Best book nobody has heard. Even YouTube has stifled and fuzzed it out. I sniffedat it first time in a bookstore but have sent copies to almost everyone I know:
I can't remember a particular story, and I would like to ask a story-id question to get help finding it. What can I do to make my story-id question a successful and high-quality one?
When answering, it would be helpful to include examples of good and bad story-id questions.
@Shokhet I know some twitter clients do link previews, but the tweet should still stand on its own and not require the question title in the preview to give me context, not if you want to attract eyes that aren't, well, already here in some form.
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Depending on people to search for context on their own and to pay attention to the preview is...not the best way to go about this, not if you actually want to attract outside views.
Beatrix Potter, illustrator and author, who was also a mycologist, creating many scientific studies of fungi… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/879946211578568704
> It is one of their customs to write in books what they have done and seen, instead of telling them in their villages, where the lie can be given to the face of a cowardly boaster, and the brave soldier can call on his comrades to witness for the truth of his words. In consequence of this bad fashion, a man, who is too conscientious to misspend his days among the women, in learning the names of black marks, may never hear of the deeds of his fathers, nor feel a pride in striving to outdo them.
(Mohicans is a fascinating study in what we might now call intersectionality, both in text and meta-text.)
It's a well-documented fact that the character of Superman has undergone many shifts over the decades.
In 1978, Elliot S! Maggin's first Superman novel The Last Son of Krypton was published. Now, you might be looking at that timeline (or the cover art from the book) and thinking to yourself "Oh,...
I spent an extensive amount of time as an undergrad writing about and researching The Hobbit, especially in terms of Tolkien's famous essay on Beowulf. Getting a sense of what inspired Tolkien greatly enhanced my understanding of and appreciation for The Hobbit.
Despite those efforts, I have yet...
I don't know how he managed to write papers about The Hobbit without reading LotR, though.
@Randal'Thor : thanks for that input, I was really hesistant to do so as I thought there was a consensus on the other order ^^ I just did post it (not very well written, and a bit 'wall of text' even though I feel there was so much more to say.. I may edit it later to make it better, but I don't have time right now) — Olivier Dulac35 secs ago
I honestly don't know all that much about building an SM presence; I meant to take a free course from Hootsuite (one of the scheduling services that @StackLit uses), but never found the time. I have my own Twitter account that has a fair amount of followers, but that kinda happened by accident. If you have any other tips to share, or would like to take part control of the StackLit account, please do let me know! :)
@doppelgreener @Randal'Thor Yes, that is what I thought.
Good job on getting out of an OS that is no longer supported by Windows :p
@Shokhet I'm honestly not sure what my settings are. I copied over a theme file from an older computer. Probably something even older than XP; I've had a lot of people exclaim over how "classic" and "retro" it looks.
@Randal'Thor OK, no offense to you, but the Icelandic Sagas challenge didn't get any engagement because it was an incredibly boring story for a modern audience, not because the topic challenge is flawed.
The Windows philosophy right now is that 10 is the last version of Windows -- the operating system as a service, not a product. From here on out, they'll just be updating 10 periodically.
I've edited your question in an attempt to make it a better fit for this site. Please check to ensure that I haven't changed it too much; if I have, you can always edit the question to fix it. Good luck! — Shokhet12 secs ago
@Shokhet Definitely. I may also post an answer of my own to the Q1 thread, if I can gather together enough good posts. But I'm a bit worried it may have too much self-promotion :-P
I also still need to read @Gallifreyan's answer to the story-ID quality question, and see if I have anything more to add.
@Shokhet I forgot to mention, @Ash, that as a moderator, you already have access to the control room, where you can send a tweet by starring a chat message.
@Justwinbaby When changes are made to the room, the software automatically posts a message. Those can be tweeted by starring them, so we remove them for safety reasons :)
I remember in middle school when everyone was reading LoTR, and there was this barrier when they get to Elrond's where some would abandon the book at that point because the council just goes on and on and on....
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens is set in England, and one of the characters is Madame Tracy, who makes he living by doing "occult" seances, either by using a crystal ball or a Tarot deck (which doesn't contain any Major Arcana because their sight was upsetting the clients). The foll...
Google has failed me. I am trying to recall a quote I read once, which goes something like this: "I have reached the mountain peak I saw in my youth, but it is not snow here; it is only salt." Meaning, I guess, that he had found the success he aspired to but it was not meaningful as he had believ...
The chorus of Imagine Dragons' "Thief" (from the deluxe version of the album Smoke + Mirrors), written by Clare Reynolds and Natalie Maree Dunn, goes like this:
So take me back
When I believed
Back when I was unafraid
Just like a thief
And all the heights
That I could reach
Back w...
As an Anglophile child growing up in Mexico (if not Peru) , these books still mean so much to me. Ave atque vale http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40432946
Gorgeous obit by Veronica Horwell. Paddington born in Bond's "memories of evacuee children in WW2, luggage-labelled… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/880079650139099136
In the first introductory chapter of his book Gravitation and cosmology: principles and applications of the general theory of relativity Steven Weinberg discusses the origin of non-euclidean geometries and the "inner properties" of surfaces.
He mentions that distances between all pairs of 4 poin...
Last year I ran a game in a spherical worldship with many onion-like layers, each a different habitat. But gravity was manipulated to orient away from the center, so that to get to the next-innermost layer one had to go through the sky of one's own layer and come up out the ground of the next one.
This meant, for each layer, the ground was concave and the sky was convex.
The "horizon" was where the ground curved up so high the sky blocked it.
@Hamlet What do you think of this question? I'm hoping for an answer based on a thorough close reading of the poem - which is quite short, making the task of close-reading it perhaps less daunting.
Wilfred Owen's poem "The Unreturning" (full text here) seems remarkably free of context - it never says explicitly what it's about, what's happening, which "dead" are being talked about, who or what are "unreturning", or what the point of the poem is. Therefore I'm hoping that this is a poem whic...