LMB Quote Game

[SPetty]

BTW I found the third Dag. He's one of the Athosians.

[SPetty]

Quote:

"How come I wasn't invited?"

Speaker and book, please.

Hint 1: The speaker has been used as a point of view character (in other words, scenes have been described from the speaker's point of view, including the quote scene).

Hint 2: It's one of the 5 most recently published books.

[voralfred]

Another hint, maybe?

[SPetty]

Ok, a little more then:

"They marched us down to the dining hall and haraugued us till they were hoarse."
"How come I wasn't invited?"


Who is the first speaker?
Who is the second speaker?
Book?

[voralfred]

Ok, a little more then:

"They marched us down to the dining hall and haraugued us till they were hoarse."
"How come I wasn't invited?"


Who is the first speaker?
Who is the second speaker?
Book?

Ah-ha!
I guessed it this time!

Raven to Roic "the uninvited Barrabarian" in Cryoburn.

[SPetty]

Correct! You're up, and I'll go post your sherlock

[voralfred]

New quote :

Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught.

Though not in italics, this is really a thought. So:

Book?
Who thinks that thought?
Who should catch this contagion, "love of life"?

[voralfred]

New quote :

Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught.

Though not in italics, this is really a thought. So:

Book?
Who thinks that thought?
Who should catch this contagion, "love of life"?

A hint: the character who should catch "love of life" has a rather rare characteristic : the same name, that is both first name and last name, as another character.

BONUS

I am not giving a bonus for finding this other character, as it would be too obvious.

But I am now offering an "open" bonus:
Find other pairs of characters with the same characteristic, namely same first name and same last name.
I can think of two pairs, right now, but there might be more, and any such pair will give the finder a one half

SInce this bonus is rather independent from the main question, anyone can propose an answer to it without having answered the main question first, and this applies to you, too, Suzette : no 5 days pingpong rule on the bonus.
But to get each half it is not enough to write "there are two characters called XXX YYY", you have to give an unambiguous indication of who each one of the pair is!
Warning: there are not two distinct characters called Arde Mayhew. The one who smuggled Cordelia out of Beta Colony and the one that Miles meets in "Warrior" are one and the same.

[SPetty]

Aww, c'mon, voralfred! You just made the quote WAY too easy.

Though the bonus is something else. Technically, Mark spends the first half of his life being called Miles Vorkosigan (including halfway into Brothers in Arms), but I'm not sure that's what you're getting at. Ah. One of them is Aral Vorkosigan: Miles's father and son (Aral Alexander).

And you almost have to feel sorry for Arde.

[voralfred]

Aww, c'mon, voralfred! You just made the quote WAY too easy.

Beware, everybody! Looks like Suzette knows the answer! Just a few more hours till her 5 days expire!!

Though the bonus is something else. Technically, Mark spends the first half of his life being called Miles Vorkosigan (including halfway into Brothers in Arms), but I'm not sure that's what you're getting at.

Indeed not. No assumed names, otherwise Miles pseudo-though-almost-correct-nym Miles Naismith (Admiral, retired) would also count since this is the real name of Cordelia's father.
Besises, though Galen called "the clone" Miles, I don't think he called him "Miles Vorkosigan".

Ah. One of them is Aral Vorkosigan: Miles's father and son (Aral Alexander).

And you almost have to feel sorry for Arde.

Oops... So I did miss one! I did tell you the bonus was open-ended.
Yes, Suzette, you are right, Aral Alexander and Count Admiral Aral Vorkosigan is indeed a valid pair that I did not think of.
Middle names (or "second" "first names") don't count. We don't know what Aral's second name was (it had to be the second name of Prince Xav Vorbarra, Aral's maternal grandfather) but there is no reason to believe it was Alexander..
So there are still two pairs that I know of. No middle (or "second" first) name is known for these two pairs. But even in yet another pair where both middle names would be known and be actually different, the pair would still be a valid one if first first name and family name are the same.

I'll update your 1/2 point when the mains question is answered.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

Aww, c'mon, voralfred! You just made the quote WAY too easy.

Beware, everybody! Looks like Suzette knows the answer! Just a few more hours till her 5 days expire!!

Yeah, yeah. Turn the knife in the wound, why don't you?

I still have no clue.

[SPetty]

My weekend's going to be kind of hectic, so I'll wait till Monday to see if anyone gets it.

