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This is not a duplicate of Please don't red alert me for queues I've handled, because this reports different things from that question. That question is specifically about the case where the user has run out of daily reviews; this question reports different problems outlined in the below bullets....
After clicking on the review icon on the top bar when the red dot is showing, there is sometimes no red dot for any of the review queues. This happens frequently.
I suspect that this could be because I finished my daily low-quality and suggested-edit review quota, but these are in need of revi...
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This was one of those things that popped into my head earlier today, and I keep flashing back to it. I read this as a library book when I was in Ashland, KY, probably around the mid-90s. I think it was a paperback whose cover was primarily blue, with the girl depicted on the front, staring off to...
The Myrmidons, the soldiers from Achilles's homeland of Thessaly who are under his command in the Iliad, get their name from myrmex or ants. Achilles himself is the arch-Myrmidon. In Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Ulysses refers to him as:
the great Myrmidon,
who broils in loud ap...0
The second stanza of the poem Childhood, written by Markus Natten:
When did my childhood go?
Was it the time I realised that adults were not
all they seemed to be,
They talked of love and preached of love,
But did not act so lovingly,
Was that the day!
Source (Page 58)
What is the poet trying t...
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In In the Midst of Alarms (1894) by Robert Barr, someone was talking about a man who doesn't like attending protracted meetings for converting the sinners:
He never wants to go to a protracted meeting, yet he can’t keep away. He’s like a drunkard and the corner tavern. He can’t pass it, and he k...
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I am reading the Penguin Edition of the above title - also known as Beware of Pity in other translations. The reverse of the title page states that the book was first published in "Germany as Ungehuld des Herzens by S Fischer Verlag 1939". Why would one of Germany's leading publishers be publishi...
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear str...
After Hamlet returns from speaking with the Ghost, we resists inquisition about it, then suggests he will reveal what it said if the others can keep a secret,
"How say you then? Would heart of man once think it?" Hamlet Act 1 Scene 5
Would does this mean? I have read that one can translate it as "0
in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, 2 mins ago, by Babel fish
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In Thomas Hardy's short story "The Withered Arm" (freely available to read online), Gertrude Lodge and Rhona Brook go together to see a man named Trendle, often called Conjuror Trendle, who is reputed to have some knowledge or ability with magic. He's the one who tells Gertrude that her afflictio...
