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Why call them the "little pointy hours"?
This is the start of James Parker's "An Ode to Being Read To", which is in October 2022's The Atlantic.
I fixed my insomnia with whiskey and audiobooks.
Seriously. I was a terrible non-...
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What did Virginia Woolf mean by "walked on the past the flower–bed" in Kew Gardens?
From Virginia Woolf's short story "Kew Gardens":
They walked on the past the flower-bed, now walking four abreast, and soon diminished in size among the trees and looked half transparent as ...
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Why are pronouns used in this way in Nalo Hopkinson's "Shift"?
I just read the short story "Shift" by Nalo Hopkinson, which is freely available online. It's a modern, Caribbean-themed story inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest.
One thing which confused me on ...
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What did G. K. Chesterton mean by this sentence from the first chapter of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'?
Walking in wind and sun in the very landscape of liberty, he was still young enough to remember his politics and not merely try to forget them.
I want to make sure that "the very landscape of ...
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What did G. K. Chesterton mean by these two paragraphs from the first chapter of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'?
'Jenkins,' he repeated. 'Surely you don't mean Jefferson Jenkins, the social reformer? I mean the man who's fighting for the new cottage-estate scheme. It would be as interesting to meet him as any ...
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What is the rhetorical purpose of the description of Miss Emily?
I have been asked this question and I am finding it difficult to pinpoint an answer. I presume it must be c) or e) but I cannot decide. An explanation of the correct choice would be very helpful.
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