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Bookworm

05:09

Q: A Matt Helm-style action novel with killer turtles?

I have vague memories from before the year 2000, of reading a paperback novel, perhaps a serial. It was about a super-spy, detective, or secret agent. It was more in the style of "Matt Helm" than "James Bond." There was one scene that I remember. It took place at a large indoor pool. The big badd...

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verbose

05:28

@Bookworm Hnq

Mithical

05:40

Those Emma questions keep hitting HNQ.

Bookworm

06:00

Q: Euripides - Were his Argonautical works considered canon?

After reading his work "Medea", I'm left wondering how the immediate audience and subsequent generations thought about it. Namely, whether it was accepted straight away as part of this wider universe, the same literary world as the Argonautica -- or if Medea existed in a "silo", held apart from t...

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Matt Thrower

14:24

@verbose maybe so, but I've lost the long race and deservedly so, to someone who clearly has more knowledge and passion than me :)

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Bookworm

18:25

Q: What does this little speech by Mr. Weston to Emma accomplish?

Before the arrival of Frank Churchill in Jane Austen's Emma, Mr. Weston, Frank Churchill's father, happens to meet Emma on the road, and he says this to Emma: Emma could imagine she saw a touch of the arm at this speech, from his wife. 'We had better move on, Mr Weston,' said she; 'we are detain...