The black and white dualism is probably the most common dichotomy and can be traced back to Pythagoras' Table of Opposites, which lists both good and evil as well a well light and darkness. Usually all of those light/white/day/good are opposed to darkness/black/night/evil.
Since you asked for th...
Salacious title, but true story.
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they are not grammatical or spelling errors that make questions harder to read
I disagree with that. Using capitals and paragraphs the right way actually makes the post easier to read. And that is exactly what we want! We want a useful, clear Q/A knowledge base.
Of course, we value every si...
In Jasper Fforde's "book world," Miss Havisham is a speed demon who races cars with Mr. Toad. This seems... out of character, based on my understanding of her.
Is it just funny because it's unexpected, or is there a joke or reference I'm not getting?
If we look at the map, we can conclude that Lilliput is in the Indian Ocean. Is there any significance to its location in the Indian Ocean? What is that significance, if any?
This question concerns "Choose Your Own Adventure" books. These are books that start out as a normal story, but then ask the reader to make a choice. (The book will say something to the effect of "turn to page 8 if yes, page 9 if no"). In this fashion, the story expands like a tree.
It seems to...
While reviewing the suggested edits queue, I ran across a number of new tag wiki excerpts from the same user, all starting with "For issues relating to". For example:
gantt: For issues relating to creating or displaying gantt charts.
divide-by-zero: For issues relating to handling or preventing...
It seems that Holmes's assessment of Milverton as "the worst man in London" was due less to long experience of the man than to the extreme revulsion he felt about him. It didn't take an exceptionally long study of Milverton and his methods for Holmes to get the gist of the man, and to realise tha...
Good question!
It's open to many possible interpretations. Lewis Carroll intended it to be little more than a joke, with no real answer, but his readers bugged him so much that eventually he proposed an answer, which he included in the preface to the 1896 (some sources say 1897) edition of Alice...
