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There are many characters in Gaiman's Sandman stories that have multiple names; Morpheus is one of them. For the most part, they usually don't mind if someone calls them by one name or another. The first that I've seen this happen was with Ishtar.
After meeting Ishtar, Morpheus calls her by two ...
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There must be a software that teaches people how to read - that can be used on one's computer at home? It would present texts of increasing difficulty as one progressed. Perhaps it would sound out a word if one clicked on a word in the text that one could not pronounce. Etc. There are some 30,...
In Agatha Christie's book The Listerdale Mystery, in the story Swan Song, there is the following qoute:
It required no imagination to realise that his father's name had been Cohen.
This comes after a description of Mr Cowen, the agent of an Opera Singer.
The description is:
He was a ta...
Please do not migrate new or largely-unanswered questions unless there is a very compelling reason to do so (e.g. trying to save otherwise long-standing great content).
If the question is off topic, simply ask the author to ask their question in the context of the correct site.
Migrations have...
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object
of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be
but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There
is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it
is not...
She will make him a very proper wife -Pride218-
Does it mean she will become a proper wife? Or she will make him turn into a woman(wife)?
I think that the sentence above goes like this:
He quit smoking cold turkey.
This could mean he quit smoking + he was cold turkey.
So, cold turkey desc...
We've been getting a lot of migrations to ELL lately. That's actually fine by me – I think a lot of them are okay on ELL, even if they're not suitable for EL&U. The two sites have different standards, and that's okay.
But we've also been getting migrations like this:
When someone wanna tal...
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Siegfried Sassoon's short poem "The Hero" (full text here) is about a young soldier who has died in the First World War, and describes the news of his death being given to his grieving mother.
When I studied this poem for an English literature GCSE, I remember disliking the character of the "Bro...
As our request to use the site favicon was status-declined, we need something else.
The goals:
Design a suitable profile picture for the Twitter account, that sizes well, and has something to do with books/literature and
isn't copyrighted or anything. (recommended dimensions are 400x400 pixel...
No confirmation, but evidence points to at least some basis in Salinger's early life
They were both born and raised in Manhattan, New York.
They both attended preppy private schools in Pennsylvania, and both were all-boys schools.
Holden was kicked out of school for failing 4/5 courses, and Sal...0
I occasionally browse through the hard-science tag. One of my pet peeves is having to scroll through answers on the hard science tag that have a lot of upvotes, but don't meet the requirements of the hard-science tag.
Lately, answers that don't meet the requirements have been receiving post noti...
In Moby Dick, beginning of chapter 10, I read about the resemblance of Queequeg's head to George Washington's:
It may seem ridiculous, but it reminded me of General Washington's head, as seen in the popular busts of him.
Now to this European, George Washington is better known as first Presi...
A random excerpt from Ezra Pound's war speeches
AXIOM. Against an organized force of four or more, probably EIGHT million, a hundred individuals
can NOT prevail until ORGANIZED. The sporadic efforts of a few excited young men are no use. The
dilettante velleities of a few the...user15026
