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Q: Why did Sally Roe use her real name on the envelope for her letters to Tom Harris?

EJoshuaSAfter her supposed death in the beginning of Piercing the Darkness, Sally Roe started writing to Tom Harris after learning about the bogus lawsuit against him. However, she puts her real name on the envelope, which caused her letters to be intercepted by her pursuers. Why did she do that? It seem...

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Bookworm
Bookworm
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Q: Meaning of "may I be twice damned for a bank-clerk or store hand" in "I hight Don Quixote", a poem by Parsons

CopperKettleFrom I Hight Don Quixote: They said I was crazy, ambiguous, lazy, disgusting, fantastic, obscene; So I hied for my sagebrush and cactus and corn mush, To see if the air was still clean. Oh, I hight Don Quixote, I live on peyote, marihuana, morphine and cocaine, And may I be twice...

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Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
10:51 AM
@ChristopheStrobbe Thank you ^_^
 
 
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Christophe Strobbe
Christophe Strobbe
2:05 PM
Someone (presumably @CopperKettle) recently created the tag sonnets for a question about Shakespeare's sonnet 90. However, if it is meant to refer to a genre, I would prefer a singular form (like epistolary-novel). If it is meant to refer to Shakespeare's sonnets, then shakespeare-sonnets or sonnets-shakespeare would be the appropriate tag.
Unfortunately, we haven't been consistent with regard to singular and plural forms, e.g. short-stories, mystery-novels, myths, fairy-tales, folk-tales, video-games, illustrators, adaptations, origins, apocryphal-works etc.
 
 
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b_jonas
b_jonas
6:44 PM
thechairparade.com/OneSentenceStories This collection of short stories (ed. Matthew Bennardo, 16 single sentence stories) is an entertaining read. There's not much overall theme, each story evokes very different emotions. Many end in a twist, but that's probably typical for short short stories.
At least one had an ending on which I had to do a double-take, because it made no sense, until I realized what the last clause actually meant.
The "one sentence" part is just a gimmick that seems practically meaningless to me, because several of the stories just work it around by replacing periods with em-dashes or commas, and putting important information in the title.
 

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