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This was a book I read in primary school (first read to me when I was 8 yrs old in 2014 in Australia) and the only thing I remember about the cover was that it was pink. The copy that my school had ...
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Trollope in Orley Farm refers to "the wisest Rustums of the law." Who was the original Rustum?
He had left that congress, though the wisest Rustums of the law from all the civilized ...
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The tale Ladri in chiesa (Thefts in church) belongs to the book Racconti romani (Roman tales) by Alberto Moravia. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any translation to English of this short ...
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I was reading The Elusive Samurai, a manga by Yusei Matsui, which is set in the XIV century in Japan. The author uses some kind of special "flashforward" in which the characters, mostly ...
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I am searching for a book about tantric sex for couples written by an Australian couple. I read the book in northeast USA in english language around 2006. I think I bought it in a book store at the ...
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15 years ago I read a great book that I have searched for online and at Nordic stores and come up a-cropper. It's set in the 19th c (I think) and follows the story of a poor Finnish girl who migrates ...
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Alberto Moravia's Agostino is clearly a Bildungsroman: the events that happened to the thirteen-year-old ingenuous protagonist during the summer of 1942 mark his entry into adolescence. But some other ...
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I read a lot of paperback books. Almost exclusively, in fact. I have one problem, though - all the covers get bent while I read them (or sometimes after one of the siblings has a crack at it). They ...
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"Mad Hatter: 'Why is a raven like a writing-desk?'
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'Have you guessed the riddle yet?' the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
'No, I give it up,' Alice replied: 'What’s the answer?'
'I ...
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In Simon and Garfunkel's song The Sound of Silence1, there is the following passage in lyrics:
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
What is this neon god?
Obviously, they ...
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William Blake's poem “The Tyger” from Songs of Experience contains one couplet whose meaning has always puzzled me, lines 17–18, the first two lines of the fifth stanza:
When the stars threw ...
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In Jane Austen's Emma, when Emma and Mr. Knightley are discussing first names, this exchange happens:
'And cannot you call me "George" now?'
'Impossible!—I never can call you any thing but &...
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The fifth verse of "The Sound of Silence" runs thusly:
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And ...
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Douglas Adams evidently named Paul Neil Milne Johnstone the worst poet in the universe in the original Hitchiker's Guide radio broadcast. Why him? Evidently they went to school together, but I still ...
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Can you answer this question?
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In Tomorrow's People, by Paul Morland, the author discusses the inequality of infant mortality within nations:
The worst countries have made the fastest progress, so the gap is closing at the ...
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