2021年3月15日 · No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know ...

2017年7月4日 · At first sight that seemed impossible, because no one would be left to tell the tale, so I would have to alter it to a certain extent. It seemed to me that I could make a perfectly good play of it by one modification of the original story.

No one could touch her while he was alive and ruler of his lands, but the minute him dead, her family and his get together and exile her to that little island to starve to death. Send her away with two sweet-and-sour, milk chocolate pickney; me in her belly and Caliban at her breast.

The publishing house of the Komsomol was one of the few venues that would touch SF, the Strugatskies decided to write a story about a Komsomol in space. It's possible the censors were miffed because the story was too political for the young minds they imagined the audience to be.

2022年8月16日 · To what does ‘it’ refer in "Part of Me" by Kensington? What is "a part of me"? It is a part of me And it breaks my heart to see I was a part of you When no one else could be

2023年1月15日 · There may be a lot more to it. There's Circe's mythical island of Aeaea, which may be the real island Ponza (past Naples, but there was a storm!); the island of Marettimo which is very nicely located for a Tempest-related hypothesis and was also an important observation point for ships sailing between North Africa and Italy; the tradition of stregheria in Sicily and …

2024年12月13日 · Gives necessary motion. One, intent, O’erlooks the work: the carded wool, he says, Is smoothly lapp’d around those cylinders, Which, gently turning, yield it to yon cirque Of upright spindles, which, with rapid whirl Spin out, in long extent, an even twine. John Dyer (1757). The Fleece, book 3, lines 291–302. London: R. and J. Dodsley.

2024年12月27日 · "From one who is no longer of this world." Christie, Agatha. "The Chocolate Box." 1923. Poirot Investigates. 1925. New Bantam Edition. New York: Bantam, 1970, 6th printing 1978. pp. 184–198. Quote is from p. 195. Accessed at archive.org 27 December 2024. Hercule Poirot was introduced (by Virginie Mesnard) to the household as a journalist.

2024年4月26日 · It looks like first you have to tie a person to the middle ram, and then tie two rams to that ram with the person underneath. The tied person can't tie outer rams by themself. They need someone else to do it. Odysseus, being the last, had no one to secure him with two outer rams. Or even properly tie to the underside.

2018年5月27日 · One of the people at Lebannon's court is Seppel, a wizard from Paln, whom many people try to avoid (my emphasis): Paln, the greatest island west of Havnor, had the reputation of being an uncanny place. The Pelnish spoke Hardic with a peculiar accent, using many words of their own. (...) Their wizards did not go to Roke for their training.