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Q: Looking for my childhood book about a teddy who cant sleep

StarlightI am searching for a children's book I read in the late 90s about a teddy bear who sneaks around the bedroom when the boy is away or asleep and he plays with the toy soldier, ballerina and some other toys on the shelf but then he hears the boy r the mothercoming into the room so he gets back into...

 
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Q: Why does Chigurh not wear a seatbelt (based explicitly on the textual explanation) in No Country for Old Men?

GGMG-he-himIn No Country for Old Men, the description of Chigurh's traffic accident is given as: The car that hit Chigurh in the intersection three blocks from the house was a ten year old Buick that had run a stopsign. There were no skidmarks at the site and the vehicle had made no attempt to brake. Chigu...

 
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5:45 AM
@verbose Thanks for the suggestion. I thought that the title was clear enough, but I have further edited the last paragraph to emphasize the restriction of the question to the passage from Rushdie. But I fear that this is too late.
@GarethRees You're welcome. And thank you for all you do to retain interesting material on the site!
6:36 AM
@verbose If the experience of trying to appease the close-voters is frustrating for me, when I've been doing it for six years, it must be grim indeed for people new to the site!
Feb 14, 2019 at 18:17, by Gareth Rees
This is starting to feel like an adversarial situation, in which I am expected to keep editing the question until the close voters are satisfied, even though the question seems fine to me and I have only guesses about what the close voters might be having trouble with. It would feel more collegiate if the close voters were willing to muck in a bit too.
 
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8:42 AM
@Bookworm nice, I think that's a better question about the novel than the previous ones
 
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7:56 PM
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (German: Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh) is a 1933 novel by Austrian-Bohemian writer Franz Werfel based on events that took place in 1915, during the second year of World War I and at the beginning of the Armenian genocide. The novel focuses on the self-defense by a small community of Armenians living near Musa Dagh, a mountain in Vilayet of Aleppo in the Ottoman Empire—now in Hatay Province, part of southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast—as well the events in Constantinople (Istanbul) and provincial capitals, where the Young Turk government orchestrated th...
 
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11:08 PM
I'm out of planned questions, unfortunately, so it looks like I'll have to take a break for a day or two until I can plan out more...
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Q: "A set of Guatemalas" in Forster's Maurice?

oaklight37What does Forster mean by a "set of Guatemalas"? (From Chapter 1 of Maurice.) "Well, Hall, expecting a pi-jaw, eh?" "I don't know, sir—Mr Abrahams' given me one with 'Those Holy Fields'. Mrs Abrahams' given me sleeve-links. The fellows have given me a set of Guatemalas up to two dollars. Look, s...


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