That would be awesome, but like Mick said, we might have to wait until we're a bit bigger to have enough traffic and volume to make such a thing worthwhile.
@Benjamin I'm planning to post a jorge-luis-borges question next, but I'm just slightly too lazy/busy to find my hardcopy and check the facts I need for the question.
> It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr Sherlock Holmes was distiguished.
In RotK, Appendix A, there's this quote about female dwarves:
Dís was the daughter of Thrain II. She is the only dwarf-woman named in these histories. It was said by Gimli that there are few dwarf-women, probably no more than a third of the whole population. They seldom walk abroad except at ...
@Randal'Thor And of course reading and chatting is a little harder than watching and hearing and chatting (if you really thought about simultaneous chat).
@Randal'Thor Uh wut? So you really can read an actual literary text while simultaneously reading people's chat replies and writing your own replies? o_O
One time I was sitting next to somebody on a long journey, each of us reading a book, and I read each double-page spread of their book each time they turned the page, while simultaneously keeping up with my own book.
No.
The text isn't even real latin; it's been edited to make no sense. It's literally nonsense text.
The lorem ipsum text is typically a scrambled section of De finibus bonorum et malorum, a 1st-century BC Latin text by Cicero, with words altered, added, and removed to make it nonsensical, i...
So hopefully that's better now and the -1 will be reversed...
@Mithrandir Posting short decent answers and then expanding them into impressively long and magnificent answers, a la Jason Baker, is different from posting low-quality answers and then expanding them into decent ones, like I've seen a couple of people doing here.
So maybe I'm being too harsh on Mith's answer. "It's not a poem because it's nonsense" may not be a good argument, but if there is no good argument that can answer the question, that's not really the answer's fault.
If any of you are looking for a really interesting literary analysis question that is also pretty easy to answer (it doesn't take much googling to find the author's take on the poem, as well as several scholar's take on it), take a look at my question on Robert Frost
In Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" (which you can read online), the narrator gives two contradictory reasons for taking a particular fork in the road.
At the beginning of the poem, the narrator emphasizes that both roads are essentially equal. The narrator specifically states that both...
At the end of The Giver, Jonas and Gabe head down through the snow to a place where there are celebrations.
Downward, downward, faster and faster. Suddenly he was aware with certainty and joy that below, ahead, they were waiting for him; and they were waiting, too, for the baby. For the firs...
There, I've rewritten a classic poem in more modern and understandable language, including the line "Oh, whatever, I dunno." I'm either going to give everyone a good chuckle or get totally flamed off the site, and I'm not sure which :-P
In The Nose, an opera by Demitri Shostakovich, Shostakovich combines many of Nikolai Gogol's stories, including The Nose, for which the opera is named, into a single story. Had previous critics or writers analyzed the works of Nikolai Gogol as a single story?
IntTheodore Boone, John Grisham mentions several laws, such as about putting flyers on poles, drunk driving, and other random laws. How accurate are these? Are real laws, anywhere?
that reminds me of the place where we used to live; we weren't allowed to put yard sale signs on signposts and power poles; they made us take them down.
so we had to tape the sign to a cardboard box, and set that next to the road sign; that was allowed.
In RotK, Appendix A, there's this quote about female dwarves:
Dís was the daughter of Thrain II. She is the only dwarf-woman named in these histories. It was said by Gimli that there are few dwarf-women, probably no more than a third of the whole population. They seldom walk abroad except at ...
In Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" (which you can read online), the narrator gives two contradictory reasons for taking a particular fork in the road.
At the beginning of the poem, the narrator emphasizes that both roads are essentially equal. The narrator specifically states that both...
In The Nose, an opera by Demitri Shostakovich, Shostakovich combines many of Nikolai Gogol's stories, including The Nose, for which the opera is named, into a single story. Had previous critics or writers analyzed the works of Nikolai Gogol as a single story?