I was trying to think of more bonus names, but there are so many Admiral Vor-something, I can't remember specific names.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

...I'll wait till Monday to see if anyone gets it.

AAaarrgghh...

Still, with my last breath <gasp>, there's Miles's grandpa General Count Piotr Vorkosigan and the more distant ancestor Count Pierre "Le Sanguinaire" Vorkosigan.

Please, please, accept Pierre, Piotr, Peter, Pieter, Pietro, Pedro and Πέτερ as equivalent names.

[sarsaparilla]

New quote :

Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught.

Though not in italics, this is really a thought. So:

Book?
Who thinks that thought?
Who should catch this contagion, "love of life"?

Book - Mirror Dance
Miles has this thought
about Lily Durona, the clone.

[voralfred]

@ sarsaparilla: yes, your answer is correct for the main question; one sherlock and the new quote is yours

@ EPS : Pierre Le Sanguinaire was not Count Vorkosigan, but Count Vorrutyer !
And in fact Piotr, who is indeed his grand-son, but through his mother, does wear his maternal grandfather's exact first name, but as his second first name: Count Piotr Pierre Vorkosigan. (Hence: Mark Pierre Vorkosigan.. but second first names do not count.)

[sarsaparilla]

Thanks! Sorry I've been MIA; life's been a little hectic.

New quote:

No. Not safe to say. Merely true to think.

Book?
Narrator who has this thought?
Statement in question(what is it that's not actually "safe to say")?

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

New quote:

No. Not safe to say. Merely true to think.

Book?
Narrator who has this thought?
Statement in question(what is it that's not actually "safe to say")?

In 'Memory', Miles did truly think (but felt not safe to say) that he would like to frontally collide with Laisa.

Even if Lois didn't actually write it, it must be correct. Without the shadow of a doubt Miles must have been smitten with just that thought, at least once.

[sarsaparilla]

Alas; as you say,

Lois didn't actually write it

Not in Memory, anyway.

[Caroline Tredez]

It's Cazaril in chapter 8, CoC, about the dy Jironals : what's not "safe to say" is that any act of Dondo is probably permitted by his brother Martou.

[sarsaparilla]

It's Cazaril in chapter 8, CoC, about the dy Jironals : what's not "safe to say" is that any act of Dondo is probably permitted by his brother Martou.

Indeed. The next quote is yours.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

It's Cazaril in chapter 8, CoC, about the dy Jironals : what's not "safe to say" is that any act of Dondo is probably permitted by his brother Martou.

Indeed. The next quote is yours.

Ow, ow, ow!
Hold on to your hats, guys!

[Caroline Tredez]

Now, what are you implying, EPS ^^ ?

An easy one, just to give him the lie :

... she trailed off, looking into the kind, concerned, and loving wall of her mother's face.

Who's looking at her mother, here ?

PS : I'll post SPetty half sherlock for the third Dag when this quote is answered.

[voralfred]

Now, what are you implying, EPS ^^ ?

An easy one, just to give him the lie :

... she trailed off, looking into the kind, concerned, and loving wall of her mother's face.

Who's looking at her mother, here ?

PS : I'll post SPetty half sherlock for the third Dag when this quote is answered.

Easy one... maybe...
I have absolutely no memory of this quote, but...

A woman and her daughter, but not a small child like Ekaterin's daughter...
Not so many choices. But in the world of Chalion, there is even a series of three, the old Provincara, Ista and Iselle. Somehow, though the Provincara can certainly be kind, concerned and loving, because of the "wall", my guess is rather :

Iselle looking at her mother Ista (probably, just before leaving for the capital; we don't see them much together)

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

... she trailed off, looking into the kind, concerned, and loving wall of her mother's face.

Who's looking at her mother, here ?

Iselle looking at her mother Ista (probably, just before leaving for the capital; we don't see them much together)

I'm thinking that "kind, concerned, and loving" points to motherly love. But "wall of her mother's face" suggests a motherly conflict.

On Beta Colony, before Cordelia went to Barrayar, she was unjustly accused of having been butchered by the Brainwasher of Komarr. Cordelia couldn't see belief in her innocence in her mother's face.

[voralfred]

Ow! Shucks! I should have held on my hat! I am wrong and EPS is right !
But we'll have to wait for Caroline's final approval. Maybe her french patriotism will give me the sherlock against the hereditary flemish enemy!