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Originally posted by PRG:

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Originally posted by kendocubano:
"playing Syndrome,"

That's what tipped me to it, otherwise, I probably wouldn't have known it.

Although like I said, if you really want to stump me, stay in Sci-Fi/Fantasy but go for a less iconic author.

Truth be told, I don't really play the game to stump people. I get a real charge when people guess, because it's a little moment of connection. Shared experiences, you know?

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Originally posted by kendocubano:
Truth be told, I don't really play the game to stump people. I get a real charge when people guess, because it's a little moment of connection. Shared experiences, you know?

I play to stump people and make them feel small-minded!

Just kidding. But your way is better, Kendo. It's also easier to come up with quotes to post!

So, you gonna put something up, or should I?

Ok, ok. Try this.

"I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria."

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"I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria."

Wait, wait, we've done this one. Here! Anyway, its the Magus by Fowles.

Here's a crowd favorite:

"She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seem to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise."

That's embarassing. I should have done The French Lieutenant's Woman. Anyway, yours is a crowd favorite, or at it should be. It is none other than Portnoy's Complaint by Mr. Philip Roth.

Did you hear? He's saying goodbye to Nathan Zuckerman.

Here's a good one.

"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below."

You're kidding, right?

I'll assume not.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey.

"I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October."

Whatever it is I haven't read it, but its clearly from the Northern Hemisphere, as down under, we all go home in December!

I'll bet you whatever you want to bet that you've read it. Hey, Monday is October. You didn't miss by that much this year.

I just re-read this book because of its 50th anniversary. I had actually posted another line from this same book in the past. One of my favorites, as a young man; it should be a favorite of young men and women everywhere!

Doesn't look like anyone's going to answer. It's Kerouac On The Road. I'll post a new book sometime.

I haven't read 'On The Road'.

....I can feel you judging me, I know, I know...

Go ahead and read it, Ish. But it's probably too late for it to do you any good.

I'm going. I came across this book in my "library" recently.

"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."

Great quote. No idea where it comes from, but I really like it!

I'm glad. This is a great book, and knowing (what little I do about) your taste, I think you'd like it.

Ok, barring further guesses, I hereby authorize a Googlization.

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"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."

Fascinating. I had no idea Beckett had written prose. And I so love anglo-irish literature. (Seamus Heany is the only Nobel Laureate I've even gotten drunk with!) I'll have to chase the book down.


Ok, since I googled first, I'll put up a terribly easy and light hearted choice:

"It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression “as pretty as an airport”.
Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk, and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs."

Nice. I miss him so.

Don't we all?