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| panguitch |
Original Post: Mar 26 '07, 9:50 am |
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Game 4: Favorite Quotes
In this game you offer a favorite quote from a book. The person who identifies the book gets to offer their own quote.
I'll start off:
"our youth was what we made it,
something to fritter and to burn,
when hourly we ourselves betrayed it,
and it deceived us in return"
-Andy
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| hadassahchana |
Posted: Mar 26 '07, 10:04 pm |
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RE: Game 4: Favorite Quotes
Oh - from Evgeny Oneigin, by Aleksander Sergeivitch! A picture of my friend in university under the statue was one of my favourite wedding presents.
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| quasar |
Posted: Mar 27 '07, 3:36 am |
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RE: Game 4: Favorite Quotes
Give us a new one, Cindy |
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| hadassahchana |
Posted: Mar 29 '07, 1:23 pm |
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RE: Game 4: Favorite Quotes
Oops-I forgot this one was mine.
" Believe me, my young frined, there is nothing- absolutely nothing -half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." |
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| dramastef |
Posted: Mar 30 '07, 6:05 am |
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RE: Game 4: Favorite Quotes
Quote: hadassahchana " Believe me, my young frined, there is nothing- absolutely nothing -half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."
Ah, the Water Rat from Wind in the Willows Kenneth Something... Graham?
From one of my favorite books, and very appropriate for this group:
"From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood... On the day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived."
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| panguitch |
Posted: Apr 03 '07, 12:09 pm |
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RE: Game 4: Favorite Quotes
Quote: dramastef "From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood... On the day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived."
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty White?
Are books our friends or our lovers? Or friends with privileges?
Here's a quote that brings out the sap in me:
"Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name."
-Andy |
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| quasar |
Posted: Apr 03 '07, 3:57 pm (Updated: Apr 03 '07, 4:13 pm) |
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RE: Game 4: Favorite Quotes
Betty Smith.
Yours is The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Be back in a sec...
[Edited to add the new quote]
AN UNSPEAKABLE HORROR seized me. There was a darkness; then a dizzy, sickening sensation of sight that was not like seeing; I saw a Line that was no Line; Space that was not Space: I was myself, and not myself. When I could find voice, I shrieked loud in agony, "Either this is madness or it is Hell." |
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| Redlass |
Posted: Apr 18 '07, 12:29 pm |
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RE: Game 4: Favorite Quotes
Neither--it is knowledge. It's the Flatlands, right? By um, Abbott?
Were you able to get through reading that? I never was.
How about (and I hope I'm not paraphasing and I'm uncertain of the punctuation):
"Because it is my name. Because I cannot have another in my life. Because I lie and sign myself to lies. Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang. How can I live without my name? I have given you my soul. Leave me my name!"
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| quasar |
Posted: Apr 20 '07, 4:35 pm |
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RE: Game 4: Favorite Quotes
Flatland, yes. It's one of my favorite books, actually. Then again, I'm a math geek who only sometimes masquerades as a book grump. |
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| panguitch |
Posted: Apr 23 '07, 3:53 pm |
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RE: Game 4: Favorite Quotes
Quote: Redlass "Because it is my name. Because I cannot have another in my life. Because I lie and sign myself to lies. Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang. How can I live without my name? I have given you my soul. Leave me my name!"
Miller - The Crucible
Next:
"Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?"
And if you can guess that, for bonus points maybe you can also guess this, on which it was based:
"Where is the horse gone? Where the rider?
Where the giver of treasure?
Where are the seats at the feast?
Where are the revels in the hall?
Alas for the bright cup!
Alas for the mailed warrior!
Alas for the splendour of the prince!
How that time has passed away,
dark under the cover of night,
as if it had never been!"
-Andy |
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| AdaDavis |
Posted: Apr 24 '07, 11:55 am |
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RE: Game 4: Favorite Quotes
Quote: panguitch
"Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?"
And if you can guess that, for bonus points maybe you can also guess this, on which it was based:
"Where is the horse gone? Where the rider?
Where the giver of treasure?
Where are the seats at the feast?
Where are the revels in the hall?
Alas for the bright cup!
Alas for the mailed warrior!
Alas for the splendour of the prince!
How that time has passed away,
dark under the cover of night,
as if it had never been!"
The first was easy: It's the Rohirrim from LOTR. I had to think about the Bonus Question. I know Tolkien based the Riders of Rohan on a lot of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse literature. ( I think he referred to the Rohirrim as "Vikings on horses" or some such thing.) That meant he probably took it from something in Old English. I had to cheat a bit with Google, looking for Old English poems, to find the one called The Wanderer . Do I get a penalty for cheating?
