In Jane Austen's Persuasion, when Anne Elliot is getting a ride with Mrs. and Admiral Croft, she makes this observation about the Crofts' way of driving, and that is may represent a more general aspect of their life: 'Very good humoured, unaffected girld, indeed,' said Mrs. Croft, in a tone of c...

In the last chapter of Dune, there's this paragraph: As Stilgar turned to obey, Paul heard the awed muttering of Fremen guards: 'You see? He knew! No one told him, but he knew!' What are the guards talking about here? What does Paul know that hasn't been told to him? The preceding paragraph is:...

I recently listened to someone reading a text (possibly greek or Latin, but they were reading a translation of it) on the topic of love. The gist of it was that a part of love is desiring to cause pain to the loved one - not only physical pain, even if in one passage it was even used as an exampl...