Ishmael and other characters repeated refer to Queequeg as a cannibal, which in modern parlance means that he consumes human flesh. However, the novel doesn't ever say that outright, rather, Ishmael just seems to use the word to indicate that Queequeg was just non-native from a distant land that ...

In the January 2004 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, they ran a story called "Nimitseahpah", by Nancy Etchemendy. 'Nimitseahpah' is the name of the Paiute statue that's part of the story: "It has a powerful name. Nimitseahpah. The Paiutes never say it aloud. They only whi...

In Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive novels, the chapters are grouped into parts, the titles of the parts combining to form a ketek. For example, in the first book, The Way of Kings: Above Silence The Illuminating Storms Dying Storm's Illumination The Silence Above Combined: Above si...

I'm trying to find a YA novel that I read sometime between 1977 and 1980 from our public library (after I started reading "big books" in second grade, but before we moved from that town). Two notes: We lived in a small town in Iowa (USA) with an underfunded library that had a lot of older book...

In The Sandman: Overture #5, Dream speaks with Night while paying a "social visit". There, Night claims Dream and Desire are very much alike: I tend to agree with Morpheus on this one. It is true that he acted dumbly by dooming Nada to Hell; he has other quirks as well, like always demanding t...