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Hello all! I have a question on what the heck kind of a...thing...I'm writing. It's set up almost like a screenplay or scriptment, where everything is presented in detail, save for the dialogue, which is largely paraphrased, and the inclusion of italicized, stream-of-consciousness thoughts. Some of the descriptions also tend to use very odd metaphors. So, what IS this thing? It's like a weird blend of scriptment, poetry, and novel, but whenever I try to pull it one way or the other, it just seems to lose its honesty and the message I'm trying to convey. Is this a funky new fiction type, or am I pretty much in a sinking boat? Because I really do enjoy writing it... Thanks!
Update: Thank you to everyone! I consulted with another person too and they suggested Dracula-style as well, so I'll give that a try (with my own author's voice). Thanks so much once again! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.46.148.173 ( talk) 20:53, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
74.46.148.173 ( talk) 23:22, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
From the testimony, written in 1946, of a Jewish girl from Poland whose family had fled eastward early in WWII: in around 1943 the family was permitted to relocate to "Makrous in the region of Saratov" where her widowed mother worked in a kolkhoz (and her two brothers were drafted and subsequently killed at the front in '44 and '45, the fate of their father in '41). I haven't succeeed in identifying a locale of this name; perhaps it's misspelled? (I don't have access to the original Russian-language document.) Suggestions welcome. -- Deborahjay ( talk) 08:38, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Where can I find genocide curves (graphs)? I mean by number of deaths (ie time would be x, deaths y), starting with the first deaths on the way to snowballing to the larger genocide? Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.122.57.251 ( talk • contribs)
First of all, Israeli leadership is not a race or ethnicity, whereas Palestinians are. So it is impossible to be racist when talking about what Israeli leadership thinks or does, and using this term about me is a personal attack and should be removed. Israeli leadership means just that: the leadership of a country. There is no inkling of racism in any of my statements.
Secondly people accused me of being a troll for "qualifying" my question with allusions that I didn't actually soapbox on about. The reference desk is NOT a place to try to convince people of anything, for me to start listing the ways in which my stellar references show the highest levels of Israeli leadership has clear dehumanizing ethnic intent of the Palestinians would be just that: soapboxing. I'm not here to start a debate. If you are interested you could simply Google it, using the very terms I used.
Israel is a country, like America, France, China, etc. Please, please, please, people, don't identify a country's leadership with its people, as the poster above did when he said claims about Israel's leadership are claims about "groups". The thinking that country's leadership=its ethnic people is the exact reason Germans would not have critized Hitler: doing so would be "anti-German".
Just my two cents. Pleaes don't make more personal attacks against me, since I am not soapboxing and not trying to convince anyone of anything. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.122.57.251 ( talk • contribs)
I feel that so much of the above material including my responses are wildly inappropriate for this page, since my question remains unanswered and is now buried from those who would know the answer by a bunch of inappropriate needless junk. Here, I propose that the above discussions exist only on the talk page and not here as an eyesore to everyone. I propose a version like this one. Please let me know below if I have your support in moving spurious debate to the talk page, where it belongs, and leaving the (unanswered) question here. 79.122.75.197 ( talk) 18:36, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
As I'm going through my Mozart collection, I just discovered an unfamiliar abbreviation: a piano piece labelled "allegro and allegretto in F major, KV Anh. 135". I'm assuming that this is the same as the "Sonata in F for Keyboard" listed in Köchel catalogue with that abbreviation; but what does "Anh." mean? Talk page discussion suggests that it may mean "appendix" or "addendum", but the person posting that comment sounded somewhat uncertain, and no source is provided. Google didn't reveal anything when I looked; can someone get a good source for this? Nyttend ( talk) 16:34, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Dear all,
I am researching a reference to the Uhlans in Pushkin's <<Метель>>. I know about Father Milon, War and Peace, etc. - but in the back of my mind lies a memory of a short story which mentions the Uhlan whose name I cannot remember.
The story involves two men who meet. One goes to the other's appartment, and there sees pictures and a uniform from when his friend was in the Uhlan, over which the friend becomes very emotional. The story is definitely in English, but I can remember very little more.
Sorry for what poor information I can provide, but I would be deeply grateful if this rang a bell for anyone!
Thanks,
86.161.65.228 ( talk) 19:33, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I reverted vandalism on Dev Patel's article and I read (after reverting vandalism) that he is referred to be British Indian. My question is: Is he considered a British Indian because of his ethnicity or because he has dual citizenship?. Thanks and forgive any spelling mistake, as you can see, I am not native. Kisses all. -- 201.254.73.58 ( talk) 20:30, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Does anyone know the title of a 1960s/70s sci fi book in which a couple of men carry out an experiment and visit the afterlife, which appeared to be like living in rural Norfolk in the 1950s?
Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trellism ( talk • contribs) 20:34, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
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Hello all! I have a question on what the heck kind of a...thing...I'm writing. It's set up almost like a screenplay or scriptment, where everything is presented in detail, save for the dialogue, which is largely paraphrased, and the inclusion of italicized, stream-of-consciousness thoughts. Some of the descriptions also tend to use very odd metaphors. So, what IS this thing? It's like a weird blend of scriptment, poetry, and novel, but whenever I try to pull it one way or the other, it just seems to lose its honesty and the message I'm trying to convey. Is this a funky new fiction type, or am I pretty much in a sinking boat? Because I really do enjoy writing it... Thanks!
Update: Thank you to everyone! I consulted with another person too and they suggested Dracula-style as well, so I'll give that a try (with my own author's voice). Thanks so much once again! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.46.148.173 ( talk) 20:53, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
74.46.148.173 ( talk) 23:22, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
From the testimony, written in 1946, of a Jewish girl from Poland whose family had fled eastward early in WWII: in around 1943 the family was permitted to relocate to "Makrous in the region of Saratov" where her widowed mother worked in a kolkhoz (and her two brothers were drafted and subsequently killed at the front in '44 and '45, the fate of their father in '41). I haven't succeeed in identifying a locale of this name; perhaps it's misspelled? (I don't have access to the original Russian-language document.) Suggestions welcome. -- Deborahjay ( talk) 08:38, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Where can I find genocide curves (graphs)? I mean by number of deaths (ie time would be x, deaths y), starting with the first deaths on the way to snowballing to the larger genocide? Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.122.57.251 ( talk • contribs)
First of all, Israeli leadership is not a race or ethnicity, whereas Palestinians are. So it is impossible to be racist when talking about what Israeli leadership thinks or does, and using this term about me is a personal attack and should be removed. Israeli leadership means just that: the leadership of a country. There is no inkling of racism in any of my statements.
Secondly people accused me of being a troll for "qualifying" my question with allusions that I didn't actually soapbox on about. The reference desk is NOT a place to try to convince people of anything, for me to start listing the ways in which my stellar references show the highest levels of Israeli leadership has clear dehumanizing ethnic intent of the Palestinians would be just that: soapboxing. I'm not here to start a debate. If you are interested you could simply Google it, using the very terms I used.
Israel is a country, like America, France, China, etc. Please, please, please, people, don't identify a country's leadership with its people, as the poster above did when he said claims about Israel's leadership are claims about "groups". The thinking that country's leadership=its ethnic people is the exact reason Germans would not have critized Hitler: doing so would be "anti-German".
Just my two cents. Pleaes don't make more personal attacks against me, since I am not soapboxing and not trying to convince anyone of anything. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.122.57.251 ( talk • contribs)
I feel that so much of the above material including my responses are wildly inappropriate for this page, since my question remains unanswered and is now buried from those who would know the answer by a bunch of inappropriate needless junk. Here, I propose that the above discussions exist only on the talk page and not here as an eyesore to everyone. I propose a version like this one. Please let me know below if I have your support in moving spurious debate to the talk page, where it belongs, and leaving the (unanswered) question here. 79.122.75.197 ( talk) 18:36, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
As I'm going through my Mozart collection, I just discovered an unfamiliar abbreviation: a piano piece labelled "allegro and allegretto in F major, KV Anh. 135". I'm assuming that this is the same as the "Sonata in F for Keyboard" listed in Köchel catalogue with that abbreviation; but what does "Anh." mean? Talk page discussion suggests that it may mean "appendix" or "addendum", but the person posting that comment sounded somewhat uncertain, and no source is provided. Google didn't reveal anything when I looked; can someone get a good source for this? Nyttend ( talk) 16:34, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Dear all,
I am researching a reference to the Uhlans in Pushkin's <<Метель>>. I know about Father Milon, War and Peace, etc. - but in the back of my mind lies a memory of a short story which mentions the Uhlan whose name I cannot remember.
The story involves two men who meet. One goes to the other's appartment, and there sees pictures and a uniform from when his friend was in the Uhlan, over which the friend becomes very emotional. The story is definitely in English, but I can remember very little more.
Sorry for what poor information I can provide, but I would be deeply grateful if this rang a bell for anyone!
Thanks,
86.161.65.228 ( talk) 19:33, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I reverted vandalism on Dev Patel's article and I read (after reverting vandalism) that he is referred to be British Indian. My question is: Is he considered a British Indian because of his ethnicity or because he has dual citizenship?. Thanks and forgive any spelling mistake, as you can see, I am not native. Kisses all. -- 201.254.73.58 ( talk) 20:30, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Does anyone know the title of a 1960s/70s sci fi book in which a couple of men carry out an experiment and visit the afterlife, which appeared to be like living in rural Norfolk in the 1950s?
Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trellism ( talk • contribs) 20:34, 25 March 2009 (UTC)