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bobble
bobble
3:30 AM
I finished writing my question :) I decided to include my (vauge) idea of why they have similar names, backed up with some quotes. I'll ping someone when my morning comes around, right before I post, to ask for the proper tags to be added.
 
 
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Mithical
Mithical
8:07 AM
I spy a bobble outside of the Lair :O
 
 
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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
10:17 AM
 
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
10:56 AM
^ Sylvia Beach, who ran the bookstore a hundred years ago, published James Joyce's Ulysses in 1922, which is one reason why it deserves the description "legendary".
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell: novel inspired by the son of a playwright from Stratford. (Stratford-upon-Avon, not Stratford in Ontario or Connecticut.)
 
b_jonas
b_jonas
11:46 AM
@bobble Aww. You could just post it and whatever high rep user sees it can edit the tags in. The tags don't have to be created in advance.
Creating tags only needs 150 rep on a beta site, so there'll always be someone around who can create it.
Or you could have asked us to create the tags before you finish the question. Oh well, it's too late now.
 
 
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Bookworm
Bookworm
1:28 PM
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Q: To whom "cheery and sceptical" refer in "The Just Men of Cordova"?

Ahmed SamirIn chapter 12 of The Just Men of Cordova (1917) by Edgar Wallace, the author was describing a crowd in a horse racing: There were regular followers of the game who had known no holiday, and had followed the jumping season with religious attention. There were rich men and comparatively poor men; l...

edgar-wallace
 
 
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Bookworm
Bookworm
3:56 PM
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Q: Why are there two characters named "Rose" in Rose Under Fire?

bobbleTwo major characters in Rose Under Fire (by Elizabeth Wein) have names that mean the same thing. One is named Róża ("Rose" in her native language) and the other Rose. As far as I can remember, this is brought up a few times, but only used as banter. One theory that I have as to why they share a n...

name-significance
 
bobble
bobble
Thanks Tsundoku!
 
 
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bobble
bobble
6:19 PM
Hey, I have enough rep to create tags now :)
 
Bookworm
Bookworm
6:49 PM
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Q: Authenticity of an anecdote about Flaubert unintentionally attracting a crowd by reading his draft aloud near an open window

TsundokuOne of my teachers of French once told an anecdote about Gustave Flaubert in class. I'm not certain I remember all the details correctly, so what follows is how I remember, or possibly misremember after more than 25 years, the story. Flaubert was staying in (presumably) a hotel and was writing or...

french-literature gustave-flaubert
 
 
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Mithical
Mithical
8:10 PM
@matt in the middle but there are breaks every now and then
 
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
8:26 PM
Gareth Rees is currently five answers behind Rand al'Thor. Am I the only one who thinks that Gareth will overtake Rand al'Thor in answer count before the end of the year? (Or should that be the end of this month?)
 

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