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I don't think the story's message is about men, so much as it is about toxic relationships, and common expectations from women. Both characters come from existing fairy-tales (I've seen them pegged …

They did not resemble themselves anymore. While the associations you draw, linking the various women to the various professions, make sense, I feel they are very weakly supported by the text -- r …

A proposal for a possible connection - tenuous, but no more than those you've suggested: Nurses work at hospitals, which are full of machines and medical instruments. Think of patients hooked up to I …

Probably Four. A four-gabled house seems to refer to an X-like shape, with a gable extending in each direction: Also, take a look at this image and house-plan for a house called The Four Gables. …

The dragon is a metaphor for Death, particularly by old age and by disease. This ties directly into Grey's previous recent video, "Why Die?", where he makes the same argument but without the metaphor. …

It's worth noting that the story heavily implies that Amira is lesbian. It's absolutely explicit that she finds the idea of a (heterosexual) marriage "monstrous". Note how her previous ideas, before …

There are several options -- which makes sense, as this is a story which explores the idea of infinity. The Library is spherical Immediately following the line "I say that the Library is unending", …

You are bringing the first quote a little out of context: The idealists argue that the hexagonal rooms are a necessary from of absolute space or, at least, of our intuition of space. They reason t …

Sarah Tolmie's novelette The Dancer on the Stairs is a kind of portal fantasy, with the protagonist whisked away from our world into a strange fantastical one -- except the place she is whisked to is …

In Miriam Roth's classic Hebrew children's book A Tale of Five Balloons (Hebrew: מעשה בחמישה בלונים), five children each get a balloon: In sequence, each child sees their balloon pop. And each is t …

The Library of Babel cannot be taken as plausible, realistic worldbuilding. "How can real-world languages exist" is not going to have more of an answer than "How does an immense number of bound books …

The stories of I, Robot - and Asimov's robot stories in general - tend to circle around two central themes: Humanity's control and understanding of the technology it has created. Non-human life, an …

A central concern of The Library of Babel — and particularly this section of it — is the search for order and meaning within a chaotic world. In this passage, Borges introduces the Purifiers; those wh …