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Who said "If you don't do politics, politics will do you"?
Google says it's Pericles or Bismark, but neither of Wikiquotes pages has it.
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Short story about young boy bitten by a black widow
This was maybe 4-6 years ago. I read a stapled-together paper printout. It was maybe 30 pages total.
In the story, a young boy woke up one morning and got ready for school. When he was putting his ...
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YA book about a young girl flies on plane to see father or uncle. She eats a cheese and mayo sandwich and gets sick
My 6th grade teacher read this book to us in 1983 or 1984. Seems like it had a yellow cover. It wasn’t a short story. A girl lives with her mom and travels by plane to see her father or uncle. Mom ...
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"The fat, sunny ring of the world's casually afternooned" in Stanley Elkin's "I Look Out for Ed Wolfe"
"I Look Out for Ed Wolfe" by Stanley Elkin, published in Esquire magazine (1st September, 1962), contains in its second paragraph the sentence:
In the sound of his own voice he detected the ...
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Adventure story involving island "Tombuktu"
My grandfather died more than 30 years ago, but before that he used to tell us countless stories.
One of them was an adventure story, involving a European (?) arriving on an island named "...
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Series of teen/children's books about stories from the historical religions of different countries, 80s or before
I'm looking for a great series of books I read in the mid- to late 80s, in the UK.
They were approximately A4 sized, hardback, about an inch thick, with colourful painted or drawn dust covers (the ...
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Looking for a British childrens book, I think from the 1950s, called "C-for-Charlie"
I remember, when I was very young in the 1960s, reading an already-tattered book called (I think) "C-for-Charlie". The plot was about a boy who discovered a Gremlin -- C-for-Charlie -- who ...
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Looking for a children's book series with three main characters and horses
I read this series around ten years ago, give or take a few years. There are three main characters, all girls. One of their names was either Lucy or Lulu, but started with an L. There are three horses....
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Novel where a girl finds a book of drawings (I think from someone in a coma) and it inspires her and her friends to do criminal art
I think I read this around 2020. I can vividly recall where I was when I was reading it, an event space next to my town's pool and community library (I was completing reading the book so I could check ...
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Power dynamics between Krogstad and Nora in A Doll's House
I have been studying the text A Doll's House, and was wondering how to analyse the power dynamics between Krogstad and Nora in the play.
Would most say that Krogstad in act 1, despite having the ...
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How strong is Saitama? [closed]
We all know Saitama from One-Punch Man and his incredible strength to one-shot all of his opponents. After reading chapters 166–168, where Saitama fights against cosmic Garou, we see a panel ...
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What is the meaning of 'in the note'?
It's from Edith Wharton's "Afterward", a short story published in 1910.
I can't figure out the real meaning of 'in the note' in the paragraph below.
But when she dipped into the damp heat ...
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A novel written in computer code
When looking up strange novels of fiction some years ago, I think I heard of one that was written all in computer code.
But if it really exists, my guess at the right search terms aren't finding it?
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Are there any notes on the plot of Netochka Nezvanova?
I just finished reading Fyodor Dostoevsky’s work Netochka Nezvanova, and I am left a bit sad that it is over. Primarily since I want to know how the book ends, I am aware that Dostoevsky never ...
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Looking for an old children’s book that has a monster eating children
I’m in my 30s and checked out this really old (old back then) book all the time. It was something about a monster who ate kids, I think, and the monster always said “yada yada yada psu psu psu” or ...
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