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bobble

12:01 AM

Would this question quality for publishing? literature.stackexchange.com/q/6770/11259

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verbose

2:03 AM

@bobble The codex is pictorial, so it's not in Spanish. It might qualify for a nahuatl-literature, except I'm not sure it qualifies as literature at all; it seems more like drawing or painting.

@bobble I think so

b_jonas

2:32 AM

@verbose No, I wasn't thinking of it as a literary trope. I was just surprised about science history.

verbose

2:43 AM

@b_jonas ah

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Rand al'Thor

5:42 AM

@Tsundoku I did, yes, but I still have it open in one tab on my computer, in case I find time to get back to it. Ditto with (a probably-crappy English translation/abridgement of) the Shahnameh, for that matter.

@Soyuz42 I thought the Soviet "national" anthem was the Internationale?

Ah, they changed it in the mid-20th century.

@bobble Half the sites on the network have a "close-votes are not super-downvotes" meta post inspired by that Arqade one, and I doubt (m)any of them went to ask Arqade for permission.

@verbose It is an excellent principle, but I don't think Lit has had much of a problem with people treating close-votes as super-downvotes. We rarely get people close-voting for "lack of research" or suchlike; the closest thing we have is people close-voting for "belongs on ELL", which has been a much-discussed issue and may be solved by the planned upcoming custom close reason.

@bobble Definitely not Spanish literature, and I'd say not even another language tag. That was a question Hamlet posted to showcase how pictures can become literature due to their cultural/societal role. The Huexotzinco Codex doesn't have any "writing" as we would recognise it, but it was a record of goods exchanged which was used as evidence in a Spanish court case.

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b_jonas

8:39 AM

@Randal'Thor I tried to showcase that. It failed. Post is now on History SE. history.stackexchange.com/q/61722/24029

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Rand al'Thor

11:12 AM

@NewTopicChallengeSuggestion As soon as I saw this referred to in an HNQ from another site, I knew it should be a topic challenge proposal, and more reading about it only convinced me further.

Speaking of topic challenges, the next one to be announced will be our first @verbose proposal - raising the question of whether we should copy-paste the whole proposal text into the announcement, as per usual, or just a shorter summary.

I'm currently reading about the literature of Oceania to try to find something good for a topic challenge. Might go and track down BESW to pick his brains about some ideas, but I want to do my homework first, so I can have at least some minimal knowledge to discuss with him, rather than just an open-ended "hey, can you suggest any good authors from Oceanic literature?"

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Bookworm

12:53 PM

Q: Meaning of "the kind of woman who’d throw round terms like theorthodox feminist position. "

This passage is from The children's bach by Helen Garner Doctor Fox looked at Elizabeth as he chewed, and nodded and smiled. She must be nearly forty now, like Dex. Thank God they were never foolish enough to marry, though no doubt Dexter had poked her when they were students. He felt like laugh...

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bobble

2:16 PM

I poked Spanish.SE's chat for this Tsundoku question and, well, at least they confirmed it ain't Spanish

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Bookworm

3:52 PM

Q: How does ancient Greek polytheism fit with Christianity in The Lusiads?

The Lusiads (Os Lusíadas), considered the national epic of Portugal, was written by Luís Vaz de Camões during the 16th century, a period in which the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions were menacing the Iberian peninsula and beyond. Some parts of the story (at least in the first two cantos) are ...