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Q: A serial killer who makes wedding rings

user28653Trying to remember a book about a serial killer who kills his friend, mother and father. He is also a ring maker if I remember right. His dead friend’s wife figures out he is the killer. He tries to kill her young son but she outwits him. Some scenes such as descriptions of the location of a hous...

 
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Q: Was Lahiri correct to refer to the Orissi language?

Rand al'ThorFrom Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies": In a series of notebooks, in the evenings before his parents settled his marriage, he had listed the common etymologies of words, and at one point in his life he was confident that he could converse, if given the opportunity, in English, French, Ru...

 
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Q: A contradiction in the character of Clarissa Dalloway: Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

AshishMathThe story Mrs Dalloway was written by Virginia Wolf in 1925. On page 5, we have the following paragraph: For having lived in Westminster—how many years now? over twenty,—one feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an ind...


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