LMB Quote Game
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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
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
Karen Hunt
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E Pericoloso Sporgersi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 12:30 pm
BTW. Did you know? . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cazaril-Tambour%C3%A8s
Hmmmm...
I know that South Ibra was across the ridge of mountains that separates Darthaca from the bulk of the three Ibran-speaking countries, but Cazaril was Chalionese, and no part of Chalion was on the Darthacan side of the ridge. Must be a different place....
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Lest people don't see the new question (very original, Karen, this takes us out of the routine...)
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
Human is as human does....Animals don't weep, Nine
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It is not Cazaril, but that's not a bad try.E Pericoloso Sporgersi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 12:30 pmCazaril
BTW. Did you know? . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cazaril-Tambour%C3%A8s
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.
Karen Hunt
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I was just kidding, and pulling EPS's leg ! It's an old tradition between him and me !
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Adding a second quotation, more distinctive to the character, but still somewhat obscure...
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 3/11-12, I'll add a different quote by the same person.No artificial shortages!
Karen Hunt
Karen Hunt
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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 3/12-13, I'll add something else descriptive of the same person (maybe not a quote of the person, but a quote about them).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.
Karen Hunt
Karen Hunt
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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 3/14-15, I'll add something else descriptive of the same person (maybe not a quote of the person, but a quote about them).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.
(Only looking for XXX -- YYY and ZZZ are just to keep it from becoming too clear who this is)
Karen Hunt
Karen Hunt
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Lord Auditor Professor Uncle VorthysKarenHunt 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 3/14-15, I'll add something else descriptive of the same person (maybe not a quote of the person, but a quote about them).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.
(Only looking for XXX -- YYY and ZZZ are just to keep it from becoming too clear who this is)
Karen Hunt
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DING DING DING! Got it!voralfred wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 10:21 amLord Auditor Professor Uncle VorthysKarenHunt 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 3/14-15, I'll add something else descriptive of the same person (maybe not a quote of the person, but a quote about them).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.
(Only looking for XXX -- YYY and ZZZ are just to keep it from becoming too clear who this is)
Karen Hunt
As a note, next quote was going to be (with removals as needed):
Dr. Vorthys was one of the two recent appointees of Gregor's who was not in the military mold. He was a professor emeritus of engineering failure analysis from Vorbarr Sultana University, and had written the text on his subject. Several of them, in fact. He looked a professor, stout, white-haired, smiling, rumpled, with a noble nose and big ears. Late in his career he had become philosophically interested in the connections between sociopolitical and engineering integrity; his addition to Gregor's array of Auditors had brought in some welcome technical expertise, not that the Auditors exactly worked as a team.
Karen Hunt
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OK, so let's try your method.
Not a longer quote at the same place but more and more unrelated quotes from the same character
First one
Not a longer quote at the same place but more and more unrelated quotes from the same character
First one
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 : (...)"Y'know, there's something backwards about this. . . ."
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First one
Second one
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.
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 : (...)"Y'know, there's something backwards about this. . . ."
Second one
I should really have started with this one, which I think is much harder than the first one, therefore :"Everything. Even the light."
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.
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Finally got that one: Cetaganada! Ivan talking to Yenaro about what he saw while he was upstairs.voralfred wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 3:18 pm First oneHere 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 : (...)"Y'know, there's something backwards about this. . . ."
Second oneI should really have started with this one, which I think is much harder than the first one, therefore :"Everything. Even the light."
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.
Karen
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Correct !
So one and a half point and the next quote.
So one and a half point and the next quote.
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Where is this place?
"XXX ... has never in its history been taken by assault."
"XXX ... has never in its history been taken by assault."
Karen Hunt
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2nd quotation...
Where is this place?
Where is this place?
"XXX ... has never in its history been taken by assault."
Karen HuntStrange. I was lost in it, too…it is haunted, you know.
Karen Hunt
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3rd quotation...
Where is this place?
Where is this place?
"XXX ... has never in its history been taken by assault."
Strange. I was lost in it, too…it is haunted, you know.
Karen HuntThe 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.
Karen Hunt
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4th quotation...
Where is this place?
Where is this place?
"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.
Karen Hunt“Indeed,” said AAA, with a sly smile, “the birds of the XXX are veritable courtiers among crows.”
Karen Hunt
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Where is this place?
"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.”
Karen HuntEvery lady-in-waiting in the XXX, whether they’d ever borne a child or not, had a dozen country remedies to press upon me.
Karen Hunt
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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
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
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OK, so if the first quote is not found soon, instead of extending one quote, I'll again give disconnected quotes from the same character
Bonus : what is "That" ?“That, too. But you would not believe all the forms that have to be filled out, afterward.”
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One quote of this character :
A second one
Each bonus is for 1/2
Bonus #1 : what is "That" ?“That, too. But you would not believe all the forms that have to be filled out, afterward.”
A second one
Bonus #2 : To whom is this told ?"Mister, I don't want to stop you!"
Each bonus is for 1/2
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