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remmers
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Diamonds in the Sky
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Jul 7 10:18 UTC 1994 |
it
it was the
it was the epoch of
it was the season of Darkness
it was the winter of
we had nothing
we were she
was she wore
she walked as if
her hair was a fine tawny
her eyes were slate
she came over
her mouth
her
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remmers
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response 1 of 8:
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Jul 10 02:25 UTC 1994 |
(The challenge: Identify the literary works from which these
diamonds were mined.)
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rcurl
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response 2 of 8:
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Jul 10 07:36 UTC 1994 |
Free association yields Steinbeck's _Winter of our discontent_, and
Byron's _She walks in beauty_, though tawny never met raven.
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remmers
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response 3 of 8:
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Jul 10 12:03 UTC 1994 |
Nope - not Steinbeck, not Byron.
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remmers
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response 4 of 8:
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Jul 12 20:56 UTC 1994 |
No further takers, eh? Okay, as hint I'll state that the first
diamond is phrases from the very famous first paragraph of a
very famous classic of literature. The second is more obscure, as
it's excerpted from somewhere in the middle of distinctly less
classic -- although still reasonably well-known -- work.
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rcurl
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response 5 of 8:
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Jul 13 06:51 UTC 1994 |
Let's try Dickens' _Tale of Two Cities_ for the first. ("It was the
best of times, it was the worst of times..."). Could the second be ..
_She_? (Haggard)
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remmers
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response 6 of 8:
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Jul 13 07:44 UTC 1994 |
Yes, the first is _Tale of Two Cities_. But the second is not _She_.
Less exotic than that.
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orinoco
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response 7 of 8:
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Aug 23 17:56 UTC 1994 |
I
I try
My hand at
Penning one of
Them thar
diamond
things
and
fail
o well
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gerund
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response 8 of 8:
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Aug 23 20:56 UTC 1994 |
Re #7- a diamond in the rough.
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