Anne Frank writes: I have a throng of admirers who can't keep their adoring eyes off me and who sometimes have to resort to using a broken mirror to try and catch a glimpse of me in the classroom So, is Anne Frank some kind of a celebrity at school?

Warning: MASSIVE spoilers ahead. If you haven't read the last Harry Potter book, but plan to do so, turn back now Throughout the entire Harry Potter series, there was one character who was the comic 'bad guy' - designed to be disliked. This of course is Snape. We think that he is a Death Eat...

I've been reading the poem "A German Requiem" https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-german-requiem/, and found a few lines hard to understand. Below are my questions. 1. What is the connection between the last two lines from the first stanza? I think there must be some connection between the tw...

In Act III Scene 2 of Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Portia : One half of me is yours, the other half yours. Mine own, I would say; but if mine then yours. Roughly translated it means One half of me is yours, and the other half—my own half, I’d call it—belongs to yo...

It seems that Earth has very little trouble placing its people into extremely high positions all over in a variety of countries and societies, despite not having mind control technology - or for that matter, much of any useful technology for infiltration (they can't spy remotely, for example, req...

In The Phantom Tollbooth, basically every name has a significance/pun. For example, Dr. Dischord - his name is 'Discord' with 'chord' - implying bad sounds. Or the DYNNE, or 'din'. And Chroma, with his colors. I even managed to figure out something for King Azaz (the wordy king) - it's from A to...

Here we come a-wassailing is a traditional Christmas tune but it has almost no mention of the traditional Christmas subjects. The only one I can see in the entire version printed in Wikipedia is in a verse I've never heard before myself: Bring us out a table And spread it with a cloth; Br...

In The Long Earth, when the bomb was about to go off in Datum Madison, people were fleeing by means of stepping. And the stepping began. Parents carried their children, and went back for their own old folk, and their elderly neighbours. In care homes, some bewildered senior citizens had ...

When Bassanio is about to make his choice of the three caskets at Belmont - a choice upon which rests his chances of marriage to Portia - she calls for music and singing while he ponders. Music, whilst BASSANIO comments on the caskets to himself SONG. Tell me where is fancy bred, Or ...

In conversation with Doctor Budakh - and later Arata, Rumata (Anton) basically states the Earth's - and his personal - party line about non-interference with foreign cultures: — Что ж, — сказал он, — извольте. Я сказал бы всемогущему: «Создатель, я не знаю твоих планов, может быть, ты и не со...

There was a curious essay at some point on Russian interwebz, that asserted that Boris Strugatsky was wrong in stating (in an interview) that and instead was supposed to be taken hostage by Don Reba. The death was an accident from under-whelming underlings sent to kidnap her, coupled with Rum...

I've been trying to find this one for several years but somehow Google-fu was weak. Pretty old - I think I read it in early/mid 90s. Internet-published. Apocryphal mishmash of entire Noon universe Very specific plot detail that can serve as litmus test remains in my memory - they had some sort ...