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Q: What does, "‘Much of that!’ said he, glancing about him over the cold wet flat. ‘I wish I was a frog. Or a eel!'" mean?

Yosef ZaghiIt says in Great Expectations, ‘Much of that!’ said he, glancing about him over the cold wet flat. ‘I wish I was a frog. Or a eel!’ What does this mean/imply?

 
 
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12:03 PM
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Q: What do these two segments mean in Milton's "On Shakespeare"

J. WuI find two amphibolous segments in Milton's poem "On Shakespeare" when translating into Chinese, and thus need some help. In first stanza What needs my Shakespeare for his honored bones, The labor of an Age, in piled stones Or that his hallow'd Reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing Pyr...

 
 
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1:20 PM
@Bookworm First occurrence of the word "amphibolous" on our site. Please don't edit it out :-)
 
1:31 PM
Since Meta SE wanted feedback by today about (un)pinning accepted answers, I have posted an answer as feedback.
Should I lock our meta question now?
 
2:17 PM
Why not turn accepting answers into a privilege that requires a certain amount of reps (e.g. 125, as for the downvote privilege)? See my suggestions on French SE.
 
 
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3:46 PM
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Q: What does, "She concluded by throwing me - I often served as a connubial missile - at Joe..." mean?

Yosef ZaghiIt says in Great Expectations, She concluded by throwing me - I often served as a connubial missile - at Joe, who, glad to get hold of me on any terms, passed me on into the chimney and quietly fenced me up there with his great leg. What does this mean/imply?

 
 
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6:53 PM
So now all questions about have been answered. Well, I mean "both".
@Randal'Thor Even I had heard of that other Bourbaki.
 
7:20 PM
I wonder whether one of Milton Jones's pirate grandfathers robbed a cargo ship that was transporting Hawaii shirts.
 
@Tsundoku That's a nice word.
@Tsundoku I doubt that suggestion would ever fly. Even the newest of OPs, in most situations, can judge when their own problem has been solved. Especially on a site like SO where the problem is solved if the code works, you don't need any expertise to judge that.
 
8:18 PM
@Bookworm HNQ.
@Randal'Thor The claim that no expertise is needed does not transfer very well from SO to Literature SE. Witness What is the meaning of "Georgian Verse"? where the highest-voted (though admittedly not accepted) answer is dead wrong.
 
@Bookworm Also HNQ (13 hours after being asked).
@Tsundoku Unfortunately, but realistically, I would guess that, even if SE is now willing to give individual network sites the choice of whether or not to buy in to a policy originally created for SO, they're probably less likely to spend any dev time at all on creating features that would only be useful on non-SO sites.
 
8:40 PM
Should even be a tag? It does not seem to be a collection published by Premchand but a translation of a selection of stories chosen by someone else.
 
Probably not; we could mod-merge it into to save manual editing.
Some or all of those questions might want too.
 
 
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10:57 PM
> I've just been offered a new job teaching creative writing in a prison. I told them I need to take a while to think about the prose and cons.
 
11:19 PM
Not an answer after all?
 
11:47 PM
@Tsundoku We already have a privilege for that: literature.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-up
 
@Alex ? Voting up is something else that accepting an answer?
> I was bored when they buried my mother.
I told my girl I didn’t love her.
Then I shot at some guy,
And was sentenced to die,
Which I don’t find to cause me much bother.
Should be easy to guess that literary work the above alludes to. (Quote from Famous Poems Rewritten as Limericks)
 

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