Yet *Another* Quote Game [First line game]

ravenwing989 · Post by **ravenwing989** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:37 pm

This could have occured nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak -- the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning.

Zybahn · Post by **Zybahn** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:08 pm

I know I've read this. It must be Conrad. Ummm... takes place in England... Amy Foster?

ravenwing989 · Post by **ravenwing989** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:12 pm

Close. Right author, wrong book.

KeE · Post by **KeE** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:22 am

Lord Jim, then?

Zybahn · Post by **Zybahn** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:04 am

Hmmm.... A fraction of Lord Jim takes place in England & if I recall it doesn't begin there (I can be wrong, of course). I'll let others try before I toss out another guess.

ravenwing989 · Post by **ravenwing989** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:17 am

That's wrong as well.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:05 am

A hint, maybe? Or should one call this cold?

ravenwing989 · Post by **ravenwing989** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 2:03 pm

Okay I'll give a hint.

Congo

Post by **clong** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:54 am

Found it...Conrad; Youth

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 1:42 am

clong, why don't you just post a new one?
If you are right, ravenwing can regularize your sherlock later.
If you are wrong, we can just say the quote ran cold, it has been there for quite a while already. Someone else can give the answer later and get the sherlock, but the game could go on.

ravenwing989 · Post by **ravenwing989** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:32 am

I'm afraid that it's still wrong....guess I picked a tough one!!

Post by **clong** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:58 pm

ravenwing989 wrote:I'm afraid that it's still wrong....guess I picked a tough one!!

Could it have been published under more than one title? http://books.google.com/books?id=tHQqAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:19 am

voralfred wrote:clong, why don't you just post a new one?
If you are right, ravenwing can regularize your sherlock later.
If you are wrong, we can just say the quote ran cold, it has been there for quite a while already. Someone else can give the answer later and get the sherlock, but the game could go on.

Well, I reiterate my suggestion. Right or wrong, clong could well go on and post a new one, as surely one can consider the quote cold now.

Post by **clong** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 4:07 am

You're a fine armful now, Mary, with those twenty pounds you've gained.

ravenwing989 · Post by **ravenwing989** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:09 pm

clong wrote:Found it...Conrad; Youth

Actually Clong is right. That would be a Sherlock, correct?

(Sorry that I didn't get the title right

the book I pulled it out of had the title quite obscured.....it was listed under Heart of Darkness.....

)

Post by **clong** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:01 pm

You're a fine armful now, Mary, with those twenty pounds you've gained.

Perhaps a hint is in order...This is the first line of a Pulitzer Prize winner.

Post by **clong** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 5:09 am

You're a fine armful now, Mary, with those twenty pounds you've gained.

This is the first line of a very well known American play.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Nov 10, 2008 5:20 pm

Isn't this getting a bit

?

Post by **clong** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:10 am

Mine is one of the most famous of 20th century plays, which tells of a fateful, heart-rending day from around 8:30 am to midnight, in August 1912 at a seaside Connecticut home.

But it's obviously very cold, so feel free to post a new first line.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:32 pm

OK, so what about this:

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous to the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts but brothers, not rivals but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence.

Zybahn · Post by **Zybahn** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:21 pm

clong wrote:Mine is one of the most famous of 20th century plays, which tells of a fateful, heart-rending day from around 8:30 am to midnight, in August 1912 at a seaside Connecticut home.

Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill.
Nice choice, Clong.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 1:48 am

Zybahn wrote:
clong wrote:Mine is one of the most famous of 20th century plays, which tells of a fateful, heart-rending day from around 8:30 am to midnight, in August 1912 at a seaside Connecticut home.
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill.
Nice choice, Clong.

If this is indeed the correct answer, do you want to post a new fisrt line? I could keep mne for some other time.

Post by **clong** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:39 am

Zybahn wrote:
clong wrote:Mine is one of the most famous of 20th century plays, which tells of a fateful, heart-rending day from around 8:30 am to midnight, in August 1912 at a seaside Connecticut home.
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill.
Nice choice, Clong.

That is correct. Sherlock on the way.

the grim squeaker · Post by **the grim squeaker** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:24 am

voralfred wrote:OK, so what about this:

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous to the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts but brothers, not rivals but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence.

Speaker for the dead? I cant remember the author though...

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:42 pm

It is indeed Speaker for the Dead

It is the second book in the Ender series by Orson Scott Card

YOur turn , and a Sherlock.

The Internet Book Database of Fiction

Yet Another Quote Game [First line game]