LMB Quote Game

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:46 pm

So, next quote :

...unjust to use his daily gift of breath to complain about XXX

Whose "gift of breath" ? In which book ? What's XXX ? Context ?

Bonus : Somewhere else, someone else shouldn't "use [his] gift of breath to complain of [something]" : Who, Where, and what's [something] then ?

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:45 pm

Slightly more :

Better luck than mine. No, unjust to use his daily gift of breath to complain about his luck.

And since I'm at it, VorAlfred, I've finally found your leopardess : Ekaterin at the end of ACC, during this so memorable vote. Richars adress her, thinking she wouldn't be allowed to answer... but she is. Exact quote is :

The look on Richars's face made Miles think of a man tormenting a leopardess suddenly discovering that the creature had no leash.

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 3:53 am

Still no one ? A hint : it's in the vorkosiverse (at least the main quote)

Post by **Ghost** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:01 am

Is it Miles talking about Tien in Komarr?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:33 pm

Caroline Tredez wrote: And since I'm at it, VorAlfred, I've finally found your leopardess : Ekaterin at the end of ACC, during this so memorable vote. Richars adress her, thinking she wouldn't be allowed to answer... but she is. Exact quote is :
The look on Richars's face made Miles think of a man tormenting a leopardess suddenly discovering that the creature had no leash.

Yes! Now we have all the female panthera.....

So this is one more half point, since I decided to make them two separate bonuses.

No more old bonuses, I think. But of course there is your new one.

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:59 am

Sorry, Ghost, it's neither about Tien nor in Komarr.

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:16 am

Well, last extension (more would definitely be too revealing and take the fun of it)

"Well, good luck to you." Better luck than mine. No, unjust to use his daily gift of breath to complain about his luck.

Who, in which book, context ?

Bonus : Somewhere else, someone else shouldn't "use [his] gift of breath to complain of [something]" : Who, Where, and what's [something] then ?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:26 am

As for the main quote, since you said it is in Vorkosiverse, I don't see where. "Who" is probably Miles, but that's all I can say.

The bonus: my guess it is in TSK, it sounds like the non-complaining breather may be Dag. Probably TSK1 (Beguilement), before he got seriously involved with Fawn. After that he would have been more positive. What he is not complaining about: having lost the love of his life, and his hand to booth... ?

Blackwing · Post by **Blackwing** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:44 am

Caroline Tredez wrote:Well, last extension (more would definitely be too revealing and take the fun of it)

"Well, good luck to you." Better luck than mine. No, unjust to use his daily gift of breath to complain about his luck.
Who, in which book, context ?

Miles in Memory.

Miles is talking to Martin, who is the brother of the soldier who is guarding Miles, and hires Martin to fly him around. Miles is bitter that his career has ended and Martin's hasn't yet started.

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:10 pm

\o/ Yes, that's it. Next quote is yours, Blackwing.

Unfortunately the bonus is not by Dag, and not in TSK1, voralfred.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:10 pm

Not by Dag?
So another shot in the dark (for the bonus; a good thing Blackwing got the main question, I had no idea...)

Cazaril; in Curse of Chalion.
Something= being somehow involved in the Daughter's design...
That's a very broad "something", that might mean surviving Roknari captivity and the ordeal of the trip home, if very early in the book; surviving the night in Fonsa's tower, if about that part of the book; surviving Martou's sword, if very late in the book... or earlier in time, surviving the siege of Gotorget, if in a reminiscence.
I'm cheating, he?

It just that I feel that this "breath" stuff is related to survival (as in Miles' case, in a broad sense: Memory is all about survival, if I had only thought about it; I was thinking in terms of Mirror Dance itself, or Vor Game during the "limbo" epoch, after Kyril but before Victor Rotha, but of course it was not there)

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:52 pm

I was looking in Curse of Chalion until she said it was in Vorkosiverse. I was figuring it was during Caz's convalescence after being stabbed by Martou (though I'd been looking at the beginning when he was travelling to ask the Provincara for a place, figuring at that point he'd be in bad shape, but realizing it could be worse).

I could also see it being Arhys in Paladin of Souls. Haven't looked to see though.

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:49 am

Not Cazaril for the bonus, voralfred, and not Arhys either, SPetty (... Arhys's "gift of breath" being pretty limited to begin with in that book

)

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:26 am

Caroline Tredez wrote:\o/ Yes, that's it. Next quote is yours, Blackwing.

With all these exchanges about not guessing the bonus, maybe Blackwing will miss the post where yo usaid he did guess the main quote.....

Blackwing · Post by **Blackwing** » Fri May 01, 2009 2:42 pm

Getting impatient already?

X leaned back, face growing serious; and somehow, Y was not sure how, commanding attention all around the table.

The book?
Who is X?
Who is Y?
Where are they?

Blackwing · Post by **Blackwing** » Tue May 05, 2009 2:19 am

A bit longer:

X leaned back, face growing serious; and somehow, Y was not sure how, commanding attention all around the table. It was as if X suddenly grew taller just sitting there.

The book?
Who is X?
Who is Y?
Where are they?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Wed May 06, 2009 10:52 pm

Found it! After hunting the Vorkosiverse for any table where could be sitting Aral first, then Miles, Illyan and, in desperation, even Mark, I finally widened my investigations.

Book= Beguilement
X= Dag
Y= Fawn
Where: the Bluefield's farmhouse

Blackwing · Post by **Blackwing** » Thu May 07, 2009 6:33 am

Yes, your turn.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Thu May 07, 2009 7:18 am

"So, XXX1," said YYY. "What do you think of AAA so far?"
"It went by pretty fast," XXX2 said cautiously.
"Dear God, don't tell me you let ZZZ drive?"
"I didn't know I had a choice."

Book?
What character is XXX? (I don't insist on the exact forms of XXX1 and XXX2)
Whoe are YYY and ZZZ?
What place is AAA?

Post by **Ghost** » Thu May 07, 2009 8:01 am

Mirror Dance, Mark, Gregor, Ivan and Vorbarr Sultana!

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Thu May 07, 2009 11:08 am

Whew! That was fast (not record-breaking, though).

Perfectly correst. Your turn.

Post by **Ghost** » Mon May 11, 2009 9:59 am

Sorry for the delay, real-life issues. New quote:

"You had a long tour. Did you see everything?"
X bared his teeth. "Everything. Even the light."

X, questioner and Book.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon May 11, 2009 10:03 am

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!

I know that one!
Oh, do I know that one!!!!!
But I have to wait for five days.

Hint: if you read some of my very very old posts, and wonder why I remember this quote so well, it could help you guess what book it is in.

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Mon May 11, 2009 1:53 pm

X = Ivan, questioner = Yenaro, Book = Cetaganda ?

Voralfred : it was the same for me after Blackwing's quote

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon May 11, 2009 3:47 pm

Maybe, but this was not one of the sentences you rewrote for the french translation. The original translator made a mess of it. Her word-for-word original translation "J'ai vu la lumiÃ¨re" does not give justice to the text. So this is one of the sentences which are mine. I misplaced my copy of the J'Ai Lu Cetaganda, but I remember I ended up translating by "Avez-vous tout vu?" "Oui, mÃªme le fond des choses" ("the bottom of things" which may be a bit PG-13, in that context, but, well.... )

The hint I was alluding to is, I did mention, very early on, that I corrected the french translations of three and a third books, nemely Cetaganda, Memory, Komarr and only Mountains of Mourning in the collection "Borders of Infinity".