In chapter 3 of The Adventures of Pinocchio, Geppetto shapes the piece of wood Mastro Cherry had given him into a marionette. When he creates the nose, it starts growing uncontrollably: After th...

The Pinocchio paradox arises when Pinocchio says: "My nose grows" From Wikipedia, Pinocchio is known for having a short nose that becomes longer when he is under stress, especially while telling a...

What happens next is up to the story-teller, because Pinocchio is a fictional character whose world is not constrained to any particular laws of physics (hence the quite literally fabled properties of his nose) …

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Why does Pinocchio's nose grow? In chapter 3 of The Adventures of Pinocchio, Geppetto shapes the piece of wood Mastro Cherry had given him into a marionette. When he creates the nose, it starts …

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One of the challenges of translating L'Étranger is how to render its past tenses. Novels and autobiographies traditionally used passé simple (e.g. "elle mourut": she died) to represent events in …

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