Fritz Leiber's short story "A Pail of Air" (available to read online at Project Gutenberg) is set in a post-apocalyptic world, with a family who believe they are the only survivors after the Earth left the Sun and its atmosphere froze solid. The cause of the apocalypse is said to have been a "dar...
So the first two lines of the pre-chorus of All-Star by Smash Mouth the song goes:
Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming
Fed to the rules and I hit the ground running
What does Smash Mouth mean when he writes "fed to rules"? The analysis in Genius says that "'Fed to the rules'...
There's only one named character in this translation of Fontane's "Die Brück’ am Tay" ("The Bridge by the Tay"): "Johnnie". Johnnie shows up twice in the poem:
Now, mother, away with bad dreams, for, see,
Our Johnnie is coming!—He’ll want his tree.
And
“There’s the bridge still,” says Johnnie....This question is a follow-up to How has knowledge of the Ur-Hamlet evolved over the centuries? in which we learned about how it first came to be postulated that Shakespeare's Hamlet was based on an earlier story of the same name by a different writer. Another question naturally arising out of thi...
