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Grex > Books > #79: The Mysterious Quote - Winter 1999 Edition | |
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mcnally
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response 40 of 195:
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Jan 14 17:51 UTC 1999 |
I'd guess Orson Scott Card..
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aruba
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response 41 of 195:
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Jan 14 18:20 UTC 1999 |
Sounds like a good guess to me.
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valkyrie
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response 42 of 195:
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Jan 14 20:28 UTC 1999 |
bah, one I finally knew, too :) It's from "Ender's Game".
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remmers
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response 43 of 195:
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Jan 14 20:38 UTC 1999 |
(I would not have gotten this one.)
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sjones
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response 44 of 195:
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Jan 14 21:44 UTC 1999 |
oh, curses, black beauty is one of my favourite books - that'll teach me
to go and have a busy week!
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hhsrat
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response 45 of 195:
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Jan 14 23:08 UTC 1999 |
That didn't last long. mcnally got it on the first guess.
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other
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response 46 of 195:
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Jan 15 06:51 UTC 1999 |
i knew it as soon as my eyes passed over the words "Battle School" and i
haven't read the book in years.
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void
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response 47 of 195:
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Jan 15 23:23 UTC 1999 |
same here. _ender's game_ is one of my favorite books, and orson
scott card one of the very few series writers i'll read.
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hhsrat
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response 48 of 195:
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Jan 16 02:50 UTC 1999 |
Maybe I should have selected a different passage :)
I didn't know that Orson Scott Card had written other books. Do you
have any titles?
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hhsrat
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response 49 of 195:
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Jan 16 02:52 UTC 1999 |
And then, I go and spell Ender's name wrong. Its been a long week
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aruba
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response 50 of 195:
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Jan 16 06:27 UTC 1999 |
Re #48: Orson Scott Card has written a number of books. I particularly like
the Alvin Maker books, which are about an alternate 19th-century America in
which folk magic works. The first book is "Seventh Son", and it'll hook ya.
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remmers
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response 51 of 195:
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Jan 16 12:08 UTC 1999 |
Card seems to have written around 30 books. See bibliography at
http://www.hatrack.com/osc/bibliography/index.shtml
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aruba
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response 52 of 195:
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Jan 16 14:45 UTC 1999 |
(Hatrack is the name of a fictional town in the Alvin Maker books.)
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sjones
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response 53 of 195:
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Jan 16 18:03 UTC 1999 |
and now i'm keeping my fingers crossed that in a superb double bluff
mcnally'll give us another quote from black beauty...:)
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sjones
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response 54 of 195:
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Jan 19 19:13 UTC 1999 |
hey, mcnally, i was only joking... a quote from anywhere would do...:)
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mcnally
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response 55 of 195:
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Jan 20 19:17 UTC 1999 |
Give me a moment, I've been busy lately..
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sjones
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response 56 of 195:
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Jan 21 20:19 UTC 1999 |
sorry, didn't want to sound pushy...
just still over-excited at missing black beauty...!
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aruba
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response 57 of 195:
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Jan 25 23:37 UTC 1999 |
Anything coming to you, Mike?
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mcnally
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response 58 of 195:
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Jan 26 01:12 UTC 1999 |
Have a book selected, quote soon when I find a good passage. If I haven't
posted anything by 12:01 AM on Jan 28, go ahead..
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mcnally
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response 59 of 195:
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Jan 28 07:11 UTC 1999 |
OK, this isn't quite the quote I was looking for but it displays some
of the most readily identifiable aspects of this author's writing..
It's part of a longer section which I'll post if this is not quickly
identified. I'm not sure how to guage the likelihood of a quick guess
with this author -- certainly not as widely read by Grexers as the last
but not likely to be unknown, either.. Anyways, on with the quote..
"Our good wishes to you, sir" said A__. "Our business
here is ordinary: we seek food and shelter during this
stormy night for which we will pay in suitable degree."
"I can provide shelter," said the crofter, "as for
payment, 'suitable' for me might be 'unsuitable'
for you. Sometimes those misunderstandings put people
at the outs."
A__ searched the contents of his wallet. "Here is
a silver half-florin. If this will suffice, we have
eliminated the problem."
"Well spoken!" declared the crofter. "The times of
the world would flow in halcyon joy if everyone were so
open-hearted and forthright as you! Give me the coin."
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sjones
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response 60 of 195:
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Jan 28 15:55 UTC 1999 |
oh. that wouldn't be black beauty, then, would it?...:)
something nineteenth centuryish, or possibly even a little earlier?
what a well-educated crofter he sounds...
nope. i'm just going to have to sit around and think about black
beauty...)
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mcnally
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response 61 of 195:
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Jan 28 18:18 UTC 1999 |
Simon is absolutely correct that this was not excerpted from "Black Beauty"
or any other work of Anna Sewell. I did toy with the idea of repeating a
previous writer just to see if anyone was paying attention but to my
knowledge this person has not been used before.
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wgm
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response 62 of 195:
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Jan 28 23:21 UTC 1999 |
Hardy?
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mcnally
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response 63 of 195:
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Jan 29 05:06 UTC 1999 |
Nope.
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davel
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response 64 of 195:
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Jan 29 12:29 UTC 1999 |
Laurence Sterne? I never read _Tristram_Shandy_, so I really don't know
whether it's even a reasonable wild guess.
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