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Bookworm

00:35

Is there is any professional English translation of "I will not see the famous Phaedra" (Я не увижу знаменитой «Федры») by Osip Mandelstam. Can anyone provide a link where it can be found.

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Prince North Læraðr

03:23

I'm going to cry

Biblical Hermeneutic's tagging system is... quite interesting

I realized that other SEs may or may not care about their tags very much

in The Library, 27 mins ago, by curiousdannii

@PrinceNorthLæraðr I'd summarise it as: 1) tag the book of the Bible 2) tag a translation if that's relevant, or greek/hebrew 3) tag an approach to interpretation (source/textual-criticism/historical/etc) 4) add anything else you think is relevant and that might help you find other related questions

I'm not trying to shade anyone or anything, but "add anything else you think is relevant and that might help you find other related questions?"

Majority of their tags are blank and I have zero clues on what to write for the excerpts

cries

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Knight

06:09

Recommend me some poems by W.B. Yeats in which he mentions Maud Gonne quite clearly. I would prefer some long poem by him (long in comparison with his other short poems like "Do not love for too long", and long as "A prayer for my daughter")

@EddieKal ^^^

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Bookworm

07:15

Q: What is the message of Macbeth in terms of masculinity?

In class we talked about the inverse of gender roles in Macbeth. The only way for Lady Macbeth to gain power is through Macbeth using her rhetoric. But what about Macbeth? Do you think that the tragedy of Macbeth is the consequence of Macbeth is being too sensitive to masculinity? What does Mascu...

macbeth

Rand al'Thor

07:49

@PrinceNorthLæraðr Puzzling is another site that's not very strict on tagging. Even basic things like removing riddle from things that aren't riddles at all (in the PSE sense of "riddle", not where every puzzle is a riddle) seems to be basically a one-man job of me keeping an eye on things.

Tsundoku

08:49

@PrinceNorthLæraðr Don't cry, Prince of Trees. Take pride in the work you've done here.

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Bookworm

11:01

Q: Poem about a joker with disorganized attire

I remember from my childhood a English poem about a joker with disorganized attire. He has worn a cooking pan as hat, (probably) socks as gloves and he's travelling in a train and leaves his station behind. I guess, This poem must be at least 15-20 (or more) years old. Please tell me name of the ...

story-identification poetry

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Prince North Læraðr

13:49

@Randal'Thor Yeah, but at BHSE, there's like zero organization there. I don't even think it's worth my time to tag stuff there, but we'll see

I thought that BHSE was a beta site until I saw that it was literally 9 years old

Rand al'Thor

14:18

@PrinceNorthLæraðr It is a beta site, isn't it?

Prince North Læraðr

@Randal'Thor No, it's not

I only literally found out after I couldn't find the Area 52 page

(It acts like a Beta site IMO though)

Rand al'Thor

Oh, it just graduated in the recent "graduate all the old sites" thing.

Doesn't have a design or (yet) elected moderators, so it still looks like a beta site.

Biblical Hermeneutics – hermeneutics.stackexchange.com

Launched Q&A site for professors, theologians, and those interested in exegetical analysis of biblical texts.

Prince North Læraðr

I see

How does one get a site design?

Rand al'Thor

Wait for the SE design team to get around to it.

Wait years and years, in some cases.

Back when there were fewer sites, everything used to happen together: graduation, site design, first election, higher privilege levels.

I think Puzzling was the last site to get a full site design.

Prince North Læraðr

Ooooh

@Randal'Thor Wait no, I think it was Code Golf

Because I remember when Code Golf graduated

Rand al'Thor

14:24

Then after they kind of undesigned all the sites (or made the designs more vanilla and less unique), they gave new "designs" to a few others like PPCG and A&M.

@PrinceNorthLæraðr ^ it graduated years before getting the (semi)design

Prince North Læraðr

@Randal'Thor Oh I see

Why do you say semi?

Rand al'Thor

Graduated in 2016, design in 2019.

@PrinceNorthLæraðr Semi because different sites used to have full designs with a lot more customised stuff; now it's not much more than a logo and a different colour scheme.

Prince North Læraðr

@Randal'Thor Oh, I see

Ah, looking at other sites, I see what you mean

Merlin -they-them-

Does StackExchange have a site where I could ask about how to clean an old book of a little mold and stains?
This seems the closest even though I know it's not the right spot

Prince North Læraðr

Yup!

