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Bookworm

8:16 AM

Q: Is there a book out there that contain nothing but questions?

Can there be a book that contain 12000 questions for example? Which book has the most number of questions?

the-bible

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Bookworm

9:56 AM

Q: Narratives that reflect on the mental health of women as the element of the “haunted house”?

I am working on a research paper and I am looking for books or short stories similar to The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte P. Gilman, or The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. I would like to find narratives that reflect on the mental health of women from the 19th and 20th centuries, with ...

poetry short-stories symbolism interpretation charlotte-perkins-gilman

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Napoleon Wilson

12:34 PM

@bobble Everyone is busy...Keeping Quiet. Buahahaha!

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bobble

4:02 PM

@Spagirl my computer's spellchecker makes it easy to autocorrect cafe to café :)

Other things it catches include lowercase "i"

I'm often baffled at what it thinks are and aren't words, but it works well enough

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b_jonas

7:13 PM

Q: Did the word 'pillywiggin' exist (in print) before 1977?

I’m looking for anything published before 1977 which mentions pillywiggins (or any similar words). They would be fairies or just small creatures associated with flowers. These creatures have appeared in some modern fantasy works, and are usually claimed to be from folklore, but their first appea...