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anderyn
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The Winter Edition of the Grex Mystery Quote Item
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Dec 22 16:53 UTC 1997 |
The Grex Mystery Quote Item should be reborn, like a phoenyx, in the
winter agora, and since I had the honor of having the quote as we changed
seasons, I suppose it's up to me to enter this. :-)
I still don't have a good quote, but I shall attempt to enter one by
tomorrow.
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remmers
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response 1 of 214:
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Dec 23 02:11 UTC 1997 |
While we're waiting for Twila's quote, I'll state the rules, for
the benefit of newcomers.
The person who is "it" enters a quote from a published work. It
can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, anything. Then
people try to guess the author. The first person to guess
correctly gives the next quote.
If people are having trouble, it is usual to give hints and/or
enter additional quotes by the same author.
It's only necessary to identify the author, not the particular
work quoted.
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davel
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response 2 of 214:
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Dec 23 12:36 UTC 1997 |
Would one of the Books FWs please link this item there? Thanks.
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omni
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response 3 of 214:
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Dec 23 18:52 UTC 1997 |
Done. I don't like to link, but such is the will of the people.
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davel
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response 4 of 214:
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Dec 28 00:59 UTC 1997 |
Ahem. anderyn, are you there?
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gerund
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response 5 of 214:
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Dec 28 08:51 UTC 1997 |
good, lord. i'm still a fw? mien gott.
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gerund
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response 6 of 214:
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Dec 28 08:54 UTC 1997 |
Or is that Mein?
Btw, I see that I'm not actually a fw anymore, so if one of the fw's
would care to remove my name from the starting file I'd appreciate it. :)
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arianna
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response 7 of 214:
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Dec 28 18:28 UTC 1997 |
(Mien Gott works. Or you could say, Um Gottes willen.)
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anderyn
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response 8 of 214:
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Dec 28 20:07 UTC 1997 |
I'm there. Just a bit... distracted by the hoidaze. Um. This author is
no longer living and is not an American.
The yellow omnibus crawled up the northern roads for what seemed like hours
on end; the great detective would not explain further, and perhaps his
assistants felt a silent and growing doubt of his errand. Perhaps, also, they
felt a silent and growing desire for lunch, for the hours crept long past the
normal luncheon hour, and the long roads of the North London suburbs seemed
to shoot out into length after length like an infernal telescope. It was one
of those journeys on which a man perpetually feels that now at last he must
have come to the end of the universe, and then finds that he has only come
to the beginning of Tufnell Park.
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birdlady
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response 9 of 214:
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Dec 28 22:44 UTC 1997 |
Is the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? If this *is* a Sherlock Holmes story,
I have no idea which one it is...
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davel
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response 10 of 214:
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Dec 29 01:43 UTC 1997 |
Heh.
*I* have no idea.
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aruba
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response 11 of 214:
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Dec 29 03:35 UTC 1997 |
Well, I'll try the obvious: Agatha Christe?
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remmers
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response 12 of 214:
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Dec 29 16:36 UTC 1997 |
Yeah Agatha Christie is obvious, and I'm sorry I didn't think
of her first. But I don't know if that's right...
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remmers
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response 13 of 214:
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Dec 29 16:38 UTC 1997 |
(I think we can rule out Conan Doyle though. The passage appears
to be in the 3rd person, and the Holmes stories were all
narrated in the 1st person, by Dr. Watson.)
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orinoco
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response 14 of 214:
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Dec 29 17:06 UTC 1997 |
(Didn't Doyle write books other than the Holmes stories, though?)
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davel
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response 15 of 214:
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Dec 29 17:16 UTC 1997 |
(Not mysteries, I think. But in other ways it seems most unlikely to be
Doyle, anyway.)
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anderyn
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response 16 of 214:
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Dec 29 17:59 UTC 1997 |
Not Doyle, and not Christie. But it IS a mystery writer of approximately the
same era. He is perhaps better known for other writings, however.
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aruba
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response 17 of 214:
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Dec 29 20:25 UTC 1997 |
Re #13: A minor correction: not *all* of the Sherlock Holmes stories were
narrated by Dr. Watson. There were a few (I think maybe two) which Holmes
undertook to narrate himself, during a period when Watson was married and
unavailable to be his sidekick.
How about... H.G. Wells? (Random guess.)
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tpryan
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response 18 of 214:
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Dec 29 22:35 UTC 1997 |
F0or ramdon guesses may I say Kipling?
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anderyn
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response 19 of 214:
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Dec 29 23:25 UTC 1997 |
Neither Wells nor Kipling. I shall do some research on this person's dates
and such, since I daren't rely on memory with such erudite readers. :-) More
info coming by tomorrow.
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remmers
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response 20 of 214:
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Dec 30 06:39 UTC 1997 |
I'll enter G.K. Chesterton as my random guess du jour.
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lilmo
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response 21 of 214:
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Jan 3 20:06 UTC 1998 |
Actually, I was already doubtful it could be Doyle b/c of the setting: were
there omnibuses in his time?
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minc
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response 22 of 214:
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Jan 6 04:27 UTC 1998 |
happy new year " Naw Warsha abhinandan" to all book loving friends
and wish that there will be very good discussion on books in the new year 1998
Once again Happy new Year to all of u
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remmers
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response 23 of 214:
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Jan 6 12:53 UTC 1998 |
Thanks Vaibhav, and the same to you.
Now if Twila would only get back to this item. It's been over
a week...
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anderyn
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response 24 of 214:
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Jan 6 13:48 UTC 1998 |
Okay, okay, okay. :-) Twila puts on her pitiful face and asks for
mercy because of her miserable bronchitis...
And Remmers is right! G. K. Chesterton, the Father Brown series.
Go for it, John!
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