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Q: All the Pretty Horses Alfonsa Quote Meaning

soupluvr15Question about this passage in McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, in which Alfonsa warns John Grady against his relationship with Alejandra by talking about her own youth: I had no one to advise me, you see. Perhaps I would not have listened anyway. I grew up in a world of men. I thought this wou...

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A strange series of questions from Arunabh last night (2 now deleted, and the last one essentially trivial). I know people use chat-GPT to try and answer questions, but is it now being used to ask them?
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@Randal'Thor So do I, when they're about specific texts. His more general questions tend to be hit-or-miss, including at least three I think ought to have been closed as either "unclear what you're asking" or "opinion-based."
 
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Q: What does "Rare" mean in this sentence from Christmas Carol

manu muraleedharanIn A Christmas Carol, Dickens describes a grocery shop with the phrase: "the raisins were so plentiful and rare." This seems contradictory because something cannot logically be both plentiful and rare simultaneously.

 
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Q: What does "whitewashing" mean in this paragraph from The Picture of Dorian Gray

m26aCould anyone explain what "whitewashing" mean in this sentence? There is hardly a single person in the House of Commons worth painting, though many of them would be the better for a little whitewashing.

 
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Q: Trying to find a book series about a main character who can see and manipulate "strings" in other people?

ShannonMy friend is trying to remember a book series he read in 2009-2013. Here is what he was able to recall: 6 books, 2 trilogies. First trilogy was set long after the fall of a technological civilization and characters were amazed by roads "straight as an arrow" that didn't decay. Second trilogy was...


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