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22 Vendémiaire CCXIV (October 13, 2005)

(Literature) And You, You Can Read Me Anything

Here're the answers to last week's post:

  1. "What's it going to be then, eh?" — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
  2. There once was a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself—not just sometimes, but always. — Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth  (guessed by Nancy)
  3. I knew she was a virgin because she was able to ruffle the silken mane of my unicorn. — Harlan Ellison's "On the Downhill Side", the first story in the recent collection Troublemakers.  However, since it's a short story collection, and therefore doesn't have chapters, the alternate first line is taken from "That Kid's Gonna Wind Up In Jail!", which is the title of Ellison's introduction to the collection.
  4. It was love at first sight. — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
  5. In the mists before the Beginning, Fate and Chance cast lots to decide whose the Game should be; and he that won strode through the mists to MĀNA-YOOD-SUSHĀĪ and said: "Now make gods for Me, for I have won the cast and the Game is to be mine." — Lord Dunsany, The Gods of Pegāna
  6. All this happened, more or less. — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (guessed by happiestsadist)
  7. It was a nice day. — Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchet, Good Omens  (guessed by Nancy)
  8. Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair. — Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
  9. Mother died today. — Albert Camus, The Outsider (guessed by some alex)
  10. In my younger and more vulnerable years father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Posted by g026r at 09:15
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As I suspected -- I'm 2 for 10 out of those books:  Catch-22 and Good Omens.  Although a few more of them are on my list of things to read eventually.  When I'm commuting 2 or 3 hours a day in Toronto, I'll have lots of time to catch up.

Siteicon Posted by peterjm at 22 Vendémiaire CCXIV 13:03 (2005/10/13)
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