I can put one up to keep it going, but I didn't really get it.

"He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull."

Oh mannnnnnn, i know this too, but all my books are in Oz.....
oh, oh, it's Lord Jim, yeah yeh, it's Lord Jim...
i'm pretty sure...

Post a quote, Lord Coffin Joe.

Right..(cracks knuckles, prepares fingers to type)...

"It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shear's house."

I think that's from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.

ok, your turn clever britches....

LOL Well, I wasn't sure.

Okay, here goes, this should be easy and it's one of my favorite books:

"From a little after two oclock until almost sundown of the hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that - a dim hot airless room with the blinds all closed and fastened for forty-three summers because when she was a girl someone had believed that light and moving air carried heat and that the dark was always cooler, and which (as the sun shone fuller and fuller on that side of the house) became latticed with yellow slashes full of dust motes which Quentin thought of as being flecks of the dead old dried paint itself blown inward from the scaling blinds as wind might have blown them."

I have NO idea.......

Oh, I really thought you or mike f would get it right away. You probably haven't read the book. The author is American and Southern and this is said by some to be one of his most "difficult" books, though not his most well-known.

I knew that it sounded familiar but had no idea who it was. I used a search engine and found that I knew the author more for his short stories than novels, but this is a very good author indeed...

It reads like Faulkner, but I still don't know it off the top of my head....
If it is Faulkner, it's one I haven't read...

Yes, it's Faulkner and it's Absalom, Absalom.

I'm sure you both will get this one right away:

"Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing."

AHA!! Absalom, Absalom I have not read....you couldn't have picked Sanctuary, could ya?? ha ha

Don Quixote is in my all time top 10.
I really want to read the new trans. by Edith Grossman.

OK..quote:

"He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher--the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum."

quote:

He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher--the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum

I haven't read Sanctuary. LOL I thought you two would get Absalom, Absalom right away because of the mention of the name, "Quentin," but if ya haven't read the book...well.

Don Quixote is on my all time top ten list, too. I did read the new Edith Grossman translation and I loved it so much.

As to your quote, I don't know. Ajaib-Gher, Lahore, must be set in India. I don't think it's A Passage to India, though, is it?

Good guess, but no......
you're hunting in the right period though, roughly.....

Okay, thanks. I can't think of anything else right now, but I'll keep trying.

Some clues....
British writer
Male
Also wrote Verse
Early 1900's

Kipling? But I don't know the book. It has to one I've never read, which is almost all of Kipling, unfortunately.

OK. You got the author, and since you don't know his work well, I'll tell you it's KIM.
A tale of the British Empire in India as seen through the eyes of the young boy, Kim.

I highly recommend his Jungle Books.

Next: "'Come, Kit' said the other man. 'You don't remember any other war.'
She paid him no attention. 'The people of each country get more like the people of every other country. They have no character, no beauty, no ideals, no culture - nothing, nothing.' "

I have not read Kim, but I've always thought about reading it. Thank you for the recommendation.

As to your new quote, I have NO idea. LOL