Tsundoku wrote a question on how to properly iron a book mark thingy

(let me find it)

Q: At what temperature can I safely iron the fabric bookmarks in the volumes of the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade?

I recently acquired a volume from the famous Bibliothèque de la Pléiade from an antiquarian bookseller. These volumes always have two fabric bookmarks and as you can see from the image below, the bookmarks in this volume are creased. I would like to iron the bookmarks but I have no idea what typ...

physical-books

@Merlin-they-them- You can ask it here

Prince North Læraðr

14:44

@Tsundoku Are you planning to follow the Dutch Language proposal on Area 52?

area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/124544/…

Tsundoku

@PrinceNorthLæraðr I am following it. It's at least the fourth Dutch language proposal I have followed. All the previous ones have failed.

Prince North Læraðr

@Tsundoku Oh, I didn't know :P

Why?

Tsundoku

Not enough questions, not enough followers, not enough questions with 10+ votes, etc.

Prince North Læraðr

Should I follow it even though I have zero background in Dutch?

Tsundoku

So there was one that started in December 2015, one in December 2016, on in early in early 2018, one in 2019, so this is the fifth Dutch language proposal I am aware of. They may have been other ones before 2015, though.

@PrinceNorthLæraðr That's entirely up to you. But artificially inflating a proposal like that won't guarantee that it won't fall flat in a later phase...

Prince North Læraðr

14:48

Yeah...

Tsundoku

The person who started the proposal is relatively new to SE and is not actively promoting or guiding it. That's not a good sign.

Prince North Læraðr

Tsundoku

Well, it helps if the originator of the proposal has a clear vision of what the site should be like (especially its scope) and actively contributes to the questions being asked about it. But in this case, it's not even "leading from behind", it's just not caring about the proposal once it's out there.

Merlin -they-them-

@PrinceNorthLæraðr thanks! I've just asked about it here. Please let me know if there's any edits I should make to improve the question and make it more appropriate to this StackExchange site.
https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/16036/how-can-i-clean-a-book-and-remove-mold-stains

Prince North Læraðr

@Merlin-they-them- No problem! The question looks solid, IMO... though that mold stain also looks pretty solid :P

Merlin -they-them-

14:57

Yeah that's kind of what I feared. If I can clean it, I'd like to. But if not, I'd at least like to prevent the mold (if it is mold) from spreading.

Prince North Læraðr

I have zero clue on how to clean books, but I think it's a good question for other people to reference in the future

Bookworm

15:11

Q: How can I clean a book and remove mold / stains?

I have a book from 1989 that I inherited recently. The cover and some of the pages have these dark stains and/or mold. It does not seem to have a bad odor (as far as I can tell). Is it possible to clean this book to remove the stains/mold? If so, how can I clean this as DIY at home? How can I pr...

physical-books

Tsundoku

@Merlin-they-them- Whether it's worth paying a professional for cleaning the book depends on the book's value. Is the book worth more than, say, one working hour?

Bookworm

15:37

Q: Meaning of "Chaos" spoken by Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)?

In Shakespeare's King Henry 6 part 3, we are truly introduced to that devilishly delightful Richard for the first time by means of his first and longest soliloquy wherein he introduces to the audience what he wants, why he wants it, and how he plans to get it (it being the English Crown of course...

meaning william-shakespeare henry-vi-part-iii

Eddie Kal

16:08

@Knight Off the top of my head I can't think of any long poems. The most well-known reference to Gonne, as you probably know, is found in Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven. But it is pretty short and I have mostly read short Yeats poems.

Napoleon Wilson

16:46

@Tsundoku That seems to depend on what a working hour is.

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Knight

17:57

@EddieKal Okay. Did Yeats get Nobel for a one single work (like Rabindranath Tagore) or for overall works (like TS Eliot)?

Bookworm

18:11

Q: Story about two men walking through the forest

This is a story (fable) that I remember reading or hearing when I was young (UK, probably between 2000-2010). It felt more like a fable than a story written then. The part I remember is of two men who were going for a long journey. This journey would take them through a large forest and based on ...

story-identification

Tsundoku

18:35

@Knight 'The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 was awarded to William Butler Yeats "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation."' (Nobelprize.org)

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Bookworm

21:08

Q: Chivalry by Neil Gaiman

Which of the following elements of “Chivalry” by Neil Gaiman best aligns with the fantasy genre? a)The description of unusual objects. b) the appearance of magical elements. c) A plot with a bizarre conflict.