Yet *Another* Quote Game [First line game]

Post by **Kvetch** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:45 pm

cheers! sorry to get it so fast...

how about:

X, aged seven, and no longer the youngest of the family, ran in wide zigzags, to and fro, across the steep field that sloped up from the lake ...

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:22 am

That seems *really* familiar, but I just can't put my finger on it. ARGH. It's not a book I own, I know that much

anybody else?

Post by **Kvetch** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:24 am

I'll expand it if it proves to hard. Just say when.

Post by **Kvetch** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:04 pm

perhaps this will make it easier:

Roger, aged seven, and no longer the youngest of the family, ran in wide zigzags, to and fro, across the steep field that sloped up from the lake to Holly Howe...

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:19 pm

I'm still stumped

anybody else? (worst part is, I'm pretty sure I've read it...)

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:25 pm

That's Arthur Ransom - probably 'Swallows & Amazons', I think.

Not sure of the title, but pretty certain about the author.

Post by **Kvetch** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 3:43 pm

You are correct on both counts.

Your go. I'll give you the sherlock in a mo.

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:20 pm

Alrighty then...

His name was Gaal Dormick and he was just a country boy...

Post by **Kvetch** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:43 pm

easy - and I can't answer it.

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:51 pm

Argh... it's one of the foundation books.... but which one... *growl*

Okay, I'll guess the first one. Foundation by Isaac Asimov?

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:13 pm

Yup... 'Foundation' it is.

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 1:16 am

ok... not sure how "mainstream" this is, but I can give hints to help if it's too obscure...

The last drops of the thundershower had hardly ceased falling when the Pedestrian stuffed his map into his pocket, settled his pack more comfortably on his tired shoulders, and stepped out from the shelther of a large chestnut-tree into the middle of the road. A violent yellow sunset was pouring through a rift in the clouds to westward, but straight ahead over the hills the sky was the colour of dark slate. Every tree and blade of grass was dripping, and the road shone like a river.

Post by **Kvetch** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 6:56 am

no idea

EDGE: don't forget tollbaby's sherlock.

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:46 pm

okay... should I post more of the quote, or would a hint be better? This is the first volume of a sci-fi trilogy from an author that wouldn't necessarily make you think of sci-fi at all.... Published in 1943.

spiphany · Post by **spiphany** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 9:30 pm

Well, I recognized it immediately, but it also happens to be one of my favorite books.
The capitalization of "Pedestrian" gave it away for me...I always wondered why he writes it like that at the beginning, when he doesn't later on. It certainly adds to the sense of atmosphere, though.

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 2:40 am

weeelllll?????? c'mon spiphany, spit it out

btw, have you ever read any of his poetry? I have a collection that's all based on mythology that's quite enjoyable!

spiphany · Post by **spiphany** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:01 pm

Oh. I was hoping someone else would know...
C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet. (No, I haven't read any of his poetry. It sounds interesting, though, if it's based on mythology.)

Now I'm supposed to post one, right?

Whan that Aprill with his shoures sote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale fowles maken melodye
That slepen al the night with open yÃ«
(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages):
Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes,
And specially, from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Canterbury they wende,
The holy blisful martir for to seke
That hem holpen, whan that they were seke.

(These opening lines seem appropriate to the season, although the rest of the book isn't particularly. I have not modernized the spelling and grammar, obviously. I can post a modern translation if people need it.)

Post by **Kvetch** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:15 pm

Canterbury Tales. G Chaucer

mccormack44 · Post by **mccormack44** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 5:08 pm

Oh Gee!

I've been grumping through the housework because nothing interesting was on the board, and I missed siphany's post.

I would have gotten it! Probably just as well, as I can't think of an interesting opening line.

Sue

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 6:08 pm

So spiph and Kvetch are both owed a sherlock (presuming Kvetch is correct, which I'm pretty sure he is... she? gee, gender confusion all of a sudden...)

spiphany · Post by **spiphany** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 8:54 pm

Canterbury Tales is correct. Do I need to change the score in the Sherlock thread or how does that work?

ausfi · Post by **ausfi** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 8:57 pm

Oh, no! I had not looked here for a while. Out of the Silent Planet sat right here in my bookshelf, but I had not read it for a long time, did not check! And Chaucer belonged to the university course.

To miss two!

Post by **wolfspirit** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 8:58 pm

tollbaby wrote:So spiph and Kvetch are both owed a sherlock (presuming Kvetch is correct, which I'm pretty sure he is... she? gee, gender confusion all of a sudden...)

Kvetch is a he, last time I checked.....but then again, with modern surgery, you never know.

spiphany: Just copy the list of scores in the post above you, and credit Kvetch with one more point, moving his place in the list if you need to.

magicfan241

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 12:24 am

I am devastated that I missed Chaucer's Prologue. booohoooo!

magicfan241 wrote:
tollbaby wrote:So spiph and Kvetch are both owed a sherlock (presuming Kvetch is correct, which I'm pretty sure he is... she? gee, gender confusion all of a sudden...)
Kvetch is a he, last time I checked.....but then again, with modern surgery, you never know.

spiphany: Just copy the list of scores in the post above you, and credit Kvetch with one more point, moving his place in the list if you need to.

magicfan241

you checked?

ewwwwwwww

/me edges slowly out the door

ausfi · Post by **ausfi** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 12:33 pm

Hey, what are you waiting for? Quickly give us a new one to solve, pleas, please

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