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Tsundoku
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Bookworm
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Q: A fable in which pigs with human heads are born because the shepherds had no women with them

Joseph_JaroslavI am trying to find a fable I read a long time ago (some 40 years ago, maybe), probably in a collection, probably in Spanish. From what I have been searching so far, it seems it isn't one of the classic Greek-roman fables, though it was written in Aesop's fables style - rural setting, countrymen,...

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verbose
verbose
11:41 AM
In other news, someone gifted me a copy of Swimming in the Dark, lately so celebrated on this site, so I'm finally going to get to read it. Yippee!
 
verbose
verbose
11:58 AM
@Randal'Thor I have no intention of voting to close. I'm just trying to understand (for my own edification) where the boundary is between good questions that ask for subjective interpretation, and questions that are merely opinion-based. @Tsundoku's later comment is helpful, as is your own explanation.
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
@verbose Was that someone addicted to pasta, by any chance?
@verbose It's a difficult boundary to define, but the help centre (although tailored to SO) is surprisingly useful even here on Lit: Good Subjective questions "inspire answers that explain why and how", "tend to have long, not short, answers", "have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone", and "insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references".
To take perhaps an overly exaggerated example: "do you like this character or not" invites pure opinion, but "does the book portray this character in a positive or negative light" invites well-thought-out answers with evidence from the text.
 
 
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Bookworm
Bookworm
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Q: Story about boy riding with a caravan and inventing a story which turns out to be true

user11235As a child I have read a book about a boy riding in a caravan which is joint by a traveler who is a story-teller and invents a story together with the boy. At the end, this story turns out to be essentially true and the story-teller is the hero of this invented story who rejoins his love who he p...

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Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
3:38 PM
@Tsundoku @NapoleonWilson Either of you German speakers familiar with Paul Celan? There's a bounty up for grabs.
 
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
I have looked at that question but Celan is rather hermetic.
 
 
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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
9:55 PM
Almost a year ago, the question Why do some readers continue reading young adult fiction? was closed as opinion-based. I didn't agree with that decision. And look what I found today: Why So Many Adults Love Young-Adult Literature in The Atlantic.
 
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
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