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Arts & Literature
Welcome To Arts & Literature where we try to answer questions of a scholarly nature.If you are looking for information about books then head to Books & Authors. The Arts section covers all sorts of topics like theatre, exhibitions, paintings and much more.
does anyone know where bottcelli's la mappa dell inferno is displayed. I assumed in Florence but an find no reference to it. I have seen some of botticellis works including he birth of venus I think I...
Good morning, http:// www.gua rdian.c o.uk/bo oks/201 3/jun/1 5/iain- banks-t he-fina l-inter view Banks' last interview shows some real spirit. I've only read the Wasp Factory, but I quite fancy picking up...
What's your favourite nonsense poem? I like the Jabberwocky. `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the...
What is your favorite horror ?
I've had an urge to use the above having accumulated a bunch of 1960s/70s SLRs over the last year or two. I've been shooting digital for about ten years and am not planning to give it up but I want to...
Badly written, ridiculous plotting.
I can't put it down!...
I have tickets to go to the Secret Garden Fesitval but now I'm thinking its a bit 'way out' for me. I dont know any of the bands and Im not really into big time partying and drinking. Im thinking of...
The signature looks like TIM DAHL, but I'm not certain. It was a print from Athena, about 10+ years ago.
Trying to see what else he has done
http:// img835. imagesh ack.us/ img835/ 6753/tk wq.jpg...
Hello, I'm adoring fast knits at the moment and mostly animals/small toy animals. Is there a book for animals that I can knit within an hour? I've had a look around and Teeny-Tiny Mochimochi by Anna...
Just finished this book and knew the plot as it unfolded. I think it has been done on TV. Can anyone recall seeing it? It probably had a different title. The story was extremely unlikely but a page...
Any suggestions for adults?
Has any ABer read this book? I was quite looking forward to it (their relationship always held such romanticism) but as time goes on I'm disliking this woman more and more and thinking thank goodness,...
Please help me, need to find the poem about a shaggy dog walking thru town, has anyone seen it OR something to that effect. Heard it as a child many years ago and need help to find out more Please...
Hello, everyone! In Sherwood Anderson's book 'Winesburg, Ohio' (see link http:// www.ele ctronpr ess.com /freebo oks2/wi nesburg _ohio.p df), there is a short story in which some of the characters use a kind...
If a picture could paint a thousand words, what would it say about you?
Many thanks in advance.
Spoony...
If you are in to art, this is amazing - Van Gogh
http:// www.wim p.com/p ainting slife/...
can subsequent chapters in a book ever be a continuation of the same scene, or does a new chapter always have to mean a new scenario each time?
I'm trying (and failing) to track down a poem by Yevtushenko that has "Did Churchill win the 2nd world war, was no-one else involved in it. Help appreciated or I'll have to settle for wayward memory....
Could you please help me by finishing the poem which starts as follows:- "What is this that roareth thus? Can it be a motor bus? Yes, the noise and hideous hum Indicat motorem bum...." (I remember...
I have read many books with the word gaol meaning jail, but when I put gaol down in a word puzzle it wouldn't accept it saying it was not in the dictionary why is this anyone know