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3:34 PM

@Alex I you're interested in other examples: Yeats phases of the moon, the pardoner's hair style, wands and magic, Camus' The Rebel.

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bobble

5:11 PM

setting? literature.stackexchange.com/q/2213/11259

Mithical

Looks applicable

Bookworm

6:05 PM

Q: A book from the 80s/90s with a stage magician and a couple women

I'm sorry but my memory is quite spotty on this but I'm obsessed with trying to remember this book. I don't remember the author or title at all. I barely remember a few things. the main character was a man who I think was a stage magician but there was always this ambiguity about whether or not ...

identification-request

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Tsundoku

8:49 PM

Is Literature Healthy? (Oxford University Press, 2016). I don't doubt that it is, but don't neglect your macros, your vitamins and your minerals over it.

Mithical

*gnaws on a copy of Where the Red Fern Grows* I don't think this is covering my nutritional needs, no.

Tsundoku

That's because you're not a cat. Although I don't know how literature nourishes cats.

The Novel: A Survival Skill by Tim Parks.

bobble

@Tsundoku purfectly well, thank you very much

Tsundoku

@bobble Oh, I didn't know you were a cat. I think the Pope would like you very much.

After all, the Pope is a Catoholic.

Tsundoku

9:27 PM

Everybody has just died laughing, so I can just as well go to bed.

Napoleon Wilson

Well, after reading it thrice I got it.

(And it's quite nice.)

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Bookworm

11:08 PM

Q: 90s retelling of Twelfth Night set in Internet chatrooms

I'm looking for a book I read in the late 1990s that actually was the inspiration for the username I still use today. It was based on the plot of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, with people falling in love while not knowing one another's true gender identities. These people met in chatrooms in the ...