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Grex > Books > #99: The Spring Mysterious Quote item | |
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senna
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response 139 of 215:
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May 16 22:17 UTC 2001 |
I would have gotten it if slynne hadn't. The first sentence was a dead
giveaway.
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aruba
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response 140 of 215:
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May 17 03:38 UTC 2001 |
Likewise.
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carson
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response 141 of 215:
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May 17 05:41 UTC 2001 |
(uh, no one's gotten it yet.)
(rumors and hunting, is it Joseph Conrad?)
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davel
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response 142 of 215:
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May 17 12:36 UTC 2001 |
I also would have gotten jep's, if I'd logged in soon enough.
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brighn
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response 143 of 215:
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May 17 13:46 UTC 2001 |
I like blind stabs: King
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aruba
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response 144 of 215:
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May 17 14:13 UTC 2001 |
Orson Scott Card?
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slynne
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response 145 of 215:
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May 17 16:01 UTC 2001 |
It is not Joseph Conrad, King or Orson Scott Card.
Here is a hint: This author is very well known but this quotation is not
from his most well known work, a work that is mostly well known for
political reasons.
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remmers
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response 146 of 215:
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May 17 16:49 UTC 2001 |
Alan Paton?
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brighn
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response 147 of 215:
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May 17 17:07 UTC 2001 |
Ginsberg? >=}
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slynne
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response 148 of 215:
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May 17 20:03 UTC 2001 |
nope and nope.
Here is another passage from the same novel:
In the remote border town of Q., which when seen from the air
resembles nothing so much as an ill-proportioned dumb-bell, there once
lived three lovely, and loving, sisters. Their names...but their real
names were never used, like the best household china, which was locked
away after the night of their joint tragedy in a cupboard whose location
was eventually forgotten, so that the great thousand-piece service from
the Gardner potteries in Tsarist Russia became a family myth in whose
factuality they almost ceased to belive...the three sisters, I should
state without further delay, bore the family name of Shakil, and were
universally known (in decending order of age) as Chhunni, Munnee and
Bunny.
And one day their father died.
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mooncat
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response 149 of 215:
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May 17 20:53 UTC 2001 |
Neil Gaiman?
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gelinas
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response 150 of 215:
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May 17 21:07 UTC 2001 |
I don't have a good quote, but I'm still going to guess: George Orwell.
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slynne
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response 151 of 215:
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May 17 21:11 UTC 2001 |
nope and nope
I have a couple of hints I could give you but they would be too easy. I
am trying to think of a medium hint but I'll give the easy hint in a
couple of days for sure.
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brighn
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response 152 of 215:
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May 17 21:18 UTC 2001 |
This is a bad guess, but since Joe did Orwell, we can't get much worse: Rand
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gelinas
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response 153 of 215:
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May 17 21:20 UTC 2001 |
I can think of two more possibilities, but I can only remember one name:
Graham Greene. (I've a collection of his stories, but it never made it to
the top of the "books to read" stack.)
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slynne
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response 154 of 215:
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May 17 21:39 UTC 2001 |
No, but you guys are giving good guesses.
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slynne
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response 155 of 215:
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May 17 21:41 UTC 2001 |
Ok, here is another hint: He was born in India.
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mooncat
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response 156 of 215:
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May 17 21:53 UTC 2001 |
Baba Ram Das?
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mooncat
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response 157 of 215:
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May 17 21:53 UTC 2001 |
(oh wait... he was born here... never mind. <grins>)
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aruba
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response 158 of 215:
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May 17 22:14 UTC 2001 |
Kipling?
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stacie
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response 159 of 215:
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May 17 22:35 UTC 2001 |
This book is a nice post-modernist piece of work. I hope that doesn't give
it away! ;-)
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carson
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response 160 of 215:
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May 17 23:29 UTC 2001 |
(is it Deepak Chopra?)
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danr
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response 161 of 215:
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May 18 00:45 UTC 2001 |
VS Naipaul (sp?)
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gelinas
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response 162 of 215:
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May 18 02:24 UTC 2001 |
(Orwell served as a British officer in Southeast Asia; 'twas a memory of
his tale of when he shot a "rogue" elephant that made me suggest him.)
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brighn
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response 163 of 215:
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May 18 03:31 UTC 2001 |
I was actually going to guess this before the India and post-modern hints,
when I really thought about the politics comment, but it does happen to fit
the other clues: Salman Rushdie
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