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Grex > Poetry3 > #245: The Spring Mysterious Quote item |  |
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janc
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response 200 of 215:
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Jun 13 13:46 UTC 2001 |
Not Jules Verne. The "hero" of both quoted books is Flashman. I'm going
to give it to Marcus, because 10 seconds with a web browser would have gotten
him from the name "Flashman" to the name of the author, George MacDonald
Fraser. The first quote, with Flashman shooting General Custer at Little
Big Horn, is from "Flashman and the Redskins". The second, with Flashman
being dragooned into Otto von Bismarck's plot to annex Schleswig/Holstein
to Germany (a critical event in the formation of the German state before
World War I), is from "Royal Flash". I probably would have given you
the Charge of the Light Brigade ("Theirs was not to reason why, theirs was
but to do and die. Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred") or the
Taiping Rebellion (the third bloodiest war in human history) next if someone
hadn't guessed it. Flashman got around.
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gelinas
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response 201 of 215:
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Jun 13 14:37 UTC 2001 |
Which is why I thought it was Sharpe. I'll have to read the Flashman books
after I finish the Sharpe stories.
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jhudson
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response 202 of 215:
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Jun 19 03:28 UTC 2001 |
All that is gold does not glitter.
Not all who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not wither.
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken.
A light from the shadows shall sprint.
Renewed shall be the blade that was broken.
The crownless again shall be king.
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response 203 of 215:
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Jun 19 03:41 UTC 2001 |
(Re: #202 - Tolkien, LOTR)
Got a new quote for us, mdw?
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mdw
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response 204 of 215:
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Jun 19 05:54 UTC 2001 |
Ah right. Well, if Tolkien was easy enough, I'm sure this will be
a snap:
Therein three sisters dwelt of sundry sort,
The children of one syre by mothers three;
Who, dying whylome, did divide this fort
To them by equall shares in equall fee:
But stryfull mind and diverse qualitee
Drew them in partes, and each made others foe:
Still did they strive and daily disagree;
The eldest did against the youngest goe,
And both against the middest meant to worken woe.
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senna
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response 205 of 215:
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Jun 19 11:15 UTC 2001 |
The "blad that was broken" is a fairly specific piece of the plot, if nothing
else gives it away. Other stuff gives it away, though.
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other
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response 206 of 215:
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Jun 19 15:54 UTC 2001 |
I'm thinking Milton or Donne.
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janc
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response 207 of 215:
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Jun 19 20:44 UTC 2001 |
Edumon Spenser? No, probably not.
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janc
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response 208 of 215:
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Jun 19 20:44 UTC 2001 |
Edmond Spenser, I meant to say.
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remmers
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response 209 of 215:
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Jun 19 22:19 UTC 2001 |
I think you're right.
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mdw
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response 210 of 215:
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Jun 20 04:26 UTC 2001 |
Fairie Queen, no less. Jan has it.
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janc
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response 211 of 215:
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Jun 24 02:21 UTC 2001 |
Hmmm...I guess I should do this in the newagora.
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davel
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response 212 of 215:
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Jun 25 12:45 UTC 2001 |
OK, but will someone link the new item to Books, please?
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rcurl
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response 213 of 215:
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Jun 25 15:39 UTC 2001 |
Well, I can do that, but would you ask in the new item, please?
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davel
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response 214 of 215:
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Jun 26 12:26 UTC 2001 |
Rane, I don't read Agora, so I *can't* ask in the new item.
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rcurl
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response 215 of 215:
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Jun 26 17:19 UTC 2001 |
Let me know if I didn't link the right one..... 8^}
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