Louis MacNeice's poem "The Gardener" (1939) contains the lines:
He would talk to amuse the children,
Or the robin waiting for worms
Perched on the handle of the spade;
Would remember snatches of verse
From the elementary school
About a bee and a wasp
Or the cat by the barndoor spinning;
And woul...
I'm trying to find a quote that asserts something along the lines of a poor white American family will be happy to live in a cardboard box under a bridge as long as there is a black family without the cardboard box beneath them.
I have it in my head that was originally said by either Upton Sincla...
In the famous poem Richard Cory by E.A. Robinson, given below are the lines of my interest
So on we worked, and waited for the LIGHT,
And went without the MEAT, and cursed the BREAD
capitalisation mine
I'm trying to critically analyse this poem and paused at the lines above
Do the lines (with t...
From John Le Carré's Smiley's People:
“Vladimir’s father was an Estonian and a passionate Bolshevik, Oliver,” he resumed in a calmer voice. “A professional man, a lawyer. Stalin rewarded his loyalty by murdering him in the purges. Vladimir was born Voldemar but he even changed his name to Vladim...
From John Le Carré's Smiley's People:
Stalin rewarded his loyalty by murdering him in the purges. Vladimir was born Voldemar but he even changed his name to Vladimir out of allegiance to Moscow and the Revolution. He still wanted to believe, despite what they had done to his father. He joined th...
Big news (from a certain point of view) for Lit SE. Even though Area 51 stats are no longer updated, our "percent answered" is now 1 - 1399/6856 which is 80% and therefore officially "Okay" rather than "Needs Work"!
@verbose Thanks for posting the best-of and for nagging about topic-challenges. See, you should've been a mod here :-)
@Randal'Thor - it's funny. Lit hasn't really fulfilled many of the Area 51 criteria, but it's still the healthiest of all the SE's I'm on. Probably because of long-term users like you and verbose! (And others.)
@Randal'Thor Maybe verbose isn't really into modular arithmetic.
At school, calculus tested the limits of my maths aptitude. And when people start talking about Galois, my head starts to ring. But I have taken the rational decision to integrate some maths study into my daily routine. I hope to derive some benefits from it.
To sum it up, I'm going to tear out the roots of my maths anxiety because it doesn't square with my curiosity.
I was hoping that by multiplying bad maths jokes, I would end up with powerfully good one, but maybe they are just odd?
In the famous poem Richard Cory by E.A. Robinson, given below are the lines of my interest
So on we worked, and waited for the LIGHT,
And went without the MEAT, and cursed the BREAD
capitalisation mine
I'm trying to critically analyse this poem and paused at the lines above
Do the lines (with t...
