Lena by qntm does just that, telling the story of the first copy of a human brain uploaded to a computer, and the subsequent consequences, in under 2000 words. Written in the form of a Wikipedia article, it describes how the digital brain has been repeatedly copied and pu...
When Jews were expelled from Portugal, many moved East to form the Sephardic community we all know, but as many Jews, perhaps 100,000, moved West to the Americas in the 16th century. Today it is estimated that a quarter of Hispanic Catholics in the Americas derive from Jewish stock, with...
“The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” We have extended the wordnestto apply to lots of nest-like things but many of these have their own names. A wasp’s nest is called a vespiary and a bee’s nest ...
the time and place of occurrence in fairy tales are not defined. The characteristics of fairy tales include the appearance of fantastic elements in the form of talking animals, magic, witches and giants, knights and heroes. It wasn't until the 17th century that fairy tales in Europe were wri...
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That first appearance in English was recorded in 1610 but theOEDalso says that “nitch” was the typical pronunciation well into the twentieth century and it wasn’t until 1991 that a pronouncing dictionary first pointed out that “neesh” had become the dominant form in British English. ...
A blog about books and short stories I read. Home of the annual #DealMeIn short story reading challenge
There are a couple of things to note. First everyone will notice that I am completely silent through the whole thing. Trust me, I had things to say, but apparently the producers didn’t believe it was interesting enough. Plus an extra humiliation … they misspell my name. ...
the early years of the 20th century. Many take place in New York City, and deal for the most part with ordinary people: clerks, policemen, waitresses. Fundamentally a product of his time, O. Henry's work provides one of the best English examples of catching the entire flavor of an age...
We get so tied up in the Why or the How. We forget a far more important question- Where? We start with WHERE. Even that word “question” is loaded with the same insight because it contains a “Quest,” which wikipedia calls “a long or arduous search for something.” To ask a que...