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Alex

1:43 AM

@Tsundoku A smartphone is smart enough to not use autocorrect if you tell it not to.

@Tsundoku One of the close votes could have aged away.

Bookworm

2:26 AM

Q: How long does it actually take to travel from Tishbi to the Kerith Ravine?

In Chapter Six of The Days of Elijah, when Elijah is told to go to the Kerith Ravine, the following description is given: The Kerith Ravine on the east bank of the Jordan, he knew the spot, maybe a day from Tishbi. Yet in the very next chapter, when Elijah thinks about leaving the ravine to go ...

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Eng Lit Learner

8:12 AM

Q: Meaning of "just leave in the images..."

She walked down the neon streets, and up again, and found her way back to the hotel. It was dark. He was lying on the bed watching a band on television. A girl was sitting at the dressing table, also watching, a spiky girl in a black and white houndstooth dress. Athena spoke from the door. ‘I’m ...

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Rand al'Thor

9:44 AM

@Tsundoku The timeline shows (to mods) that one close vote was cleared by Community, which I assume means the voter retracted their vote (aging away shows differently in the timeline, and wouldn't happen so quickly anyway).

Tsundoku

10:02 AM

@Randal'Thor I managed to mess up the timeline completely ...

@NapoleonWilson He only steals your eyes if you don't want to sleep, so no big deal :-P

Tsundoku

10:22 AM

I have now written up an answer to 'Tag for Old English literature' that represents current practice.

Rand al'Thor

10:42 AM

Great, thank you!

(The recent discussion did refer briefly to that meta post, but only to mention that it wasn't very conclusive.)

Tsundoku

@Randal'Thor Ah, I have added that now.

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bobble

2:49 PM

@Randal'Thor 'twas I; once the quote attribution was edited in I got unsure whether it was okay or not

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Tsundoku

8:40 PM

Migrated from ELU to ELL:

Q: Middlemarch, meaning of a sentence in Chapter 2

The following are the last two paragraphs of the second chapters of Eliot's Middlemarch: He was not in the least jealous of the interest with which Dorothea had looked up at Mr. Casaubon: it never occurred to him that a girl to whom he was meditating an offer of marriage could care for a dried b...

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Tsundoku

10:10 PM

I have posted an edit to @Gallifreyan's Meta SE post about the Literature SE topic challenges. The post was slightly outdated ...

Eng Lit Learner

Q: Middlemarch, meaning of a sentence in Chapter 2

The following are the last two paragraphs of the second chapter of George Eliot's Middlemarch: He was not in the least jealous of the interest with which Dorothea had looked up at Mr. Casaubon: it never occurred to him that a girl to whom he was meditating an offer of marriage could care for a d...