On Wikipedia page, the author is unknown, on the website it's said the authors include universe beings (such as archangels, chief of Seraphim, etc.),
However somebody had to write a book. Are there any theories or predictions who did it?
I know we're all curious, but maybe making things less rapid-fire can help everyone see more of the site at once. I spent 10 minutes on an answer and then half-a-dozen questions arrived.
@NapoleonWilson Wait a bit before asking another question.
Most of the answers there I've downvoted because they just googled an analysis of the poem and copy-pasted it in, with a source link. It's the barest minimum effort possible.
@Emrakul There should not be more quote than original text, I feel. I suppose I'm already guilty of that once, but that was tying together many separate quotes to come to some independent conclusion.
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@HDE226868 Yeah, I agree. I think we're going to have to watch out for that becoming a systemic problem, too. It's all too easy to just look something up and re-post it.
@HDE226868 The upside of a glut of questions on first day is, people who come here looking to answer, have lots of options - hopefully, for a while - and thus don't quickly lose interest, twiddling thumbs waiting for interesting things to answer
@Emrakul Comment and downvote. Full broadside. And post on meta about downvotes being GOOD.
Proposal: Speculative Science
Recently in yet another discussion about too broad scope of this topic, I saw moderator's opinion talking that adding science qualification to topic is not enough for creating acceptable bounds to topic's scope. He argued this with fact that science word could have ...
@DVK-in-Florida The "Light Brigade" one. It's admittedly a little short, and people have a tendency to interpret that as homework (and a disdain of that, as grown from the more technical sites). But it's a totally fine analysis question.
@NapoleonWilson I'm a lil disappointed with current answers, I was hoping for a bit more in-depth analysis (they aren't bad, just not as excellent as I'd have hoped given the topic)
In the Harry Potter series, there is platform 9 ¾ in Kings Cross Station. You travel through this place to go to a magical place.
In The Secret of Platform 13, by Eva Ibbotson, (which is older than Harry Potter) the Gump is a magical thing that you go through to a magical place, located in King...
@Mithrandir I temporariliy refuse to answer Harry Potter questions. Mostly, afraid to get sucked in too deeply. I'll cover them if existing resident experts leave any holes.
I still think of DVK, Sly, and Alex as the top HP people around, but of course plenty of other people (present company included) do really good answers there too.
In the Fantastic Beasts Character Guide, there's a section that contains most of the animals that were shown in the movie. However, curiously, the Obscurial is missing from the book, despite its importance to the story of the movie.
Why was the Obscurial omitted from the character guide?
@NapoleonWilson imho i think the lyrics of a song could be ok, but a movie question should have to be about either a PUBLISHED script of the movie, or a book based off the movie. the movie itself is off-topic
@NapoleonWilson I answered with a nitpick, it got downvotes, I deleted because they edited, I undeleted it and edited it with a new answer, I rollbacked and deleted, and posted a new answer on his advice.
Inspired by this question.
In many translated works (the first to come to mind are translations by Richard Pevear and the English versions of Isaac Bashevis Singer's writings) there are elements of the original language which is kept, while the bulk of the text is rendered into translation. Why ...
It seems such "companion books" are largely non-fiction and don't tell an actual story. I doubt a pop-science book on gravitation would be on-topic, just because it has the word "Interstellar" in the title.
What's really frustrating to me so far is that I've read very few of the books people are asking questions about :( Anyone else experience this as well?
@Benjamin I don't even know that we need a special room for them... there's no reason to shove everyone into a secondary room when the main room is here... it's on topic.
@fi12 Let me try to dig up a post about why I regret proposing that. I will say, though, that on a site like this, it could go more like Mythology's Myth o' the Month.
In the long poem by Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the mariner talks about an albatross being chained to his neck:
Instead of the cross, the albatross
About my neck was hung.
This doesn't really make much sense though. Assuming it was literal, who chained the dead bird to hi...