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b_jonas
b_jonas
12:39 AM
@NapoleonWilson Ooh. Does it have any Latin on it, written in a script like Fraktur or Blackletter that most people aren't used to reading?
 
Napoleon Wilson
Napoleon Wilson
12:58 AM
No, straight-to-the-point Arial. Neither Latin nor even English. ;-)
 
b_jonas
b_jonas
@NapoleonWilson Ok. Does it at least have a seal saying that the university was founded in 1782?
 
Napoleon Wilson
Napoleon Wilson
I don't think it's even half as old.
 
 
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North Læraðr
North Læraðr
3:15 AM
@b_jonas Should I ask this in meta? "How to write author tags"?
Didn't we have a tag for Nick Joaquin before? Wasn't he a topic challenge?
 
 
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Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
7:26 AM
@NorthLæraðr Is an ongoing topic challenge, but that was the first question asked in this one.
 
 
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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
10:49 AM
What do we know about a-j-hall? The tag wiki excerpt is extremely sparse.
 
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
11:12 AM
Mark Strand: Eating Poetry: "Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. / There is no happiness like mine. / I have been eating poetry. (...)"
@NapoleonWilson Arial? Oh, the horror, the horror!
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
(that's the same person as per fanlore.org/wiki/A._J._Hall )
Oh, the tag wiki has a little more detail than the excerpt.
 
Napoleon Wilson
Napoleon Wilson
11:44 AM
@Tsundoku Or maybe it's one of the 5 million other fonts that look exactly like Arial. I'm not that well-versed in the wonderful world of fonts. ;-)
 
Bookworm
Bookworm
1
Q: What are "deadly voids and unbidden infidelities" in "Moby-Dick"?

RishabhFrom chapter 7 ("The Chapel") of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville: Oh! ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass; who standing among flowers can say—here, here lies my beloved; ye know not the desolation that broods in bosoms like these. What bitter blanks in those black-bordered marbles whic...

meaning moby-dick herman-melville
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Q: What's with the dogs in Mark Strand's "Eating Poetry"?

Rand al'ThorIn Mark Strand's poem "Eating Poetry", the first several lines appear to be about a person who has been consuming poetry - I interpreted this as metaphorical, "eating" poetry as in reading it rather than literally eating books. Halfway through the poem, dogs are mentioned as coming up from the ba...

poetry symbolism mark-strand
 
Bookworm
Bookworm
12:11 PM
0
Q: What's meant by "melancholy point work" in "The Just Men of Cordova"?

Ahmed SamirIn chapter 6 of The Just Men of Cordova by Edgar Wallace, the author was describing a young boxer constable and his work under his bad superior. Frank Fellowe was agitating a punch-ball in one of the upper rooms of his little cottage, and with good reason. He was “taking out” of the ball all the...

edgar-wallace
 
 
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North Læraðr
North Læraðr
1:42 PM
@Tsundoku Ewwww Arial
 
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
@NorthLæraðr You've added a crown to your avatar?
Prince NorthLæraðr?
 
Knight
Knight
How to read “The woman who had two navels” by Nick Joaquin? It’s unavailable on amazon, not even available on any other internet site (within limit of my google-fu).
 
North Læraðr
North Læraðr
2:01 PM
@Tsundoku Oh, it's a verrrrryyy long story
You would have to go through Puzzling SE's chatroom, The Sphinx's Lair
@Tsundoku You may call me that if you wish
 
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
3:12 PM
@Knight It's included in The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic published by Penguin in 2017. I am not aware of any other publication by Joaquin that is still in print :-(
 
Knight
Knight
@Tsundoku How did you read that?
 
 
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Eddie Kal
Eddie Kal
4:31 PM
@Knight I can't find it either.
 
Knight
Knight
@EddieKal Hi :-) Eddiorama
 
Eddie Kal
Eddie Kal
@Knight Hi!
 
b_jonas
b_jonas
4:51 PM
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Q: Do you know this manga with slaves?

ViviI am looking for a manga i read a long time ago, and i can't remember the title. We follow a young man, his female friend was kidnapped a day before when the manga starts. He founds out that a secret organisation may have done the crime. They take random people from the streets to make them slave...

story-identification manga
^ If this gets closed on Sci Fi, do we migrate it?
 
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
@Knight What do you mean? I bought the printed book. (There is also a Kindle version.)
@b_jonas I think it's formally on topic but it probably needs a bit more detail to be answerable. (Language? How old is it? ...)
 
b_jonas
b_jonas
and it's now closed
 
Knight
Knight
5:06 PM
@Tsundoku You bought it lately? They say they won’t deliver it to me.
 
b_jonas
b_jonas
I dropped a comment, but if someone who knows more about manga than me (just about anyone) writes a better one quickly, I can delete mine.
 
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
5:23 PM
@Knight I ordered it in a local bookshop on 24 August and received it on 19 September. (I never buy from Amazon as a matter of principle.)
 
Knight
Knight
Fine
 
 
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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
8:15 PM
A new user has posted a non-answer that actually contains a valid point: I Am a Cat (published in 1905-1906) cannot reference The Inimitable Jeeves, which was written almost two decades later. @Randal'Thor ?
 
Gareth Rees
Gareth Rees
8:26 PM
@Tsundoku The non-answer seems to be an attempt to comment, by a user who doesn't have the reputation to add a comment. Do moderators have the power to turn comments-as-answers into comments?
 
 
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Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
11:57 PM
@GarethRees Yes, and done. I also unaccepted the Jeeves answer.
 

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