New quote:
"In their ceaseless experimenting, they had learned to store knowledge in the structure of space itself, and to preserve their thoughts for eternity in frozen lattices of light. They could become creatures of radiation, free at last from the tyranny of matter.
Into pure energy, therefore, they presently transformed themselves; and on a thousand worlds, the empty shells they had discarded twitched for a while in a mindless dance of death, then crumbled into rust.
Now they were lords of the galaxy, and beyond the reach of time. They could rove at will among the stars, and sink like a subtle mist through the very interstices of space. But despite their godlike powers, they had not wholly forgotten their origin, in the warm slime of a vanished sea."
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| scmrak |
Posted: Apr 24 '07, 1:20 pm (Updated: Apr 24 '07, 1:20 pm) |
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RE: Game 4: Favorite Quotes
Quote: AdaDavis "In their ceaseless experimenting, they had learned to store knowledge... You're six years late for your little odyssey.
"His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god."
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| panguitch |
Posted: Apr 24 '07, 2:27 pm |
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RE: Game 4: Favorite Quotes
Quote: AdaDavis Do I get a penalty for cheating?
Naw, bonus questions are certainly fair game for cheating. Now the question is can you say it in Old English?
Quote: scmrak You're six years late for your little odyssey.
Clever.
Quote: scmrak "His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god."
I'm feeling very smug because I know this even though I've never read the book.
Zelazny - Lord of Light
Next up:
"The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there."
I'm starting a stopwatch right now to see how long it takes quasar.
-Andy |
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| scmrak |
Posted: Apr 28 '07, 7:11 am |
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RE: Game 4: Favorite Quotes
Quote: panguitch ...I've never read ... Lord of Light You should be ashamed of yourself, Andy. Stuff all those fantasies you read by Genèvieve Bujold or whatever her name is in a box and don't open it again until you've finished Lord of Light - twice.
Quote: panguitch "The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there." Genèvieve's sister-in-law Lois McMaster. Can't tell you which book. Don't care, either.
"Sorrow floats."
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| panguitch |
Posted: Apr 30 '07, 9:02 am |
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RE: Game 4: Favorite Quotes
Quote: scmrak You should be ashamed of yourself, Andy. Stuff all those fantasies you read by Genèvieve Bujold or whatever her name is in a box and don't open it again until you've finished Lord of Light - twice.
Hey, you put it on my wish list once. (I think it was you.) Then eeps went and screwed everything up and my wish list disappeared. I can hardly be held responsible.
Quote: scmrak Genèvieve's sister-in-law Lois McMaster. Can't tell you which book. Don't care, either.
"Sorrow floats."
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rex (OK, OK - it's A Civil Campaign)
I knew it! You've secretly been reading those romantic space operas all along, haven't you Rex?
"Sorrow Floats"? Isn't that a song by Voice of the Beehive, from the album Let It Bee? Good album.
I guess you mean something else, though. Isn't there a book with that title? Is that the quote you have in mind?
-Andy |
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| scmrak |
Posted: Apr 30 '07, 2:19 pm (Updated: Apr 30 '07, 2:19 pm) |
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RE: Game 4: Favorite Quotes
Quote: panguitch I knew it! You've secretly been reading those romantic space operas all along, haven't you Rex? I confess only to having a dab hand with google.
Quote: panguitch "Sorrow Floats"? Isn't that a song by Voice of the Beehive, from the album Let It Bee? Good album.
I guess you mean something else, though. Isn't there a book with that title? Is that the quote you have in mind? May be a book with that title, and may be a song of that name on an album, but it is indeed a quote from a book by a well-known author (not some frustrated bodice-ripper-writer who barely knows the diference twixt sabre and broadsword). A hint: his first name's John.
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| quasar |
Posted: May 06 '07, 9:07 am |
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Quote: panguitch I'm starting a stopwatch right now to see how long it takes quasar.
You would post that while I was off being sick and dealing with work deadlines and such. Oh well.
Not my favorite quote from the book, but certainly a good one.
Before you ask, I'm not sure what my favorite is. That book has so many great lines. I'm very partial to Enrique's poetry, though, as that's definitely something I'd do.
Maybe "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards."
or "educated is what you aim to be going out, not going in"
or "if you wanted to say no, why didn't you. it wouldn't have been polite you could have said 'no, thank you'"
or...well, I could go on but I'll spare you all. |
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