1:46 PM

Oh great. @Shokhet you got Hallelujah stuck in my head. It's been half stuck since I heard it at the sound and light show in Yerushalayim, but now it's really stuck. I sense another question coming up...

#Quote found! https://literature.stackexchange.com/q/2622/481

Tweeted by StackLiterature on June 4, 2017 at 1:10 PM

2:03 PM

@Mithrandir Good to know. I was fairly certain that Writers didn't, but I didn't know about ELL.

@Mithrandir Nah nah nah nah nah :P

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They even have a custom close reason.

@Mithrandir Probably for people like me who just waltz in to their site and assume that proofreading questions are okay there :P

2:41 PM

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Q: How does the line 'your faith was strong but you needed proof' match the rest of the verse in "Hallelujah"?

The second verse of "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen goes like: Your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you She tied you to a kitchen chair She broke your throne, and she cut your hair And from your lips she drew...

song-lyrics leonard-cohen

This may not be perfect, but this search should find most of the questions asked for this month's challenge. — Shokhet 16 secs ago

@Shokhet Someone will have to be extra careful and manually add all the challenge questions.

2:57 PM

@Gallifreyan Right. I didn't add the link to the post as was done for previous challenges for that reason. The search will still probably be useful, though.

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4:07 PM

@Randal'Thor If I say that it was a character name that also appeared in a previous work of the writer, would this answer your this question?

Also that writer just picked it up from his previous work.

@AJ Hmm, that's interesting. If you can make a case that the character was also just based on someone else in a previous work, then go ahead.

But is it possible that the name came from a previous work while the character himself was still based on some real professor?

I can't say.

I found the interview of writer.

That says he picked this name from previous novel.

guillermomartinezweb.blogspot.in/2010/12/…

See if you can find more about this in above link.

I don't speak Spanish :-P But thanks!

@Randal'Thor I translated it. Are you using Google Chrome?

@Randal'Thor Though I posted an answer. And you can visit the link to know more about the writer.

5:04 PM

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Q: Story about about child slavery and mutilated body parts?

Can someone help me identify this story about child slavery? I read this last year in my English class and its a book about slavery. Synopsis: The Protagonist is a young male who collects unmarked cans. He collects certain types of containers, I am not sure what it is but anyway he collects ...

story-identification

Oh, yes. I forgot to mention that I found Gaiman's Norse Mythology on the library's New Arrivals shelf, and read it through in an afternoon :)

I may have some questions about it later (perhaps for here, perhaps for Mythology. I've never used Mythology, though)

If (as Gaiman claims) his portrayal of the Aesir is loyal to the original myths, Marvel has really changed a lot. (Not that I fault them; the exact details of the originals don't really lend themselves to graphics or film very well)

5:35 PM

@Shokhet Wow! I ordered it for my uni's library as well, but it didn't arrive yet.

6:26 PM

great example of close reading, but also suggests alternatives to close reading

A Parallax Reading of Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”: On Abuse and Close and Distant Readings

6:48 PM

@Bookworm HNQ

7:02 PM

> added 6289 characters in body

7:21 PM

I take it you don't like my formatting, @Rand ...

@Mithrandir Isn't it nicer to have the quoted text actually associated with the bullet points, rather than outside them?

Since each piece of quoted text is actually relevant to a particular bullet point.

Also, you'd missed quote formatting on one of them, so it needed editing anyway.

...It is associated, IMO, but we've been through this before.

@Randal'Thor ah, whoops

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

@Gallifreyan we have already ;)

I don't have time for a fight just now anyway :-)

Maybe later, blue.

7:27 PM

o/

</obscure_reference>

</missed reference>

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8:58 PM

@Gallifreyan It's somehow shorter than I thought it would be. ~280 pages of story, 16 stories (including the chapters on how the world came to be)

@Shokhet Still didn't arrive to my library :(

@Gallifreyan :(

But how was the book?

It was nice. It feels a little educational (but then again, I picked it up to learn more about Norse mythology, so there's that), but not dry. There are definitely funny parts.

@Shokhet Neil Gaiman did a talk with Stephen Fry at Hay Festival, and read the chapter about Fenrir.

9:05 PM

It's not the Sandman, though. Much simpler/less trippy -- he says in the intro that he was trying to maintain the flavor of the original myths as much as he could.

@Gallifreyan The one where the Aesir discover him, and chain him up?

@Shokhet Yep.

"The Children of Loki"

I guess so.

I happen to have the book on the desk. That is the title of the chapter :)

Now that you seem to have time - finish The Sandman!

9:08 PM

The Politics of Neil Gaiman's 'Norse Mythology'

@Gallifreyan Waiting for them to come in from the library

@Gallifreyan or even better, research close reading!

(I am at work on a question/answer that should give a good example of what close reading is and why it is important.)

@Hamlet That looks very interesting. Bookmarked for further reading (alongside several of the article you've linked to in here about close reading)

Just skimming it; I find it fascinating that there are people who still identify as Norse pagans, still worshipping those gods.

> Reactions were polarized: On one side, throngs of fans were eager for the author’s recreation of these tales; on the other, a smaller, but no less vocal, group of self-proclaimed pagans seemed to dread his inevitable misunderstanding of their religious beliefs. At the time, none of these commenters had read Gaiman’s book.

@Shokhet You may still want to hear him read it :) It's at ~12 minutes.

@Gallifreyan Thanks. I actually had it playing in the background until I heard something like reading. I had gotten about 6 minutes in before I realized the interview was a full hour, and gave up :P

He starts at like 13:30

9:38 PM

...I'm glad I listened again. I missed a piece of foreshadowing in that story.

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11:02 PM

The latest word is "d-u-d-e" or "d-o-o-d." It sprang from nowhere in the last few weeks and now everyone is using it. KY1883

Tweeted by TweetsofOld on June 4, 2017 at 5:58 PM

11:37 PM

"With This Publisher, Native American Superheroes Fly High."

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In case anyone hasn't seen it: please vote/comment on this proposal for the tour page.

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