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10:01 AM

Q: What does "snow in the crevices of a boggy bank" mean here?

I would like to know what "snow in the crevices of a boggy bank" means in the following sentences: Her cheek near his sleeve, she studied a dozen village pictures. They were streaky; she saw only trees, shrubbery, a porch indistinct in leafy shadows. But she exclaimed over the lakes: dark...

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Bookworm

5:03 PM

Q: What do the locations mentioned in First Love mean?

Gwendoline Riley's novel First Love (2017) is about the relationship of the female narrator, Neve, with Edwyn, and how the type of relationships she had with her mother and (especially) her abusive father play a role in it. Neve and Edwyn live in Edwyn's flat near West Brompton station in London....

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Gallifreyan

8:18 PM

It's science fiction and fantasy week on Goodreads, if anyone's interested.

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Napoleon Wilson

10:47 PM

@NapoleonWilson That turned out to be a good idea. Excellent answer and probably much better than anything I would have come up with.

Napoleon Wilson

11:06 PM

Too bad that really good answer to the other question is tainted by a quite patronizing attitude.

Not answering these things was actually a really good idea, it seems. ;-)

Bookworm

11:49 PM

Q: Antigone (Sophocles)

I just stumbled on this translation of Antigone by F. L. Lucas where it says: Wonders there are many, but there is no wonder wilder than man - Man who makes the winds of winter bear him, Through the trough of waves that tower about him, across grey wastes of sea; Man who wearies the U...