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KarenHunt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:59 am ...
Name the person:
"There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone."
...

E Pericoloso Sporgersi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 12:30 pm
BTW. Did you know? . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cazaril-Tambour%C3%A8s

KarenHunt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:59 am I want to try something slightly different. The idea is I'll start with a relatively obscure quote, then add less obscure ones each day or other day. The goal is:

Name the person:

"There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone."

If no answers by 3/10, I'll add a different quote by the same person.

Karen Hunt

E Pericoloso Sporgersi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 12:30 pm

KarenHunt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:59 am ...
Name the person:
"There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone."
...

Cazaril

BTW. Did you know? . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cazaril-Tambour%C3%A8s

KarenHunt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 1:12 pm
EDIT: regarding Cazaril-Tambour - I know Lois moves locations around if it serves her purposes to do so. My money says it's not wrong, just moved.

KarenHunt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:59 am I want to try something slightly different. The idea is I'll start with a relatively obscure quote, then add less obscure ones each day or other day. The goal is:

Name the person:

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

No artificial shortages!

If no answers by 3/11-12, I'll add a different quote by the same person.

Karen Hunt

KarenHunt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:59 am I want to try something slightly different. The idea is I'll start with a relatively obscure quote, then add less obscure ones each day or other day. The goal is:

Name the person:

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

No artificial shortages!

All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.

If no answers by 3/12-13, I'll add something else descriptive of the same person (maybe not a quote of the person, but a quote about them).

Karen Hunt

KarenHunt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:59 am I want to try something slightly different. The idea is I'll start with a relatively obscure quote, then add less obscure ones each day or other day. The goal is:

Name the person:

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

No artificial shortages!

All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.

XXX lumbered in, dressed for the day in his comfortable rumpled suit, scarcely more form-fitting than his pajamas. It was tailor-made garb, appropriate to his status as YYY, but he must, ZZZ reflected, have driven his tailor to despair before coaxing just the fit he wanted, With lots of room in the pockets.

If no answers by 3/14-15, I'll add something else descriptive of the same person (maybe not a quote of the person, but a quote about them).
(Only looking for XXX -- YYY and ZZZ are just to keep it from becoming too clear who this is)

Karen Hunt

KarenHunt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:59 am I want to try something slightly different. The idea is I'll start with a relatively obscure quote, then add less obscure ones each day or other day. The goal is:

Name the person:

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

No artificial shortages!

All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.

XXX lumbered in, dressed for the day in his comfortable rumpled suit, scarcely more form-fitting than his pajamas. It was tailor-made garb, appropriate to his status as YYY, but he must, ZZZ reflected, have driven his tailor to despair before coaxing just the fit he wanted, With lots of room in the pockets.

If no answers by 3/14-15, I'll add something else descriptive of the same person (maybe not a quote of the person, but a quote about them).
(Only looking for XXX -- YYY and ZZZ are just to keep it from becoming too clear who this is)

Karen Hunt

voralfred wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 10:21 am Lord Auditor Professor Uncle Vorthys

voralfred wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 10:21 am

KarenHunt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:59 am I want to try something slightly different. The idea is I'll start with a relatively obscure quote, then add less obscure ones each day or other day. The goal is:

Name the person:

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

No artificial shortages!

All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.

XXX lumbered in, dressed for the day in his comfortable rumpled suit, scarcely more form-fitting than his pajamas. It was tailor-made garb, appropriate to his status as YYY, but he must, ZZZ reflected, have driven his tailor to despair before coaxing just the fit he wanted, With lots of room in the pockets.

If no answers by 3/14-15, I'll add something else descriptive of the same person (maybe not a quote of the person, but a quote about them).
(Only looking for XXX -- YYY and ZZZ are just to keep it from becoming too clear who this is)

Karen Hunt

Lord Auditor Professor Uncle Vorthys

"Y'know, there's something backwards about this. . . ."

"Y'know, there's something backwards about this. . . ."

"Everything. Even the light."

voralfred wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 3:18 pm First one

"Y'know, there's something backwards about this. . . ."

Here the ... are actually put by LMB in the character's line, they are not mine to indicate I only posted part of the line, as I sometimes do. In that case I use parentheses, like this : (...)

Second one

"Everything. Even the light."

I should really have started with this one, which I think is much harder than the first one, therefore :
Bonus : Until I post the third quote, in a few days, I'll give 1/2 extra point for the context of this line. I'll be sole judge of the amount of context needed, so be quite explicit, please. Just the book is not enough.

"XXX ... has never in its history been taken by assault."

Strange. I was lost in it, too…it is haunted, you know.

"XXX ... has never in its history been taken by assault."

Strange. I was lost in it, too…it is haunted, you know.

The town ramparts flared back along the tops of the ravines like the shape of a boat with the XXX at its prow, then turned inward in a long wall forming the stern.

"XXX ... has never in its history been taken by assault."

Strange. I was lost in it, too…it is haunted, you know.

The town ramparts flared back along the tops of the ravines like the shape of a boat with the XXX at its prow, then turned inward in a long wall forming the stern.

“Indeed,” said AAA, with a sly smile, “the birds of the XXX are veritable courtiers among crows.”

"XXX ... has never in its history been taken by assault."

Strange. I was lost in it, too…it is haunted, you know.

The town ramparts flared back along the tops of the ravines like the shape of a boat with the XXX at its prow, then turned inward in a long wall forming the stern.

“Indeed,” said AAA, with a sly smile, “the birds of the XXX are veritable courtiers among crows.”

Every lady-in-waiting in the XXX, whether they’d ever borne a child or not, had a dozen country remedies to press upon me.

voralfred wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 4:02 pm XXX is Toledo's Alcazar.

As is well known, the architects of this remarkable fortress based its plans on the Zangre of Cardegoss, which can be seen on each of KarenHunt's posts

“That, too. But you would not believe all the forms that have to be filled out, afterward.”

“That, too. But you would not believe all the forms that have to be filled out, afterward.”

"Mister, I don't want to stop you!"