In Chapter 21 of Catcher in the Rye, Phoebe tells Holden about a movie she saw at the "Lister Foundation". No other mention of the Foundation appears in the text. Was it a real organization when Salinger wrote Catcher? If not, is it based on another organization, or is it a product of Salinger's ...
@bobble I haven't checked this specific case, but if someone's actual first post is deleted, their second post will go to the queue. This'll happen within a certain age limit for the account, although I don't recall the specific numbers.
It's been a long time, so my memory of the details is fuzzy. But I remember reading a book in which unicorns were the main characters; this is not a book about humans befriending unicorns in our world, but about a whole different unicorn society. The plot centered around music, something like the...
@bobble of the two I'd say moral as the question is about the specific message the work is trying to convey, not about a theme like marriage or childhood or money.
@bobble Oddly, my site profile says 999 but my network profile says 998. Not sure which one is right, and I'm not going to count them to be sure!
In more local news, Gareth and I are both close to 400 answers here.
(Rees, not McCaughan.)
@bobble Hmm, I wasn't aware we have a plot-element tag. That seems a very inconsistently applied tag, and probably not worth having here IMO (with the 5-tag limit, we probably can't afford to add that tag to every question about something to do with the plot).
@verbose I was expecting more downvotes for being poorly researched. It's probably a dumb question to anyone who knows the first thing about either the Ramayana or the Mahabharata. (Although not as dumb-for-everyone-who-knows-the-first-thing-about-the-topic as my Hindi/Bengali question ...)
I'm surprised you read mine so quickly. I thought you'd say it was too long and you'd need to make time for it on the weekend or something.
Also, I have edited it quite considerably since I first posted it, as I found a scholarly article about the relationship between the two stories only later
Also, TIL that the Isle of Man is not part of the United Kingdom
And I also learned a lot more about terms like "Great Britain," "The British Isles," etc.
Though I'm wondering why it's "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" as though the Orkneys and the Shetlands and the Isle of Wight don't count. I mean, if Great Britain refers to the geographic island that includes England, Wales, and Scotland, and Northern Ireland refers to that portion of Ulster that isn't part of the Republic of Ireland, then the other islands I just mentioned are part of the UK too but the name doesn't reflect that.
@GarethMcCaughan oh I dunno. It's more detailed but says essentially the same thing as yours
@bobble We need a few Garys (Garies?), Garrys (Garries?), Garrets, Garetts, and Garretts to add to the general mêlée. We could organize a battle like the Battle of the Joshes
@verbose Here's another thing to learn about the terminology of these sceptred isles: you shouldn't say "the Orkneys" and "the Shetlands". Just Orkney and Shetland are fine, or the Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands, but they don't like it if you pluralise Orkneys and Shetlands as nouns.
@verbose Foil Arms and Hog are full of funny videos, especially if you're at all interested in Irish culture. This is one of my favourites, mostly for how beautifully it captures the atmosphere of Irish traditional singing.
I'm trying to understand Roethke's "The Waking", and one of my problems is that I'm not sure who "you" is. Most of the poem uses "I" or "my", etc.. There are a few instances where other pronouns are used:
First instance of "you" (line 7):
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
This verse (...
I'm trying to understand Roethke's "The Waking", and one of my problems is that I'm not sure who "you" is. Most of the poem uses "I" or "my", etc.. There are a few instances where other pronouns are used:
First instance of "you" (line 7):
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
This verse (...
