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BESW

12:01 AM

@Hero Double returns.

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Hamlet

1:31 AM

@BESW out of curiosity, have you taken a look at my question/answer How can the Huexotzinco Codex be read? I would love your feedback.

@Mithrandir if you haven't seen it yet, this is the post: How can the Huexotzinco Codex be read?

Also, Shabbat Shalom

BESW

Looks interesting, but I have neither time nor brain for it right now.

A quick glance reminds me of some of the subjects discussed in Neither Wolf nor Dog, though.

Hero

Special thanks to Hamlet for the nice edit.

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Hamlet

4:42 AM

@Hero np, hope you stick around

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Hamlet

3:27 PM

Anyone mind if I go ahead and post this:

A: Could /help/on-topic be filled in?

(Just had a second, contradictory idea that might also be worth consideration, so I'm posting it as a second answer, so that the community can vote on it separately.) It might be worth listing some examples of what is or isn't on-topic in the help center. For example, it could look like this: ...

If someone edits the CW I can update the help center

@Randal'Thor you'll probably find this interesting: How can the Huexotzinco Codex be read?

Gallifreyan

3:57 PM

@Hamlet Looks good.

Hamlet

@Gallifreyan posted. If anyone has any changes, ping me here or edit the meta post (I'll get a notification)

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Rand al'Thor

5:40 PM

@Hamlet Looks very interesting indeed. I don't have time to read it all (and all those linked pages) now, but already gave it an upvote.

Also, ending your answer with a bunch of questions is a daring move. Flagged as NaA! ;-)

Hamlet

5:55 PM

@Randal'Thor one of the things that's interesting about it is that it's an example of a time when the definition of literature was politicized.

Gallifreyan

It took me a couple of months and a reading of The Sandman Companion to realise that when Lucifer abandoned Hell and went to Earth, he chose to start a piano bar in the Los Angeles. I've wondered "Why LA?" before, but only got it now.

Hamlet

@Gallifreyan self answered question?

Gallifreyan

@Hamlet Too easy (one simply has to know that LA = City of Angels, which I didn't because I'm not American) - downvote magnet. Though I have a not-so-easy question about Lucifer, which I'll post tomorrow.

Gallifreyan

6:29 PM

@Hamlet I noticed there are some example questions you posted on Area 51 proposal that I didn't see here (e.g. the one about Lolita) - care to post them here?

Hamlet

@Gallifreyan no, those questions were mostly taken from the last proposal, and I find that proposal questions make bad real-site questions.

If you want, you can post them yourself.

I tend to like to ask questions about books I've just read; I find that the quality of those questions is better

Gallifreyan

Ah, well, I thought I'd just remind you in case you had forgotten about them.

I started reading We Stand on Guard (It's total war again, but this time American scorches Canada). Some fun banter about Superman