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Matt Thrower
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I started college studying biology and literature, even though everyone told me it was a bad combination.

Eventually, biology won.

My participation here is an attempt to find out what might have happened had it lost.

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Why is there so much technical detail of whaling included in Moby-Dick?
Feb 7, 2017
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Why is there so much technical detail of whaling included in Moby-Dick?
Feb 7, 2017
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Why must "she" perform impossible tasks in order to be "a true love of mine" in "Scarborough Fair"?
Jan 29, 2024
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How did Shakespeare get away with staging witchcraft in his plays such as Othello, Macbeth, or The Tempest?
May 13, 2020
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If Tolkien disliked allegory, why are there so many allegorical readings of The Lord of the Rings?
Jan 26, 2017
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How could Thorin and co. journey all the way to Erebor without discussing how to deal with Smaug?
Jun 20, 2020
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How did Leo Tolstoy approve Maude's English translation of War and Peace? Did he speak good English already?
Feb 24, 2023
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Why are all the schoolchildren referred to as guns in Clint Smith's "The Gun"?
Mar 30, 2023
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"Miss" as a form of address to a married teacher in Bethan Roberts' "My Policeman"
Mar 17, 2023
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If Tolkien disliked allegory, why are there so many allegorical readings of The Lord of the Rings?
Jan 26, 2017
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When and why did orcs go green?
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Did the UK homicide rate go up after handgun ownership was banned?