I've always been surprised by how many requests there are on Reddit asking for hyperspecific plot elements. As if they're looking for something tailor made for their current situation. My reaction nearly always a variant of the Disraeli approach, the only way you'll get that is to write it yourself

It is one of the nicest Brill covers I've seen.

If anyone is interested in buying a copy, it just so happens that University of Washington Press is having their annual end-of-year sale with 40% off. uwapress.uw.edu/holiday-sale/

Interesting. I’ve wondered about this word before. The Sinologist Peter Boodberg called his short, self-published writings “cedules .”

Me too. I saw it when it first came out in the theaters and seven-year old me was absolutely taken with Robin Hood Fox.

In E.M. Foner's EarthCent books, about planetary ambassadors on a space station run by an all-powerful (and interfering) AI, there is a 'committee committee' - a committee that exists solely to report on other committees. I proposed the idea to my director and barely made it out of her office alive.

Actually, one of the things I really like about the Tyler translation (not that I've finished reading it) are the little line drawings explaining objects mentioned in the text.