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3:07 AM

Q: Should Henry 6, Part 3 be read prior to reading Richard III?

For context, this reading is entirely devoted to pleasure. I am not analyzing (academically) nor performing the plays, and my desire to read the plays derive completely from my profound affection towards William Shakespeare, and the language of the period and the point that I have been known to p...

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Knight

7:52 AM

@EddieKal Regarding your "he" question in The Prophet, I find that most of times poets personify love as opposite to their own genders. So, if a poet is male he personifies Love as female, and vice versa. But in the case of Gibran things are other way round.

Eddie Kal

@Knight That's very interesting!

You should try to write an answer. Round up some examples and use them as the point of departure for an analysis

Knight

8:32 AM

Thanks for encouraging me, I shall write an answer Eddie.

Rand al'Thor

Quarterly Best-Of roundup: please nominate some exemplary Q&A from the third quarter (Jul/Aug/Sep) of 2020.

Do the upvotes on this mean "yes we do" or "good question to discuss"?

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Tsundoku

1:44 PM

@Randal'Thor To be honest, I'm not sure what migration path means in practical terms. The term suggests that it's more than just a set of criteria for ELU questions that would be acceptable on our site, but I don't know what the practical or technical implications are.

@NorthLæraðr New tag: henry-vi-part-iii.

North Læraðr

@Tsundoku thanks

Bookworm

2:08 PM

Q: Identify an instance of Theatricality and analyse its significance in Lady Audley’s Secret

Could you help me with the wuestion below of the book Lady Audley’s Secret? Thank you

history-of-literature

Rand al'Thor

2:27 PM

@Tsundoku It would mean that users on ELU could choose it as a close reason, opening the option of migration to Lit to all quintuplets of 3k+rep users rather than only diamond moderators.

There wouldn't be a built-in set of criteria: we could assemble one on meta, but it couldn't even be linked to directly in the close/migrate reason. Opening a migration path is a purely practical/technical thing.

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Tsundoku

4:24 PM

Sleipnir spotted in Canada.

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Librarian

6:30 PM

Q: Synonymise tags such as french-literature and portuguese-literature with tags such as francophone-literature, lusophone-literature etc?

The highest-voted answer to the question Do we need such broad tags on questions about specific works? (+13, -3) proposed that we use tags such as russian-literature for literary works written in Russian, etc, i.e. based on the language those works were written in, as opposed to the country in wh...