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Grex > Books > #79: The Mysterious Quote - Winter 1999 Edition | |
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jiffer
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response 34 of 195:
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Jan 13 23:01 UTC 1999 |
Darn, Moll Flanders just popped into my head, but that was done in England
and written by a man.
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hhsrat
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response 35 of 195:
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Jan 14 01:11 UTC 1999 |
Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell
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russ
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response 36 of 195:
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Jan 14 04:14 UTC 1999 |
This can only be from "Black Beauty". I could not name the
author if my life depended on it, and I don't have the WWW
at home to go search for it.
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russ
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response 37 of 195:
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Jan 14 04:15 UTC 1999 |
Dang, the people who slip in during off-line edits.
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jep
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response 38 of 195:
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Jan 14 15:47 UTC 1999 |
You got it, hhsrat! Anna Sewell it is. You're up.
Russ, my drill sergeants used to give some good advice: "There's the
quick and the dead." How long could it take you to write the name of
the author?
By the way, this book is available via electronic text from Project
Gutenberg. The URL where I got my quotes is:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext95/bbeau10.txt
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hhsrat
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response 39 of 195:
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Jan 14 17:02 UTC 1999 |
Ok, here goes
"She scraped a patch of ground bare of pine needles and leaves, and
there scratched his name in the dirt with a twig. Then she made a small
teepee of twigs and needles and lit a small fire. It made smoke that
interwove with the branches and needles of the pine overhead. All the
way into space, she said silently. All the way to the Battle School.
No letters had ever come, and as far as they knew their own letters had
never reached him. When he first was taken, Father and Mother sat at
the table and keyed in long letters to him every few days. Soon,
though, it was once a week, and when no answers came, once a month. Now
it had been two years since he went, and there were no letters, none at
all, and no remembrance on his birthday. He is dead, she thought
bitterly, because we have forgotten him."
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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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