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bobble
bobble
02:39
@Bookworm I read a bit further and felt very stupid, so I've deleted this
This isn't really a full answer, and would be better as an edit into Rand's answer. — bobble 30 secs ago
agree? I'm debating whether to edit the link into Rand's answer and then flag this one as NAA
verbose
verbose
02:59
@bobble what question is this referring to?
bobble
bobble
click on the timestamp "30 secs ago" and that will link you directly to the comment
verbose
verbose
@bobble yeah I flagged it as NAA a few minutes before I saw your question about it
or your comment on it
 
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Bookworm
Bookworm
04:39
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Q: What is an “aglet-baby” exactly?

Gerald LivingsThis is my opinion. How true it might be, is open for discussion. So please discuss! I am not an expert on literature or Shakespeare. I am a jeweler who studies how jewelry impacts the material culture of our society. My question: William Shakespeare lived between April 1564 to April 1616. During...

william-shakespeare
bobble
bobble
05:00
bobble zzz\
 
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verbose
verbose
06:43
I'm such a meanie. I told two new users that their questions, while interesting, were opinion-based. And I flagged an answer by a third on the grounds that it was not an answer. I am personally the reason Lit SE drives new users away, aren't I? 😢
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
07:35
Jupiter rescued the embryonic Bacchus by placing him in his thigh to develop until birth. Greek mythology, playing fast and loose with biological laws since 2000 BC.
Thanks for the detailed answer, @verbose! Mary's answer is OK and I upvoted it, but I was hoping for something a little more, well, verbose.
@bobble If it wasn't my own "competing" answer, I'd've converted the new answer into a comment on the old one. As it is, I'll leave Tsundoku or Gallifreyan to handle it, to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest.
There is a possible argument to say it's an OK answer, since it does provide the answer to the question, even if the correct answer was already provided before. So, yeah, I'm not going to make that call.
@verbose Your first link goes to a meta post, but I guess you meant the aglet question? The "Sikka Badal Gaya" question has now been edited to rescue it, and I think the aglet question could be rescued too, again by removing the answerish content and leaving just the question. Your comments are great.
(and yes, I realise your chat post was joking :-) )
verbose
verbose
@Randal'Thor oops. yeah I meant the aglet post
@Randal'Thor you should read the Mahabharata. A friend once commented that you could tell the entire story just by narrating the various weird births of the different characters.
Bookworm
Bookworm
08:24
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Q: Chilli peppers in fifteenth-century India?

verboseIn Canto 7 of The Lusíads, when Vasco da Gama and his crew finally land in Calicut, they encounter a Moor named Monsayeed who explains to the former: You are now in India, with its various Peoples who prosper and grow rich From gold and sweet perfumes and peppercorns Cardamoms, hot chillies, and...

historical-context translation the-lusiads luis-vaz-de-camoes
verbose
verbose
08:49
also, Mickle's translation of Os Lusìadas is awful, and Burton's is infinitely better. Dunno why it wasn't mentioned in our resources for this topic challenge.
 
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Bookworm
Bookworm
14:39
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Q: Meaning of "dawning way" and the use of "altogether" in the context below

Viser HashemiThis passage is from The children's bach by Helen Garner Philip did not turn up with the car. This did not surprise Elizabeth. She took the bus to the airport. Vicki’s plane was late. Elizabeth walked up and down on the shiny tiles. She did not like people to observe that she was being kept wait...

meaning the-childrens-bach helen-garner
 
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Bookworm
Bookworm
15:54
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Q: On what sources did Camões base his Os Lusíadas?

Rand al'ThorOs Lusíadas is one of the most important works of Portuguese literature, written by Luís de Camões in the 16th century and describing imaginatively the Portuguese voyages of discovery, mostly the adventures of Vasco da Gama. Apparently Camões wrote much of his epic while he was in eastern Asia (M...

inspiration portuguese-literature the-lusiads luis-vaz-de-camoes
bobble
bobble
16:38
@Bookworm These chilli peppers are so hot, they're on the Hot Network Questions
Would this question be a candidate for identification-request?
Would this question be a candidate for name-significance, on the basis that it's asking about the significance of not naming? (So that the only name we know the character by is their relationship to another)
Bookworm
Bookworm
17:09
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Q: metaphor and allegory

Barid Baran AcharyaAn allegory uses concrete ideas as symbols for deeper or layered meanings. Folk tales and fables are often allegorical. Visual art or so to say all finer arts and literature can be allegorical. In metaphor, a figure of speech where things are equated not because they are same but because one can...

literary-device allegory
 
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Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
19:02
The Os Lusiadas challenge has turned out to be oddly topical this month, as there's an unexpected surge in popularity of sailing around the Cape of Good Hope.
bobble
bobble
19:32
? why are there deleted messages

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