“Q” is the hypothetical source used by synoptic evangelists Matthew and Luke.
Never found, it is believed to contain the sayings and stories that Matthew and Luke, but not Mark, share.
The term comes from German Quelle, or “source.”
The Greek ships are enumerated in Book II of Homer’s Iliad.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) wrote, “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive”, not Shakespeare.
Melville’s model of passive resistance Bartleby the Scrivener calmly replies to his boss, “I would prefer not to.” The short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” was first published anonymously in Putnam’s Magazine in 1853.
The name of Rochester’s house in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre is Thornfield Hall.
Paul Gauguin’s life is the basis for W. Somerset Maugham’s novel The Moon and Sixpence (1919). In the novel, Charles Strickland is a London stockbroker who leaves his family to paint in the South Seas.
George Orwell’s real name was Eric Arthur Blair.