I would like to identify a comedic book that was recommended​ to me some time ago. I don't remember much, but here is a brief description: The work is either 1 short, or a collection of short stories. The cover had clocks in it (perhaps they were warped in a surreal way). This copy appeared ...

In The Sandman Presents: Lucifer - The Morningstar Option #3 (written by Mike Carey and drawn by Scott Hampton), Lucifer tells he needed Rachel Begai to channel her desire to destroy the Velleity, as he himself is short on desire: At tat point Lucifer has his hidden agenda, namely getting the ...

This excellent answer by Joshua Engel draws a comparison between men dressed as women in Shakespeare-era plays and perspective jumps in modern cinema: The audience would, of course, have been aware that these characters were portrayed by boys. [...] It worked only because the audience was ful...

Early in the beta, community member Beastly Gerbil started a meta conversation titled Should we be tagging questions with the names of specific books?. So far, we generally have been tagging questions with book titles, but that has caused several problems, and has the potential to cause problems ...

Source: An Explication of "Work Without Hope", by Amy Edwards, ’02 West Chester University The last two lines of this poem are the turning point, and make it all come together. Coleridge writes, "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live." [1.] The man ...