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Bookworm
Bookworm
12:17 AM
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Q: Why does With Those We Love Alive ask the reader to draw sigils on their skin?

HamletWith Those We Love Alive is a work of interactive fiction published by Porpentine. You can read the work online. One of the unique features of the work is it asks the reader to draw sigils on their arm at very moments during the story. Here is one example of such an instruction: Draw a sigil...

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Hamlet
Hamlet
@Bookworm dun dun dun
 
 
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Shokhet
Shokhet
1:46 AM
@Emrakul I'm still midway through, but yeah the only question I have in mind right now is one on art style.
I hope we don't both ask the same question :p
@Catija :]
 
Catija
Catija
2:17 AM
@Shokhet :P
 
 
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user15026
5:49 AM
@Bookworm when I have time, I am going to interact with this work and see if I can come up with something. At the very least, maybe my feelings on why.
 
Librarian
Librarian
8:56 AM
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Q: What's our elevator pitch?

Rand al'ThorThroughout SE history (e.g. The Real Essential Questions of Every Beta), there's been a lot of talk about providing an "elevator pitch" for a site. What is the site about, what's its goal, how would you describe it to someone unfamiliar with it or SE. Imagine you’ve just gotten on an elevator...

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BESW
BESW
10:46 AM
 
 
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Hamlet
Hamlet
2:10 PM
@Librarian three blind mice stumbling in a room trying to find the light.
 
Hamlet
Hamlet
2:39 PM
@Emrakul I asked a question about interactive fiction (e.g. video games) and it did not spark an intense scope discussion.
Of course, I asked a question about a very textual video game. A question about a shooter might do worse
@Ash for some reason I assumed you would have already read/played this.
 
 
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Librarian
Librarian
5:20 PM
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Q: Should we be using comments as substitutes for answers?

HamletI've been noticing that this site has been using comments as substitutes for answers in quite a few questions. Examples: 1, 2. I've probably done this a few times myself. I think one explanation that I've seen is that the person commenting doesn't have time to do research and write a detailed, ...

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Bookworm
Bookworm
5:35 PM
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Q: Why does "Ode to Joy"/Beethoven's Symphony #9 start with a reference to Greek mythology and only mention God towards the end?

EJoshuaSThe text of Beethoven's 9th Symphony was largely "borrowed" from the poem "Ode to Joy" by Friedrich Schiller. The text of the first verse of the poem (second verse of Beethoven's 9th symphony) is as follows (translation from Wikipedia): Joy, beautiful spark of divinity, Daughter from Elysi...

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Bookworm
Bookworm
5:53 PM
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Q: What's the significance of the T. S. Eliot reference in Catch-22?

EJoshuaS "It takes brains not to make money," Colonel Cargill wrote in one of the homiletic memoranda he regularly prepared for circulation over General Peckem's signature. "Any fool can make money these days and most of them do. But what about people with talent and brains? Name, for example, one poet...

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Q: Is there a contrast between Trofimov and Lopakhin in Anton Chekhov's 'The Cherry Orchard"?

JeminI am an intern who is teaching in high school in India. In the syllabus, I got across Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" in Hindi. After discussing the book with the students, I found out that there were two groups in the discussion. A group supporting Trofimov and the main character, well othe...

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Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
8:10 PM
Someone's got to announce the next topic challenge so people can start getting it. Judging by the fact that there are 2 copies in my university library, seems like accessing the book isn't hard.
@Hamlet, maybe?
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
A Grain of Wheat, looks like
I've got a couple minutes, I can copy-paste
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
8:22 PM
@Gallifreyan done
 
Librarian
Librarian
9:15 PM
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Q: Announcing the October 2017 Topic Challenge: "A Grain of Wheat", by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

MithrandirIn accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry as September nears its end, it's time to announce the next topic challenge! Throughout October 2017, our topic challenge, proposed by Hamlet, will be A Grain of ...

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BESW
BESW
Five spectacular writers houses you can visit: http://bit.ly/2xyPjuS @_houseandgarden https://t.co/uxqHLiGpGY
Tweeted by penguinrandom on September 26, 2017 at 3:16 PM
 
BESW
BESW
9:51 PM
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
10:45 PM
@Hamlet Not sure why you deleted your answer there, but I was actually thinking of asking you to hold off on answering for a while. Like I said, I'd like to get as many different answers as possible, and some people might be less likely to post one if they see an existing answer from a mod, especially one who's known to have strong opinions.
 
BESW
BESW
11:02 PM
@Hamlet Randian narrative in Bioshock?
 

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