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Q: What do roses stand for in "The Nightingale and the Rose" by Oscar Wilde?

VictoriqueThere are 3 times roses appear in the garden: White rose: Marriage / chastity / young love / loyalty Yellow rose: Betrayal/sadness/doubt Red rose: True love/passion If you've read this, can you show me your thought every time a rose appears? I know for a time he worked for women's world magazin...

 
 
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4:44 AM
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Q: Oldest book written in America

Abraham RayI can’t find out the answer to this question anywhere:what’s the oldest book written in America? Also I honestly don’t know the title of said book!

 
 
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11:29 AM
@Tsundoku from a cursory look on wikipedia it looks like texts where the directions of reading matters
what comes to mind are poem's that read differently forwards and backwards, or ones placed on a corner that change meaning when the text on one side of the corner is included/excluded
 
11:55 AM
Ergodic literature is not limited to poems; the Wikipedia article also lists book-length works. However, I still don't understand the relevance of this to the distinction between narrative and dramatic forms that I mentioned earlier. Except that you probably can't have ergodic drama.
 
 
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5:14 PM
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Q: What was the first instance of the use of a Closed Time loop as a plot device in a published piece of American science fiction?

Aaargh ZombiesWhat was the first instance of the use of a closed time loop (An event where the cause and effect of a time loop feed into one another, creating a stable and unending chain of causality), in a piece of published American science fiction literature, and what was the response to it of professional ...

 
 
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6:25 PM
Ongoing topic challenges: Jorge Amado (Brazilian Portuguese) and the Decameron (14th-century Italian).
 
 
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8:59 PM
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Q: Do the young women and men of the Decameron represent the Virtues and sections of the soul?

Rand al'ThorThe Wikipedia page on the Decameron claims that: Many details of the Decameron are infused with a medieval sense of numerological and mystical significance.[9] For example, it is widely believed[by whom?] that the seven young women are meant to represent the Four Cardinal Virtues (Prudence, Just...

 
9:42 PM
answer-in-comments (partial, and with a greatly expanded answer-answer below). Flaggable?
 
10:02 PM
Congrats to @EJoshuaS on passing 12k, @Mithical on passing 17k, and @Tsundoku on passing 33,333.
 
:D
 
@bobble The comment was posted after the answer. You could level the same critique at my comment that came before the answer, but neither comment would make a good answer itself; they're both providing some partial information but without enough sources to be a full answer.
 
@Randal'Thor I'm more concerned about how the comment adds no information at all, it's just an attempt at an answer which managed to stick itself higher on the page than the actual answers
 
shrug
I don't think we've ever been one of those sites like RPG or IPS that crusades against answers in comments.
 
I wouldn't decline a flag on them, though, although I try to avoid moderating my own posts too much.
 
10:35 PM
@Bookworm By the way, Aphrodite also disguised herself as an HNQ.
 

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