The text editor on this site has a code block button. There are very few reasons for posting code on a site about literature--I suppose it might be warranted for answers to questions about the digital humanities, but that would be about it.
At the moment, code blocks are being used relatively fr...
I was first introduced to the works of Dostoevsky when I was 14 and I had not the years to understand what I read of them. Yet, I had developed great admiration for him, and a caricature of his ideas. I do remember fragments -- anecdotes, monologues, situations, characters and their idiosyncrasie...
In Lord of the Flies, "...Piggy was an outsider, not by accent, which did not matter, but by fat, and ass-mar, and specs, and a certain disinclination for manual labor." My understanding has always been that England is an intensely accent-conscious society, because accent is a class marker, and t...
The text doesn't directly answer this, so this more of a question about the "world" of Atlas Shrugged than about the text itself, but I'm curious as to how the Strikers would go about rebuilding the world after the Strike.
The text is very clear that part of Ragnar Danneskjöld's purpose in captu...
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604) was a courtier who wrote a number of love poems. Several of his poems appeared in print in a number of anthologies and miscellanies (according to Wikipedia), e.g. in The Paradise of Dainty Devises (1576), The Phoenix Nest (1593), England's Helicon (...
