Yet *Another* Quote Game [First line game]

Post by **clong** » Tue May 10, 2005 6:49 am

ok, here's the new opening quote

The Hegemony Consul sat on the balcony of his ebony spaceship and played Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp Minor on an ancient but well-maintained Steinway while great, green, saurian things surged and bellowed in the swamps below.

Dorrin · Post by **Dorrin** » Tue May 10, 2005 7:03 am

clong wrote:ok, here's the new opening quote

The Hegemony Consul sat on the balcony of his ebony spaceship and played Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp Minor on an ancient but well-maintained Steinway while great, green, saurian things surged and bellowed in the swamps below.

Hyperion, Dan Simmons.

Post by **clong** » Tue May 10, 2005 7:14 am

You got it, Dorrin. You're up.

Dorrin · Post by **Dorrin** » Tue May 10, 2005 7:18 am

On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition and Astrology.

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Tue May 10, 2005 9:58 am

ACK I know that.... but I can't guess it *GRUMBLE* I have the book, but I haven't yet read it, so I didn't come by the knowledge honestly LOL

Post by **wolfspirit** » Tue May 10, 2005 11:21 am

Dorrin wrote:
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition and Astrology.

The Sword in the Stone, by T. H. White.

I have that in hard cover at my house.

magicfan241

Post by **Ghost** » Tue May 10, 2005 12:35 pm

magicfan241 wrote:
Dorrin wrote:
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition and Astrology.
The Sword in the Stone, by T. H. White.

I have that in hard cover at my house.

magicfan241

I thought it was from The Once and Future King by T.H. White.

Post by **Kvetch** » Tue May 10, 2005 12:39 pm

That is one name change that makes me very sad...

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Tue May 10, 2005 12:41 pm

me too

My copy is "The Once and Future King"

Post by **Kvetch** » Tue May 10, 2005 12:42 pm

I happen (long story) to have two copies, one with each title - one 'very' old, and one fairly new. Not that that makes any difference to anyone else.

Post by **clong** » Tue May 10, 2005 1:05 pm

Is the iblist entry incorrect?

http://www.iblist.com/series571.htm

We have it as The Once and Future King is the name of the collection, and The Sword in the Stone is the name of the first novel within the collection.

Post by **Kvetch** » Tue May 10, 2005 1:15 pm

It was orignially published as the Once and Future King, but was retitled 'The Sword in the Stone' (after the Disney film??)
The Book of Merlyn is less a standalone novel, than a reworking of the ending of one of the books.

At least, that was my understanding - actual research seems to refute it. I think I will go and check my two copies, to see if one is a compendium...

Post by **wolfspirit** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:04 pm

Kvetch wrote:It was orignially published as the Once and Future King, but was retitled 'The Sword in the Stone' (after the Disney film??)
The Book of Merlyn is less a standalone novel, than a reworking of the ending of one of the books.

At least, that was my understanding - actual research seems to refute it. I think I will go and check my two copies, to see if one is a compendium...

If you would like, when I get the camera back (late this evening), I can take a picture of the first page, with that exact quote. Along with a picture of the cover with"The Sword in the Stone" as the title.

If not, I'll get a quote up in the next ten minutes (once I get at my books).

magicfan241

Post by **Kvetch** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:06 pm

We aren't arguing about which book the quote comes from - just what the book is called.

Post by **wolfspirit** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:18 pm

Ok, here you guys go:

"CALL!"
"Bump."
"Bump again."
"Who're you trying to kid? You've got elf-high nothing!"
"Try me!"

I will add more if need me, but someone other than me has had to have read this series of books.

magicfan241

Post by **Ghost** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:23 pm

From Amazon.com:

Once and Future King:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0399105 ... eader-page

The Sword in the Stone:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0440984 ... eader-page

Page through the book and the first part of The Once and Future King is titled The Sword in the Stone, but both books start off with the quote.

Dorrin · Post by **Dorrin** » Tue May 10, 2005 9:42 pm

Nooo! I know the next one sooo well.
I love that series.

As for above, I will accept either title.
The book is The Sword in the Stone (1939). It is the first of White's Arthur books, followed by The Queen of Air and Darkness (1940) and The Ill-Made Knight (1941), and published as a revised edition all together with The Candle in the Wind (1958) as The Once And Future King (1958).

The Book of Merlyn is yet another book, found among White's papers after his death.

Post by **wolfspirit** » Sat May 14, 2005 3:25 pm

Ok, I'm going to open this up to anyone, even Dorrin, because someone has to know this book!

magicfan241

Dorrin · Post by **Dorrin** » Mon May 16, 2005 6:57 am

"CALL!"
"Bump."
"Bump again."
"Who're you trying to kid? You've got elf-high nothing!"
"Try me!"

To put Magicfan out of his misery, the book is Little Myth Marker, by Robert Asprin.
The book - along with all its cousins - is sitting about three feet to my right.

For the rest of you, I strongly suggest you track down this series - very lightweight fantasy, but good comedy and a lot of fun.

Here's a relatively easy one...

In a sheepfarmer's low stone house, high in the hills above Three Firs, two swords hang now above the mantelpiece

Post by **clong** » Mon May 16, 2005 7:40 am

Sounds like Sheepfarmer's Daughter, Elizabeth Moon

[edited to add author's name]

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Mon May 16, 2005 9:01 am

Dorrin, I've read most of the M.Y.T.H. series, just haven't memorized them

Post by **Ghost** » Mon May 16, 2005 9:18 am

Dorrin wrote:
"CALL!"
"Bump."
"Bump again."
"Who're you trying to kid? You've got elf-high nothing!"
"Try me!"
To put Magicfan out of his misery, the book is Little Myth Marker, by Robert Asprin.
The book - along with all its cousins - is sitting about three feet to my right.

I knew I had read that quote somewhere. The first two or three Myth books were good, but after that they sorta went the way of Piers Anthony's Xanth novels.

IMHO

Dorrin · Post by **Dorrin** » Mon May 16, 2005 10:19 pm

Clong is perfectly right - Sheepfarmer's Daughter it is.

As for the Myth books, they did turn somewhat, but nothing near as bad as the Phule books - a dreadful case of Xanth type seriesitis.

Post by **clong** » Tue May 17, 2005 6:07 am

Here is the new quote:

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano BuendÃa was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

spiphany · Post by **spiphany** » Wed May 18, 2005 8:50 pm

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

New quote:

There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of the fall mornings. [...] Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change. Some evil spell had settled on the community: mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died.

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Yet Another Quote Game [First line game]