One weekend evening in late 2010, I heard a short story on British radio (probably BBC Radio 4) whose main characters were two women (I think Scottish?), one of them the first-person narrator. The story went as follows. Since I don't remember their names at all, I'm going to use A and B to refer ...
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Is there any way to imply from Shakespeare's text that Othello had an impostor syndrome?
Logically, since he was much more successful than other men with a similar background, he could have had it.
And, if he had it, it could have made him more vulnerable to Iago's lies.
Is there any evidence in ...
The Wikipedia article about Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighth-Four contains the following statement:
During World War II, Orwell believed that British democracy as it existed before 1939 would not survive the war. The question being "Would it end via Fascist coup d'état from above or via Socialist ...
I came across a couplet today in Ben Jonson's verse letter 'An Epistle to Lady Rutland' which I'm still trying to understand:
How many equal with the Argive queen,
Have beauty known, yet none so famous seen?
Who was this Argive queen? In history and mythology, the city of Argos had many queens,...
In the first section of his short story "The Lottery in Babylon", Borges writes:
I have known that thing the Greeks knew not -- uncertainty.
As far as I know, there was nothing specific that Babylonians knew about randomness, chance, or probability of which ancient Greeks were not aware. This g...