I just rolled that question back because it's not about different versions of the same telling of the story (i.e., the same poem or tale that exists in more than one manuscript or print edition) but just about how the story itself changed (i.e., the story got told differently so it had a different moral attached to it). So textual-history was inappropriate but history-of-literature seems fine.
I looked through all the other textual-history questions and this was the only one that needed the fix. I guess I didn't read the question properly when we were going through the retagging exercise, apologies.
> If a woman were to grab up a bottle of Grade A and say to her husband, "Get away from me or I'll hit you with the milk," that would be a Thing Contained for the Container.
(Thurber calls this a metonymy, but technically it's a synecdoche)
In his Against Heresies (c. 180 AD), Ireneaus of Lyon writes
[God] pronounced no curse against Adam personally, but against the
ground, in reference to his works, as a certain person among the
ancients has observed: “God did indeed transfer the curse to the
earth, that it might not remain in man...
^ quote-source question on History SE; it hasn't been conclusively answered there, but I wonder if any of our quote-finding gurus (@GarethRees or @Tsundoku?) could do better.
@Randal'Thor I think the OP here is asking about the original French title, Soudain un bloc d'abîme, Sade (the English translation is Sade: A Sudden Abyss, omitting the "block"). I've clarified the question accordingly
@Randal'Thor If experts on early Christian writings have been unable to identify the quote, then it is probable that the work quoted has been lost
In "Stuart Little" by E.B.White, Stuart was having a conversation with the attendant of a gas station:
"Five, please," said Stuart to the attendant. The man looked at the
tiny automobile in amazement. "Five what?" he asked. "Five drops,"
said Stuart. But the man shook his head and said that he...
I'm a German studies college student from outside Germany and I am looking for some contemporary literature (novels, short stories, poem, anything but film and drama, released 2011-2021) that talks about (or circulates around) feminism that is written in German for my assignment. I need ones that...
Annie Le Brun written a book called Sade A Sudden block of Abyss.
In "Stuart Little" by E.B.White, Stuart was having a conversation with the attendant of a gas station:
"Five, please," said Stuart to the attendant. The man looked at the
tiny automobile in amazement. "Five what?" he asked. "Five drops,"
said Stuart. But the man shook his head and said that he...
