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Bookworm
Bookworm
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Q: Short story about African missionary couple losing his mind, making mud statue

Wilson LMy mom remembers reading a short story published in a college anthology at least before 1980, she thinks it was her father's so maybe published 30's or 40's. It was about a missionary couple to Africa and the man going insane/tribal, the wife giving him back the wedding ring and leaving him, and ...

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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
10:16
Мы хомяки и мы хомячим!
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> Butterflies waste in the heavens their hours
Fish in the water and bees over flowers
And only the hamster is busy all day
There's not a moment to trifle away
When the whole world is a big takeaway

Oh-oh, I've got no cheeks to spare!
But is it for a hamster to despair?
I'll call my buddies and we'll find a way
To hamster, hamster
Stuff awa-ay!
I translated the first stanza and the refrain. A humorous children's song
 
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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
11:25
@Bookworm Yes, usually.
 
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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
16:23
humanism in Elizabethan drama on reddit/AskLiteraryStudies.
If you could rewrite the ending to hamlet, how would it go? on Reddit/shakespeare.
Fortinbras is a play that recounts the events after Hamlet's death that go on throughout Elsinore. The play includes almost every character from Hamlet returning as a ghost.
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
@Bookworm I'm not an HNQ nor an HNQ's answer, but I'll heat the network till the HNQ comes.
@Bookworm Can I trust that Shakespeare's sonnets will always reach the HNQ list?
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
16:48
@Randal'Thor Hah,you beat me to it!
I actually thought that sonnets question couldn't reach HNQ because the first answer was posted 13 hours after it was asked. I guess the time limit for HNQs is less strict than I had assumed.
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
17:19
Evidently the HNQ check doesn't just scan every question as it reaches 8 hours old, but scans all questions of permissible age.
If the Q&A get enough votes quickly enough, we can get late HNQs.

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