The Reading Room

12:40 AM

[pokes goodreads] Telling Goodreads that you now own a book you'd already put on a list is... not easy.

(I just got Editing by Design and Neither Wolf nor Dog.)

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3:05 AM

The Anglo-Saxon Narrative Poetry Project.

user15026

@BESW Change the shelf?

"Owned" doesn't seem to be a normal shelf?

user15026

As in it's not one created by default, yeah, that's only to-read/currently-reading/read but you should still be able to move it, like I move things to an "abandoned" shelf when I, well, abandon them mid-read

user15026

At least I feel like that should work?

A J

4:17 AM

@Randal'Thor Congratulation for reaching 5k mark on M&TV.

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Q: Explanation of the line 'But you don't really care for music, do you' in "Hallelujah"

8:39 AM

In the first verse of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah", there are these lines: Now, I've heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this... I can't figure out what the But you don't really care for mus...

user61230

9:05 AM

@Mithrandir I'm not super happy with my answer to your question, but I think this might be a deceptively complicated question to answer.

Mind explaining the end a bit more? I don't quite get what you're trying to say there.

user61230

Hand shifted over on keyboard. touchtypeproblems

user61230

I'm not totally sure how to word it. There's a contrast between the song at the start and the song at the end - and it's not a simple one. But the dichotomy is there: rejection of the music, and then ending the song by "singing" the Song of Solomon.

user61230

But what that means is so heavily open to interpretation that I'm not sure it can be answered in an authoritative way. I'm trying to figure out how to balance "these are the relevant parts" against "this is the Correct Interpretation."

> This fickleness vanishes in the presence of... her, whoever that is

I though that was fairly obviously referring to Batsheva, but I could be wrong.

user61230

9:13 AM

It's definitely an allusion to Batsheva, but I'm not 100% sure it is Batsheva.

It also seems to mix the story up with Shimshon, which was on my list of questions to ask also...

user61230

I can see that connection.

user61230

It starts to step outside of my realm of knowledge, though. I'm not as well-versed in religious texts as I should be

Q: In what ways is The Left Hand of Darkness a feminist novel?

9:51 AM

Wikipedia defines feminism as seeking "to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social rights for women". It also calls The Left Hand of Darkness part of "feminist science fiction". [spoilers for the book follow] The science-fiction novel describes a culture in which...

ursula-le-guin the-left-hand-of-darkness feminisim

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11:59 AM

Can we undelete this, please?

literature.stackexchange.com/questions/2323/…

12:11 PM

@Gallifreyan have I ever mentioned that I don't like the roomba?

@Mithrandir Not that I remember :)

Thanks!

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Q: How many books has The Witcher series sold?

4:24 PM

I often hear/read people saying that "The Witcher" books became popular because of the games, but I don't believe that. Recently I heard an interview with the brazilian translator of the books (Tomasz Barcinski) where he said that The Witcher book franchise has sold over 5 million copies just i...

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Hamlet

4:44 PM

@Mithrandir great question!

@BESW oohhh, that's a really nice resource

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Feeds

6:20 PM

Wait... So how is a raven like a writing desk? https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/702/ #LewisCarroll

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Woo, it worked

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7:40 PM

Oh, @Hamlet, just wondering what the point of revision 7 was literature.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/732/revisions

Henry WH Hack v2.0

8:02 PM

Hi Again.

Hey

Henry WH Hack v2.0

How are things?

I'm sleeping. So everything is perfectly fine. You?

Henry WH Hack v2.0

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Hamlet

9:40 PM

@Mithrandir to make it very clear that the faq is not a good way to decide whether a question is on or off topic. It's purpose is only to explain the scope in very broad strokes.

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10:52 PM

Who wants to read a complete, self-contained 28pg comic that's like Aliens only with experimental stationery mascot… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/864934406791745536

Tweeted by samandfuzzy on May 17, 2017 at 8:03 PM

Jordan Peele and Misha Green Adapt Horror-Fantasy 'Lovecraft Country' for HBO http://bit.ly/2pMKqxA https://t.co/9gKzyWeomt

Tweeted by Colorlines on May 17, 2017 at 10:26 PM

11:10 PM

@BESW SOunds interesting :)

11:25 PM

Come on people, ask some questions!