1) Probably Pope is refering to Nature as a work of God, the same way we refer to Art as the work of an artist / creator. If you look at art carefully, there are sometimes lots of symbols and mysteries, as intended by the artist. This is an

Hi, Then how would you interpret this 'drawings for children', Clive? The more narrowly a theory is defined by and agrees with experimental or observational facts, the more secure its status. It's rather as in those

Maybe you should hang out elsewhere, since you are not a writer, dislike us all, and have no literary aspirations. I work on my pages and have a deal perking. If this was a party, I'd be escorting you to the door. Go home. LOL. Your party

I'm discussing hyperbole first in order to help clarify what I mean by the phrase "rarely articulated rules" in my title. Also, I beg forgiveness for any poor grammar. I'm trying to articulate a rather difficult concept in a

Q1 - Yes, Henry James was a very famous American author. Q2 - Mexicans are to forgetting what the Jews are to remembering. This is making an analogy: It is associating "forgetting" with Mexicans, and "remembering" with Jews,

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I've taught at universities in real life and my course is available in 1100+ online. At one school I was ... not be "smarter" with good writers but clever in knowing what is effective with the end recipient of the words. I really

I thought a 'yardbird' was a dialectism for 'chicken', which ... called 'Yard' (I think Dizzy Gillespie often called him 'Yard'). OTOH, Noah and the boys (RHWUD) say "yardbird" means 1. a convict or

Prisons also have yards, and the term on its own suggests a meaning to me of something like "hard", "tough", similar to a "yardbird". I thought a 'yardbird' was a dialectism for 'chicken', which

Possibly the analogy works but I still suspect it's rooted more in marketing speak than technical descriptions. If it's the latter, it's a bit pretentious, doncha' think? (Pedantry thing: although many castles have Great Halls,