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1:52 AM

Q: What word-only novels, if any, have been influenced in structure by graphic novel comic books?

Since the form of the graphic novel became widespread three decades ago, has it been influential on any word-only (not hybrid) novels, and if so which ones?

comics

Shokhet

2:23 AM

I wonder how Lit.SE will do on this quiz:

Put your bot-sniffing skills to the test. http://t.ted.com/AekfSZe

Tweeted by TEDTalks on November 15, 2017 at 2:17 AM

^^^ three pairs of poems from bot or not -- one human, one computer-generated. The game is to guess which is which. Essentially a Turing test, I suppose.

user15026

I got 2 out of 3

Catija

@Ash which two?

user15026

First one and last one

Catija

Same. Gertrude Stein writes weird poetry.

user15026

@BESW Was it you that mentioned The Cybernetic Tea Shop?

user15026

2:38 AM

(I had $5 in Amazon credit from a survey I did, that was one of the things I used it on)

BESW

@Ash A quick search suggests that no one has.

user15026

Hm, weird

user15026

I swore it was here that I heard about it

user15026

Maybe it was on Twitter, then, that's really the only other place I hear about books

user15026

It feels like something you'd potentially like/recommend, but I don't know for sure (haven't read it yet)

Catija

2:40 AM

Huh, only two uses of "teashop" on the entirety of chat.

BESW

[looks up]

Catija

Though, that's without the space, so ...

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user61230

6:22 AM

@b_jonas H-her, detective books

Bookworm

6:44 AM

Q: In Brave New World, why are some people not sterile?

In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, natural means of reproduction are no longer necessary and most of the population is sterile. Why would the government choose to have some people remain fertile? A possible reason I have speculated is that it could improve the economy through the purchasing an...

aldous-huxley brave-new-world

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b_jonas

11:02 AM

Q: Should we bowdlerise obscenities in question titles?

For example, In "Fuck Blocher", why does Bligg say he speaks for the swiss youth and secondos? - should the title say "Fuck Blocher" or "F*** Blocher"? Arguments for F***: it avoids displaying NSFW language on anyone's screen unless they actually click on the question; it decreases the likeliho...

discussion asking-questions titles

^ This isn't a question that occurred to me, because all the literature I read already censors f-words by the writer's decision.

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doppelspooker

2:49 PM

@b_jonas Hyperion features a poet whose speech is liberally populated with uncensored swear words. :)

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Mithrandir

7:40 PM

So Deeper was definitely creepier than Tunnels. But I managed to predict the ending pretty well. I even guessed most of the people who died.

Tim E. Lord

I watched Night Watch and Day Watch again, and now my feelings about those films are even more mixed

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Bookworm

9:11 PM

Q: Wizard's appearances in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

It's been a long time since I read the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but Wikipedia confirms my memory of events. When the four protagonists appear individually before the Wizard, he has a different appearance for each of them: The Scarecrow sees a beautiful woman The Tin Woodsman sees a mon...