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Grex > Books > #99: The Spring Mysterious Quote item | |
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johnnie
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response 40 of 215:
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Mar 28 15:47 UTC 2001 |
Oh, and howzabout a small clue, of sorts: I've read that the author in
question was the highest-paid writer in the world during the 1930s.
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slynne
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response 41 of 215:
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Mar 28 16:42 UTC 2001 |
W. Somerset Maugham
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brighn
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response 42 of 215:
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Mar 28 17:32 UTC 2001 |
Hmph. Now how am I supposed to taunt people unnoticedly?
Oh yeah, by net searching the next quote. >=}
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brighn
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response 43 of 215:
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Mar 28 17:34 UTC 2001 |
Incidentally, the phrase I did a Yahoo search on was "stomach the heartiness"
(in quotes. I figured there weren't an awful lots of writers who would use
such phraseology, turns out I was right. Heh.
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johnnie
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response 44 of 215:
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Mar 29 00:30 UTC 2001 |
W.S.M. (#41) is correct. Congratulations.
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slynne
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response 45 of 215:
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Mar 29 19:11 UTC 2001 |
Ok, here is my quote:
I was in the dark. Or at least in semidarkness. I always worked best
when the light in the booth was dim. So I was in this half-lit makeshift
booth, in the semidarkness except for a blue glow from my tiny reading
lamp. In the semidarkness, in the makeshift booth in the gray conference
hall on Lexington Avenue in New York City.
My colleague that day was a spotty Liverpudlian who had once put his
hand on my thigh while I was in the middle of a piece of simultaneous
translation. I had shifted my position and carried on translating from
French to English, spouting forth about the size and hue of tomatoes,
and managed after that to avoid his gaze for months. Other female
interpreters had reacted more aggressively to his clammy paws and had
complained to the International Interpreters' Association, but I had
said nothing. These days, for fear of being struck off he picked at his
skin and his cuticles rather than seeking out the thighs of his
colleagues.
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happyboy
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response 46 of 215:
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Mar 29 19:35 UTC 2001 |
"My Life as a Whore" by Martha Stewart?
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slynne
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response 47 of 215:
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Mar 29 20:43 UTC 2001 |
nope. This book was written by a woman though.
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brighn
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response 48 of 215:
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Mar 29 21:08 UTC 2001 |
Hmph, my meager net search failed... ah well, y'all will have to suss this
out on your own.
Just for kicks... Toni Morrisson?
(Hey, I've got a better chance than happyboy =} )
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slynne
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response 49 of 215:
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Mar 29 21:21 UTC 2001 |
I picked a book published just last month.
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remmers
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response 50 of 215:
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Mar 29 22:05 UTC 2001 |
Random guess: Joyce Carol Oates. (She seems to publish a new
book every month or so. ;-)
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arianna
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response 51 of 215:
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Mar 30 04:06 UTC 2001 |
re resp 25: Russ, please direct yourself to item 4, poetry1.
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brighn
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response 52 of 215:
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Mar 30 04:50 UTC 2001 |
Hmmm... the only real candidate at Amazon is Fielding; the subject matter
doesn't seem right though.
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slynne
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response 53 of 215:
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Apr 1 13:54 UTC 2001 |
Ok, here is another clue especially for the web searchers out there.
There is a big hint about the title of this book in the quote I posted.
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slynne
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response 54 of 215:
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Apr 4 14:47 UTC 2001 |
Ok, I guess this is too hard. I'll give the answer and post something
from a different author tomorrow.
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remmers
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response 55 of 215:
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Apr 7 15:13 UTC 2001 |
Yoo hoo, Ms Fremont - new quote, or hint, or something?
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slynne
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response 56 of 215:
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Apr 7 18:07 UTC 2001 |
ooops. I am going to go with a more well known author. ok, here goes:
During the sixties, my father was the perfect hippie, since all the
hippies were trying to be Indians. Because of that, how could anyone
recognize that my father was tyring to make a social statement?
But there is evidence, a photograph of my father demonstrating in
Spokane, Washington, during the Vietnam war. The photograph made it onto
the wire service and was reprinted in newspapers throughout the country,
in fact, it was on the cover of Time.
In the photograph, my father is dressed in bell-bottoms and flowered
shirt, his hair in braids, with red peace symbols splashed across his
face like war paint. In his hands my father holds a rifle above his
head, captured in that moment just before he proceeded to beat the shit
out of the National Guard private lying prone on the ground. A fellow
demonstrator holds a sign that is just barely visible over my father's
left shoulder. It read MAKE LOVE NOT WAR.
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remmers
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response 57 of 215:
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Apr 7 21:39 UTC 2001 |
(Hm, I'll have to think about that one. Who was the first
author you gave, by the way?)
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oddie
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response 58 of 215:
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Apr 7 21:46 UTC 2001 |
Sherman Alexie? (the newer one that is)
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happyboy
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response 59 of 215:
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Apr 7 22:10 UTC 2001 |
jesus that sounded familiar
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slynne
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response 60 of 215:
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Apr 8 04:32 UTC 2001 |
The first author was Suzanne Glass. The book was _Interpreter: A Novel_
I tried to pick a passage that would hint at the title. Oh well, I had
never heard of her either before I picked up her book at work.
oddie has correctly guessed Sherman Alexie. That quote was from a short
story called "Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who
Saw Jimi Hendrix Play 'The Star-Spangled Banner' at Woodstock." which is
found in the collection of short stories entitled, _The Lone Ranger and
Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven_.
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ignatz
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response 61 of 215:
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Apr 8 04:37 UTC 2001 |
ok, i haven't been on in a while to read what people thought of my
correcting the idea of quote vs paragraph. but it was more on the
thoughts, that this being a "poetry conference" that these would be
single line to double line quotes, obscure of course, from poems. not
paragraphs, not whole stanzas then.
a quote would be...
"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair"
-Mother to Son :by Langston Hughes
not...
"By glow of the tail light i stumbled back of the car
and stood by the heap, a doe, a recent killing;
she had stiffened already, almost cold.
i dragged her off; she was large in the belly."
-Traveling through the Dark :by William Stafford
and leave out normal fiction or non-fiction arts, if they are not in
fact poetry. that's my opinion in this matter. this is poetry. let's
have fun with poetry, ok?
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gelinas
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response 62 of 215:
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Apr 8 04:52 UTC 2001 |
No, this is books, so let's have fun with books.
Actually, this item is in BOTH conferences. So it is going to have some
characteristics (and characters ;) of both.
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carson
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response 63 of 215:
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Apr 8 04:52 UTC 2001 |
(poor Erinn.) :^)
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brighn
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response 64 of 215:
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Apr 8 05:28 UTC 2001 |
#61> I'd agree with you if this weren't the only live item in this conference.
Until Poetry picks up, let it be.
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