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12:00 AM

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Tsundoku

@bobble It's not a question that asks to identify a work of fiction, just whether a specific character is based on a real person. historical-context is sufficient there, I think.

@bobble It's basically a motif that probably fits many stories, so it's probably not specific enough.

@Bookworm If this was a Maupassant story, I don't understand why I haven't found it by now ...

bobble

I have it on my "follow"-ing watchlist and plan to remove the author tag in case it turns out to be inapplicable. Not sure what the policy is for author tags on identification-request questions, especially if the author is not for-sure known.

@Tsundoku Rand added the tag and also led the effort to expand the meaning of identification-request, wasn't sure if he intended the tag to encompass requests for identifications such as this one

Tsundoku

@bobble I know, but I don't see anything in the tag description that justifies its use for that question.

bobble

I'll ping @Randal'Thor then - why did you add identification-request to the Barrett Emerson question?

Tsundoku

12:19 AM

@NewTopicChallengeSuggestion So I have once more failed to resist the temptation to post a new suggestion. (And I have a long list of other suggestions elsewhere. For example the Danish author Tove Ditlevsen, some of whose works have recently been translated into English and German.)

Rand al'Thor

12:36 AM

@bobble identification-request covers questions about identifying books, stories, authors, and (I thought) characters.

I don't feel strongly enough about it to argue the point though.

bobble

@Randal'Thor If that's the intent, perhaps the excerpt and/or wiki should be updated

Rand al'Thor

I actually thought that character-identification was already a synonym, but it's not - I was probably mixing it up with author-identification.

It could be argued that this is technically sort of an author-identification question, if Barrett Emerson was a contributor to Doctor Faustus, but I'm on somewhat shaky ground there.

bobble

One thing, for me, is that identification-request seems to assume that what you're asking about does indeed exist; that isn't the case here

Tsundoku

@Randal'Thor As far as we know, the character is fictional.

Rand al'Thor

@bobble Good point.

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Bookworm

1:43 PM

Q: Do "rain and elder bloom" signify anything in Hazel's last dream?

At the end of Watership Down, in the Epilogue covering just before this happens, he has a final dream which is something about "rain and elder bloom": One chilly, blustery morning in March, I cannot tell exactly how many springs later, Hazel was dozing and waking in his burrow. He had spent a g...

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@Randal'Thor hmmm..

Rand al'Thor

2:46 PM

@bobble Now fleshed out and posted.

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bobble

5:23 PM

Are there any tags which wicked should always be used with?

> For questions about the 2003 Broadway musical "Wicked", with music by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winne Holzman.

Mithical

The author tags, and song-lyrics if applicable

bobble

Both author tags?

Mithical

Pretty sure that's how it works

bobble

I'll edit in some usage guidance once I get to my computer, if it isn't there already

Mithical

(thumbsup)

Bookworm

5:32 PM

Q: What are the allegories in the land of green plums by Herta Muller

In the land of green plums we see some metaphors i sant to know what they refer to for example , grandmothers or belt and a lot more

allegory herta-muller

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Tsundoku

9:22 PM

@Randal'Thor I've been reading a Camus biography as part of my research for this question, since I wanted to do a "Gilgamesh" for L'Etranger. Just so you know.

Rand al'Thor

@Tsundoku Oh, are you planning to do a self-answer?

Tsundoku

Exactly. Based on sources in French.

I started reading that biography more than a month ago. Progress has been slow, however.

Rand al'Thor

Well, that might put me in a tricky situation w.r.t. the bounty.

Part of my motivation for setting it was to reward a relatively new user who's made a lot of good contributions, not just that answer.

But I could easily imagine an answer of yours outdoing the existing one.

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