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Dumb English major trying to reinvent himself as a coder.

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Was Odysseus considered unfaithful to his wife in the Odyssey?
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Since when has Shakespeare's "Scottish play" been considered unlucky?
Feb 23, 2021
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Could you actually go around the world in 80 days?
Feb 24, 2017
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Jordan's line about intimate parties in The Great Gatsby?
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Was Paradise Lost the first major work of literature to give "sympathy for the devil"?
Feb 9, 2017
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Did Philip Larkin use a swearword while quoting from Pym's Excellent Women?
Jan 28, 2024
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What does "Funnies" refer to?
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When and why did "No man is an island" start being regarded as a poem?
Mar 15, 2021
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No mayonnaise in Ireland?
Mar 21, 2021
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What does "the horse and buggy was not going the way of the horse and buggy" mean?
Nov 21, 2020
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What is the equivalent in English of the French "pipotron", which refers to meaningless filler content that looks like it was written by a bot?
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C char array initialization: what happens if there are less characters in the string literal than the array size?
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LinkedList Struct Typedef in C
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What would cause the peel of a lime to turn yellow?