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md
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The Mysterious Quote Item
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Oct 11 14:26 UTC 2003 |
Ths is the mysterious quote item. In this item, you have to enter a
quote which, by its style or its content, should enable a liberally
educated reader to guess its author without having to do a Google
search. If we have to start playing 20 questions, you've probably
failed.
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md
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response 1 of 224:
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Oct 11 14:34 UTC 2003 |
Btw, the person who guesses the author gets to enter the next quote.
Here's one to start:
"While the eyes of all men were upon this event, admiring the justice
displayed in their deserved deaths, the same eyes were suddenly taken
off from this sight to admire at the mysterious ways of the same power
in the melancholy fate of the young and virtuous daughter, the lady
Cordelia, whose good deeds did seem to deserve a more fortunate
conclusion: but it is an awful truth, that innocence and piety are not
always successful in this world. The forces which Goneril and Regan had
sent out under the command of the bad earl of Gloucester were
victorious, and Cordelia, by the practices of this wicked earl, who did
not like that any should stand between him and the throne, ended her
life in prison. Thus, Heaven took this innocent lady to itself in her
young years, after showing her to the world an illustrious example of
filial duty. Lear did not long survive this kind child."
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slynne
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response 2 of 224:
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Oct 11 14:42 UTC 2003 |
All I can think of is King Lear by Shakespeare but that passage doesnt
sound very Shakespearian.
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md
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response 3 of 224:
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Oct 11 14:48 UTC 2003 |
Nope.
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remmers
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response 4 of 224:
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Oct 11 17:22 UTC 2003 |
The passage is certainly about King Lear, but it's also certainly
a commentary on the play by some other author.
No author in particular jumps out at me, but the writing style
seems 20th century. Maybe some current literary critic. For no
better reason than that he's the first one to come to mind, I'll
guess Harold Bloom.
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remmers
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response 5 of 224:
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Oct 11 17:24 UTC 2003 |
(Thanks to md for reviving this item, by the way!)
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other
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response 6 of 224:
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Oct 11 17:56 UTC 2003 |
I would have guessed Bloom as well.
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tod
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response 7 of 224:
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Oct 11 19:32 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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carson
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response 8 of 224:
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Oct 11 23:49 UTC 2003 |
<linked to games>
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md
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response 9 of 224:
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Oct 12 00:05 UTC 2003 |
*So* not Harold Bloom.
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mcnally
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response 10 of 224:
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Oct 12 01:43 UTC 2003 |
Elia?
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md
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response 11 of 224:
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Oct 12 14:29 UTC 2003 |
And...?
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remmers
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response 12 of 224:
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Oct 12 14:30 UTC 2003 |
(That was going to be my next guess.)
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md
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response 13 of 224:
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Oct 12 14:34 UTC 2003 |
But unless Elia was two people, which I don't believe he was, that's
only half the answer. McNally probably has it, though, so let's
declare him the winner. Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles Lamb
("Elia") and his sister Mary. It's a children's book, as evidence the
glossing over of the ghastly pathos of Cordelia's and Lear's deaths.
McNally's up.
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