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Are "very short stories" common in Arabic literature, or specifically an Alomar thing?
The topic challenge proposal for Osama Alomar's work says:
Osama Alomar is a Syrian author living in the United States, who primarily writes "very short stories," a style that's perhaps ...
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Influences on Osama Alomar?
I've read Osama Alomar's entire collection The Teeth of the Comb and Other Stories, plus some other very short stories of his that I've found around the internet (thanks Mithical for the links). Their ...
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Why does the woman Humanity drop dead at the end of "Do Not Forget the Poor"?
Osama Alomar's very short story "Do Not Forget the Poor" is (in its entirety) as follows, in its English translation by "C. J. Collins with the author":
Even before I arrived at ...
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"The Flag and the Fire" by Osama Alomar
Osama Alomar's very short story "The Flag and the Fire" is (in its entirety) as follows, in its English translation by "C. J. Collins with the author":
A flag hanging slack from ...
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Why does the arrogance melt in the pocket?
Osama Alomar's very short story "Arrogance" is (in its entirety) as follows, in its English translation by "C. J. Collins with the author":
My wealthy brother lent me a sum of ...
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What does "he got plucked" mean in "Jane Eyre"?
In Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, after the titular Jane survives her education at Lowood and decides to set out into the world, she receives an offer for a position as a governess. Before leaving for ...
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Are Osama Alomar's works available in the original Arabic?
This article contains an interesting account of the interaction between the Syrian-born writer Osama Alomar, and his American translator, C.J. Collins. When Alomar first came to America he worked as a ...
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Where did Hawthorne imitate Spenser?
As quoted in a different question, Carol V. Kaske says that Nathaniel Hawthorne was influenced by Edmund Spenser:
Spenser has been called "the poet's poet," in that his poetic effects yield ...
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Where did Melville imitate Spenser?
As quoted in a different question, Carol V. Kaske says that Herman Melville was influenced by Edmund Spenser:
Spenser has been called "the poet's poet," in that his poetic effects yield to ...
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Where did Charles Lamb call Spenser "the poet's poet"?
Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599) is often called "the poet's poet." Here are some examples across the decades. From a 1930s book review in the New York Times:
The poet's poet has been well ...
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Is something unusual going on with Alomar's sun/moon gendering, or is it just inconsistent translation?
I noticed an apparent inconsistency among some of Osama Alomar's very short stories:
In "The Harshness of the Sun", the sun is referred to as "him" while "she" is used ...
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What is the textual history of the verses prefixed to the Aeneid in Renaissance editions?
A. C. Hamilton says that the first four lines of the Proem to Book I of Spenser's The Faerie Qveene
imitate verses prefixed to the opening lines of Renaissance editions of Virgil's Aeneid, alluding ...
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When's the first kid that survived by themselves after a plane crash?
This 1972 book answer mentions this list of 108 Survival, plane crash -- children's_young adult fiction of varying details, which contains and reminded me of 1985's Trial by wilderness which I could'...
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What is a "spudger" in John Donlan's "Noise"? (No, it's not a tool)
In John Donlan's poem "Noise" (from the collection Spirit Engine 2008) he writes:
Weeds cozy in sidewalk cracks;
grimy spudgers scavenging Starbucks crumbs;
He is a Canadian poet who seems ...
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"Man and the Law of Nature" by Osama Alomar
The very short story "Man and the Law of Nature" by Osama Alomar is (in its entirety) as follows, in the English translation by "C. J. Collins with the author":
Man arrested the ...
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