In Jean Thompson's novel, The Poet's House, towards the end, the heroine, Carla, is looking for some missing papers: She finds them after having a conversation with Viridian's son, where he unknowingly gives her a clue. This clue is alluded to by the text, but it isn't explicitly spelled out. Wh...

I was reading about the De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum (The vanity of arts and sciences) By Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. This book contradicts another work of the same author De Occulta Philosophia (On Occult Philosophy). This contradiction between the works is solved (implicitly) in Wik...

In the poem "Crowcolour", the shortest of Ted Hughes' Crow poems, there's a series of comparisons of Crow's blackness with other black images. Here's the full poem: Crow was so much blacker Than the moon's shadow He had stars. He was much blacker Than any negro As a negro's eye-pupil. Even, lik...

You see the book was about a girl who got invited to a space program. She and a few other teens I believe went to space and somehow got powers. I don’t remember all of the abilities. Though I do remember one of the teens having super strength and having to eat a lot of more food to sustain her st...