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blunder1983
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep... aka Blade Runner by Philip K Dick.
Into this wild abyss, the womb of nature and perhaps her grave... |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:56 am Post subject: |
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[I think some posters would not make good Lit teachers. When they put a quote to be identified on a test, they include a pithy one that includes a clue.]
Here's my offering:
"One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied."
PS: Just a question I have long been wondering about: Is it only really literature if the author's name is hard to spell? |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:13 am Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
[I think some posters would not make good Lit teachers. When they put a quote to be identified on a test, they include a pithy one that includes a clue.]
Here's my offering:
"One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied."
PS: Just a question I have long been wondering about: Is it only really literature if the author's name is hard to spell? |
Easy. The Gift of the Magi.
One of my favorites and oft quoted:
Your laboring people think beyond all question,
Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:26 am Post subject: |
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Kafka's The Metamorphosis?
Sparkles*_* |
Yippers.
Now try this one.
"Their @ssholes looked like this: *"
Substitute the @ for an a to get the exact quote. |
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IchiTK
Joined: 02 Feb 2006
Location: on my way...
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:42 am Post subject: |
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| blunder1983 wrote: |
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep... aka Blade Runner by Philip K *beep*.
Into this wild abyss, the womb of nature and perhaps her grave... |
Paradise Lost? |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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| "Then I started reading this timetable I had in my pocket. Just to stop lying. Once I get started I can go on for hours if I feel like it. No kidding. Hours. |
Yes it is Holden the liar. That was the "hint" any good teacher would give for the test. Plus the word/breath pace and as mentioned the conversational and 1st person juvenile tone......
I'll throw one more out there....
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Here vigour failed the lofty fantasy:
But now was turning my desire and will,
Even as a wheel that equally is moved,
The Love which moves the sun and the other stars.
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DirtySanchez
Joined: 26 Mar 2004
Location: Neither here nor there
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| Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:27 am Post subject: |
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| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
"Their @ssholes looked like this: *" |
Vaunagut's "Breakfast of Champions"?
Here's an easy one:
"From hell's heart I stab at thee. For hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee." |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 4:09 am Post subject: |
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Here's an easy one:
"From hell's heart I stab at thee. For hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee." |
Moby D*i*c*k. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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Here vigour failed the lofty fantasy:
But now was turning my desire and will,
Even as a wheel that equally is moved,
The Love which moves the sun and the other stars |
I hope I didn't kill the thread with this "poetic" challenge.
It is the last words, the ending of the Divine Comedy. Canto xxxiii The thrust that popped the bubble of latin literature.....
DD |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:25 am Post subject: |
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Here's another:
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| Man is a creature that can get used to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him. |
Sparkles*_* |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:02 am Post subject: |
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Mark Twain
Dave Barry
Charles Darwin |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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Sounds like a quote someone French would say......although probably Samuel Clements / Mark Twain. But might also be something from a holocaust survivor.......Viktor Frankl???? Primo Levi??? Saul Bellow??? Norman Mailer???
DD |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
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Hey Sparkles- Get back to us on the human adaptation quote.
Since I've gotten a couple on here correct, I'll throw one out to keep this thread alive.
Poetry again, and not line sensitive.
Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:08 am Post subject: |
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| HapKi wrote: |
| Hey Sparkles- Get back to us on the human adaptation quote. |
Sorry. It's from Dostoevsky's The House of the Dead.
Sparkles*_* |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:30 am Post subject: |
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Hapki,
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| Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold |
Glad I can slap you back with a retort of my own. William Carlos Williams. Interesting story behind this poem too....one of my favs . (have you been inspired by the fav. poem thread???)
The whole poem , one of the few I know by heart. ..........
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This Is Just to Say
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold |
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