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remmers
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That Gosh Darn Mysterious Quote Item
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Dec 24 03:33 UTC 2000 |
A "mysterious quote" item was a standard feature of Agora for
several years; this is an attempt to revive it.
Here's how the game works: Someone posts a quote from a published
work. It can be anything -- prose, poetry, fiction, nonfiction.
The first person to guess the author correctly gets to post the
next quote.
A few guidelines: The author should be someone people are likely
to have heard of. If people are having trouble, you should give
a hint or two, or post another quote by the same author.
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remmers
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response 1 of 98:
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Dec 24 03:34 UTC 2000 |
Okay, I'll start. Here's a quote:
Of the two females, the aunt now required the most
soothing, for she was perfectly beside herself with terror.
As to the young lady, there was something, even in the
spectre of her lover, that seemed endearing. There was
still the semblance of manly beauty; and though the shadow
of a man is but little calculated to satisfy the affections
of a lovesick girl, yet, where the substance is not to be
had, even that is consoling. The aunt declared she would
never sleep in that chamber again; the niece, for once, was
refactory, and declared as strongly that she would sleep in
no other in the castle: the consequence was, that she had
to sleep in it alone; but she drew a promise from her aunt
not to relate the story of the spectre, lest she should be
denied the only melancholy pleasure left her on earth --
that of inhabiting the chamber over which the guardian shad
of her lover kept its nightly vigils.
Remember, the object is to identify the *author*.
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remmers
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response 2 of 98:
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Dec 24 03:48 UTC 2000 |
(typo: last word on next-to-last line should be "shade")
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rcurl
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response 3 of 98:
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Dec 24 04:12 UTC 2000 |
Winter agora Item 21: That Gosh Darn Mysterious Quote Item - has been
linked to books 96.
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polygon
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response 4 of 98:
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Dec 24 04:14 UTC 2000 |
This sounds like James Thurber.
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gary
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response 5 of 98:
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Dec 24 07:48 UTC 2000 |
eagar allen poe
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md
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response 6 of 98:
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Dec 24 14:53 UTC 2000 |
Could be anybody. Edith Wharton?
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remmers
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response 7 of 98:
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Dec 24 17:48 UTC 2000 |
Not Thurber, not Poe, not Wharton.
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davel
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response 8 of 98:
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Dec 24 21:25 UTC 2000 |
James Branch Cabell?
I could swear I've read this thing, but I just don't know. It's really a bit
unlike Cabell, but it could be his, & I can't think of anyone better to
guess.
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remmers
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response 9 of 98:
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Dec 24 21:28 UTC 2000 |
Not Cabell.
Hint: 19th century author.
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