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kothad @kothad (29) • India 3 May 08

shall we start a literary quiz? if you can answer my question you can ask the next one(with enough clues!!) and the person who can answer that can ask the next question. if no one answers within 48hrs or so the quiz master should...

literary quiz

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kothad your answer is correct patronus. now its ur turn to ask the question.

23 May 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 3 May 08

shall we start a literary quiz? if you can answer my question you can ask the next one(with enough clues!!) and the person who can answer that can ask the next question. if no one answers within 48hrs or so the quiz master should...

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kothad the answer is The Waste Land, by T.s Eliot. This poem is called the bible of the modernist movement. next question: Name the novel written by Conrad which was accused as a racist work by the African writer Chinua Achebe?

20 May 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 3 May 08

shall we start a literary quiz? if you can answer my question you can ask the next one(with enough clues!!) and the person who can answer that can ask the next question. if no one answers within 48hrs or so the quiz master should...

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kothad ok. lets proceed assuming that he will come up with the correct answer to his question. now the next question who wrote these lines and identify the poem "April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of dead land, mixing Memory and desire..."

16 May 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 3 May 08

shall we start a literary quiz? if you can answer my question you can ask the next one(with enough clues!!) and the person who can answer that can ask the next question. if no one answers within 48hrs or so the quiz master should...

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kothad taface412, your turn to give the answer... no one seems to know.

13 May 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 3 May 08

shall we start a literary quiz? if you can answer my question you can ask the next one(with enough clues!!) and the person who can answer that can ask the next question. if no one answers within 48hrs or so the quiz master should...

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kothad as no one was able to answer my question... let me give you the correct answer. the novel was "Tin Drum" by Gunther Grass

13 May 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 3 May 08

shall we start a literary quiz? if you can answer my question you can ask the next one(with enough clues!!) and the person who can answer that can ask the next question. if no one answers within 48hrs or so the quiz master should...

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kothad i dont think my question is properly understood... those were clues to my question not choices. all you have to do is to identify the novel and the author.

11 May 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 3 May 08

shall we start a literary quiz? if you can answer my question you can ask the next one(with enough clues!!) and the person who can answer that can ask the next question. if no one answers within 48hrs or so the quiz master should...

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kothad it was a good question but the clue made it too simple!! the answer is ozymandias by shelley my question 1)it is a novel 2)author is a nobel prize winning german novelist and playwright 3)magic realism 4)1978 film adaptation 5)hero can break...

8 May 08

juliedomingo82 @juliedomingo82 (33) • Philippines 6 May 08

I consider myself as an open-minded person. But sometimes, I tend to think things in my own points of view. That sometimes... what I think is right may not be right to somebody but it doesn't really matter... as long as I think it...

absolute

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kothad there was a time when we believed that the world is made up of black and white...rather white/black,where one is defined by the other, that is white which is not black and vice versa...and that presupposes the virtue and purity of the white and its assumed...

6 May 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 3 May 08

shall we start a literary quiz? if you can answer my question you can ask the next one(with enough clues!!) and the person who can answer that can ask the next question. if no one answers within 48hrs or so the quiz master should...

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kothad ok guys... as nobody posted the next question here it comes who wrote these lines " life, like a dome of many coloured glass, stains the white radiance of eternity" options: a) wordsworth b) t.s eliot c) keats d) shelley

6 May 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 3 May 08

shall we start a literary quiz? if you can answer my question you can ask the next one(with enough clues!!) and the person who can answer that can ask the next question. if no one answers within 48hrs or so the quiz master should...

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kothad any way we got the answer...that was the point. but can we actually decide which book is better? who is the judge? and what is the yard stick? my point is judgement of a book is possible only in the personal level.so it is better not to argue. there would be...

5 May 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 3 May 08

shall we start a literary quiz? if you can answer my question you can ask the next one(with enough clues!!) and the person who can answer that can ask the next question. if no one answers within 48hrs or so the quiz master should...

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xiaowen187 @xiaowen187 (426) • China 16 Mar 08

Gone with the wind is the book i often read. I still remember that the first time it takes me only two days for me to finish it when I was just a junior school students.now i often take out the book and read two or three pages in...

reading

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kothad i cannot chose one...crime and punishment for the disturbance it gives you...old man and the sea for its simplicity and message...one hundred years of solitude for some unknown reasons...and so on...

18 Mar 08

SarahRiches @SarahRiches (33) 18 Mar 08

Im currently reading 'Tis by Frank McCourt. Its the sequel to Angelas Ashes and is very good so far!

mccourt

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kothad just now i am reading the novel Waiting For Barbarians by J.M Coetzee. it is an amzing novel. it shows how an empire is constructed and how it works and how the empire invents barbarians outside its boundary.

18 Mar 08

arjun999 @arjun999 (1004) • India 18 Mar 08

What do you think is the best movie of all time in all languages. I would really like your opinion.

all languages

all time best

best movie

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kothad Life is Beautiful is a fine movie. But can it be named the best movie ever made?(not to mention lotr or kal ho na ho!!!). just see Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman...or Bicycle Thief by De Sica or Modern Times by Chaplin or even Citizen Kane!! I must say that...

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kothad @kothad (29) • India 17 Mar 08

This is for the people who are interested in some serious literary discussions. Here we can share our knowledge on some relevant literary theories. I wish to start with structuralism which was an intellectual movement began in...

structuralism

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kothad And then he argues that meaning of words are relational. No word can be defined in isolation. The meaning of the word "hut" depends on its position in a syntagmatic chain(hovel-hut-house-mansion-palace) Mansion is a dwelling bigger and grander than a house...

18 Mar 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 17 Mar 08

This is for the people who are interested in some serious literary discussions. Here we can share our knowledge on some relevant literary theories. I wish to start with structuralism which was an intellectual movement began in...

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kothad The signifier and the signified...here we come to Saussure, the linguist. His arguments are primarily on three points. Firstly he argued that the meanings we give to words are purely arbitrary, that is the meanings are maintained by conventions only. There is...

18 Mar 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 17 Mar 08

how will you describe the love which was unreciprocated?

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VIKI10 @VIKI10 (6) • India 7 Mar 08

I feel that being single in life is good. And those who agree with me or do not post ur responses.

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kothad dont feel bad but i think you are a bit of an escapist wishing tobe single or feeling free being a single. i belive the repressed feeling of beeing hurt is sublimated or something(to speak in freudian terms!!lol!!). but mate...i do belive that being in love is...

17 Mar 08

kothad @kothad (29) • India 17 Mar 08

This is for the people who are interested in some serious literary discussions. Here we can share our knowledge on some relevant literary theories. I wish to start with structuralism which was an intellectual movement began in...

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ralph12345abc @ralph12345abc (1311) • India 16 Mar 08

which subject do you like studying and why? i like computers less study and more marks.

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kothad literature. the reason is so simple. i love reading fiction.

16 Mar 08

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