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Bookworm

02:50

What are some of the differences and similarities between the book "The South" and the movie? The book is about Juan Dahlmann with his accident. I know that the cat is in different places, that the accidents are different, and there is a fight in the movie. But does anyone know any other differen...

short-stories

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Gallifreyan

11:09

@Mithrandir You're Feeds?

I noticed we have adaptation-comparison and adaptations, and I'm not entirely sure what the distinction is and whether we need both, because, at least currently, the usage guidance for both is more or less the same

> Questions about adaptations of works of literature to a different medium or a different literary genre, or adaptations of works in other media (e.g. film) as works of literature.

> Questions related to adaptations of literary works. Adaptations can be other works of literature, or works in other media, such as film or song.

^ respectively

Mithrandir

12:08

@Gallifreyan heh

No, I forgot that I was signed into the StackLiterature account on Twitter, and retweeted that... causing it to show up here.

@Gallifreyan Those can probably be merged.

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Christophe Strobbe

14:35

@Gallifreyan One might wish to distinguish between questions about a specific adaptation (adaptations) and questions that compare specific adaptations (typically of the same work; adaptation-comparison). I have not checked whether the current question use the tags in this way.

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Bookworm

16:41

Q: Why do Poles like dachshunds so much?

I read somewhere that Poles like dachshunds a lot. I was wondering if that was true or if I could get more background info on it.

the-two-cultures

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Gallifreyan

18:14

@ChristopheStrobbe the former tag has only two questions, and the second can freely be changed to the latter tag, imho: literature.stackexchange.com/questions/3463/…

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Bookworm

19:29

Q: Please explain the following opening lines of Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "Riot"

John Cabot, out of Wilma, once a Wycliffe, all whitebluerose below his golden hair, wrapped richly in right linen and right wool, almost forgot his Jaguar and Lake Bluff; Here's the full poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51835/riot