so there's this book I read a long time ago about a stuffed cat and a stuffed dog who get hungry when their owner leaves and eat eachother. like, they rip eachother appart until they are each just a rag... they looked like this it's really dumb, but it's bothering me so much that I don't know...

Maybe I missed something in the book, but the way the good guys and Beautrelet just get to stumble upon that very importance piece of information feels weird to me. I mean, it's a legit, massive secret paper that have been around and hidden for centuries and Brédoux or Lupin (or some of the Lupin...

I just learned from an answer to an ID question about the poem "The Duel", or "The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat", in which Eugene Field describes a vicious fight between two stuffed animals as told to him by a "Dutch clock" and a "Chinese plate". The repeated mention of countries, in this other...

Alain Bashung's song Sur un trapèze, with lyrics by Gaëtan Roussel (see the Wikipedia article about the album Bleu pétrole, released in 2008), contains the lines On dirait que sans les poings on est toujours aussi balèzes Et que les fenêtres nous apaisent Translation (if I understand the...

I was trying to read the following excerpt from On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in Society by Thomas Carlyle, and I had a few questions. (The emboldening is mine; bolded phrases or words in a passage are followed by a question referring to it.) It is well said, in every sense, that ...