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Q: Russian children's book

Ana DyneThis is probably a Soviet-era children's book. It is about a boy's journey by train. As I remember it, not much happens plot-wise, but the boy's sense of wonder makes everything he encounters (The washbasin! This is how the door works! This is how they serve tea on the train!) seem marvelous. I t...

 
 
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Q: Looking for a short story about shifting priorities in life for a wedding newspaper

HansI hope you will be able to help me out here :) My best friend is marrying soon and it's a tradition in Germany for the friends to prepare a so called "wedding newspaper". This is some kind of magazine which is filled with pictures, articles, and stories of the engaged couple. The paper is then s...

 
 
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Q: Why did “the knocking at the gate” in Macbeth puzzle De Quincey?

BeatsMeIn Thomas De Quincey's 1823 essay "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth," why did “the knocking at the gate” puzzle De Quincey? Why does De Quincey point out, “a peculiar awfulness and depth of solemnity”? Here is the first paragraph: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexit...

 

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