The novel Moby Dick uses many different genres of writing (most famously the encyclopedia-style chapter on whale types, but also play-scripts, Shakespeare-style soliloquies, sermons, etc.). Are there any adaptations that try to emulate this range of genres/styles? For example, a film version may ...

I often wonder what does the poet wants to convey with these lines ? rang-rej ko dinhi. it was given to a master-painter. Aisa rang, ranga rang re le, He painted the colours such that, lal-o-lal kar dinhi. (he) made it completely red. Why does he mention the color to be red? Here is the l...

I would have read this about 1978 and all I can recall about it is divers ( man and woman) dive into the ocean and end up in an underwater city. At the end, the underwater people put them back into their diving suits and make them go into a room where it fills up with water and a door opens to le...

When you read Hemingway, the first thing you notice is that he uses the conjunction and a lot, and he is fond of long sentences! If I didn't know it's Hemingway, I would probably thought it's not good writing. Well, I'm neither a litterateur, nor am I in any position to critic him. But still, wou...

In Satan in Goray, Isaac Bashevis Singer mentions several ways in which it's "proven" that Shabbtai Tzvi is the Messiah: During the time Rabbi Benish still dwelt in Lublin he had heard amazing things. All men were discussing the Jerusalemite rabbinical emissary, Baruch Gad, who, in journeying th...