In Patrick Rothfuss' The Kingkiller Chronicle, students at the University are asked to pay a variable amount for their tuition per term, based mostly on their performance in an interview in front of the entire head staff, and partly on their performance during the previous term. For example, a st...
In The Physics of the Dead by Luke Smitherd, when Hart is discovering the 'exit', the beast is happily dismembering Bowler.
Then we see that Hart is talking to Bowler and we discover that Bowler's broken body is next to the exit. Earlier on, the beast stated that he wasn't going to prevent Hart ...
It is a well-known fact that the author of Lord of the Flies William Golding was an officer in the Royal Navy, and that some of the sights he saw inspired him to write Lord of the Flies.
The boys are stranded on an island. All we know about this island is that there are a mountain, trees and a l...
An author just wrote a book. I ask the author what the book is about, and she says, "it's about how anyone, if they work hard enough, can lead a fulfilling life". There's nothing left to talk about; the author explained the meaning and the case is closed.
However, let's ask the author a differen...
One of Gilbert's more controversial librettos is Princess Ida, a story making fun of woman's education. I am asking this question in relation to how Princess Ida should be viewed as a text. If his opinions of learned women were positive, the libretto is probably simply a satire of something that ...
The former MI5 and MI6 agent David John Moore Cornwell used the name John le Carré on his numerous spy novels. Wikipedia explains why he had to write under a pseudonym:
he wrote the detective story A Murder of Quality (1962) and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), as "John le Carré" (le...
In the end of the third chapter of Lord of the Flies, Simon goes to his hideout. It is described as having a great mat of creepers and being screened off by a few leaves.
Later, when he is being hunted, Ralph hides in the bushes, behind "a wild tangle of creeper" forming a mat that kept out all...
We could split it up into sources (or maybe citation?) and allusions, which are unambiguous about which meaning of "references" they use. Of the four posts currently tagged references, I think three would fall under allusions:
Are there any debated authorship references in Thursday Next series?...
I recently noticed the passage in Wind in the Willows where Mole comes back to his old home contains this extraordinary quote.
On the walls hung wire baskets with ferns in them, alternating with
brackets carrying plaster statuary - Garibaldi, and the infant Samuel,
and Queen Victoria, and...
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Pointing out that thread's popularity is a direct result of programming community interest in said subject, and that someone likely stands to become rich and/or famous by solving the problem none of the answers, save my own, came even close to resolving.
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This nominee would be a good choice because they have proven themselves to be a good user, with a good grasp of the site's workings. Admittedly, they aren't that active in Meta, but that can always change ;)
They are fairly active on the main site, with over 1100 rep. They...
TL;DR: We did it, so... yes.
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Charcoal is the organization behind the SmokeDetector bot and other nice things. This bot scans new posts across the entire network for spam posts and reports them to various chatrooms where people can act on them. If a post has been created or edite...
Late in Toni Morrison's Love, Junior starts referring to her "Good Man":
And her Good Man agreed. As she knew from the beginning, he liked to see her win.
They recognized each other the very first night when he gazed at her from his portrait. But it was in dream they got acquainted. No ...
