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popcorn
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The Mysterious SF Quote Item
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Nov 16 02:09 UTC 1992 |
Based on the overwhelming number of literary quotes i can't begin
to identify that seem very popular in the Agora conference, i'd like
to start a mysterious SF quote item (where i stand some chance of being
able to identify the quotes).
Rules are: enter and guess at as many quotes as you like, as often as
you like.
Here's my favorite quote in all of science fictiondom. I've a hunch it'll
be recognized in about 10 minutes flat, but i like it so much that i'm going
to enter it anyway. Nyah!
She bought a ticket to an all-Titanide production of _Romeo and
Juliet_, then found herself giggling so much she had to leave.
A more apt title might have been _The Montagues and the Capulets
Join the Cavalry_. It was also apparent that the script had been
tampered with. Robin doubted the bard would have minded having
Titanides play the roles but thought she would have resented having
Romeo turned into a man by peckish revisionists.
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jep
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response 1 of 89:
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Nov 17 04:35 UTC 1992 |
From the third book in John Varley's "Titan" trilogy; "Demon" (an
excellent series from start to end!).
Not an exact quote, but close, I hope:
#2: "Have a drink because you pity yourself, and the drink pities you
and
has a drink, and then two drinks get together and that calls for drinks
all around."
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mcnally
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response 2 of 89:
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Nov 17 17:38 UTC 1992 |
There's something like that in one of the Hitchhiker's books, but
that's far enough off that aI can't tell whether it's the quote you're
thinking of or just something with the same general idea..
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popcorn
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response 3 of 89:
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Nov 18 04:18 UTC 1992 |
Re 1: John - nope! But you're very very close.
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jep
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response 4 of 89:
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Nov 22 16:43 UTC 1992 |
What? Is it in "Wizard" then?
I guess it's been a while since I've read those books.
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popcorn
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response 5 of 89:
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Nov 23 00:39 UTC 1992 |
Ding ding ding!!! Point for John!
Next quote, please...
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popcorn
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response 6 of 89:
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Dec 5 02:04 UTC 1992 |
Anybody seen a sparkling paragraph worth posting here?
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mcdaniel
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response 7 of 89:
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Jan 6 06:31 UTC 1993 |
In re "sparkling paragraphs", the classic line is the following:
"The king was pregnant." The author says that that line was a major
motivator for writing the story.
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terru
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response 8 of 89:
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Jan 9 19:08 UTC 1993 |
Left hand of Darkness?
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mcdaniel
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response 9 of 89:
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Jan 16 04:52 UTC 1993 |
Yep, "The king was pregnant." is in "The Left Hand of Darkness".
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gregc
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response 10 of 89:
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Jun 8 06:50 UTC 1993 |
Here's one for you. It's a fragment of a piece of poetry that I liked. It
appears by itself at the beginning of an SF novel near the dedication.
Name the Novel, the work the poem is from, and the author of the poem.
"And still the weaver plies his loom,
whose warp and weft are retched man.
Weaving the unpattern'd dark design,
So dark we doubt it owns a plan."
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robh
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response 11 of 89:
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Jun 8 10:33 UTC 1993 |
The last two are easy - _The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner_ and
Coleridge. No idea on which SF novel, though.
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gregc
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response 12 of 89:
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Jun 9 22:59 UTC 1993 |
Bzzzzzzzt, wrong.
I'm interested why you think they were easy.
Maybe *my* source is wrong.
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robh
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response 13 of 89:
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Jun 9 23:41 UTC 1993 |
Hmm, I probably am wrong, but the meter sounds just like the _Rime_.
Oh well.
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vidar
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response 14 of 89:
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Sep 28 23:06 UTC 1993 |
I'm glad you changed your last name you son of a bitch!
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bap
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response 15 of 89:
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Sep 29 01:04 UTC 1993 |
Avatar in "Wizards"
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vidar
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response 16 of 89:
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Sep 29 23:44 UTC 1993 |
bap earns $200 and control of the board.
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bap
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response 17 of 89:
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Oct 12 17:02 UTC 1993 |
here is a tuffy
the one consolation, I thought, was that they couldn't very well attack us from
the air while it went on. Doubtless they'd yank the cloudcover away when
they were ready to strafe us, but our broomsticks could scramble as fast as
their carpets could arrive. Meanwhile, we slogged ahead, a whole division of
us with auxillaries-the 45th, the Lihtening Busters, pride of the United States
Army, tuned intoa a wet misery of men and dragons hunting through the Oregon
hills for the invaders.
I made a slow way through the camp. Water ran off tents and into slit
trenches. Our sentries were, of course, wearing Tarnkappen, but i could see
their footprints form in the mud and hear the boots squelch and the tired
monotonous cursing.
I passed the Air Force strip;they were bivouaced with us, to give
support as needed. A couple of guards stood on duty outside the knockdown
hanger, not bothering with invisibility. There blue uniforms were as mucked a
and bedraggled as my OD's, but hey had shaved, and their insignia-the winged
broomstick and anti-Evil Eye beads-were polished. They saluted me, and i
returned the gesture idly. Esprit de Corps, wild blue yonder, nuts.
Beyond was the armor. The boys had erected portable shelters for
their beasts, so i only saw steam rising out of the cracks and caught the
rank reptile smell. Dragons hate rain, and their drivers were having a hell
of a time controling them.
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matthew
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response 18 of 89:
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Oct 14 04:50 UTC 1993 |
Dosen't ring a bell, but sounds like something I want to read
(once we find out whrere it came from)
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vidar
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response 19 of 89:
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Nov 26 16:19 UTC 1993 |
Odin, May I take one huge step foward?
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bap
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response 20 of 89:
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Nov 29 15:21 UTC 1993 |
Parts of this novel were published as short stories from 1957 thru 1969 in
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction with titles like "Operation
Afreet". The novel was copywrited in 1971.
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vidar
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response 21 of 89:
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Nov 29 22:44 UTC 1993 |
PECHTUL
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bap
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response 22 of 89:
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Dec 1 19:04 UTC 1993 |
Uh no?
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vidar
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response 23 of 89:
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Dec 1 23:49 UTC 1993 |
Uh no what? I do not see to what thou art reffering.
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srw
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response 24 of 89:
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Dec 2 04:20 UTC 1993 |
Mayhap he referreth to "PECHTFUL" ??
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