The book dialog game - Page 12

issybird · 08-22-2011, 09:22 AM

We seem to be working a sea-faring theme, so here goes:

"The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots."

Hamlet53 · 08-22-2011, 10:02 AM

The Caine Mutiny? I can't say I recognize that quote exactly. It does sound like something one of the characters in that novel (Lieutenant Keefer in particular) might have said.

issybird · 08-22-2011, 10:04 AM

And I didn't even have a chance to use my quote about the strawberries!

Hamlet's up.

Hamlet53 · 08-22-2011, 01:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by issybird

And I didn't even have a chance to use my quote about the strawberries!

Hamlet's up.

Or "Old Yellow Stain?"

A short work, but in my opinion one of the greatest things, word for word, ever written:

“There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me. I feel that then they were calm and beautiful. It must be so, for I often hear people talking about them as though they were.”

poohbear_nc · 08-22-2011, 01:34 PM

Metamorphosis?

issybird · 08-22-2011, 01:43 PM

I was thinking Kafka, too, but it doesn't sound to me like Metamorphosis or The Trial, the only two of his works I've riead.

Hamlet53 · 08-22-2011, 02:32 PM

So the author, Kafka, is identified. I'll give it a few more hours to see if anyone can come up with the title.

Hamlet53 · 08-22-2011, 03:51 PM

Oops, I meant to include another sample in my last post. Not sure if it's a help, but:

Smarting as I was, I said: “The story you told me about your mother and the woman in the garden seems to me not in the least remarkable. Not only have I heard many like it and experienced them, but I've even played a part in some of them. It was quite a natural incident. Do you think that if I had been on the balcony I couldn't have said the same thing and got the same answer from the garden? Such a simple affair.”

When I said that, he seemed very delighted. He remarked that I was well dressed and he particularly liked my tie. And what a fine skin I had. And admissions became most clear and unequivocal when one withdrew them.

poohbear_nc · 08-22-2011, 05:40 PM

Is it a Kafka short story?

Hamlet53 · 08-22-2011, 07:49 PM

So to reveal all the snippets came from the Kafka short piece Conversation with the Supplicant. I personally feel that some of Kafka's best work is in short, some very short (only a couple of paragraphs), writings.

So anyway since was the first to identify it with Kafka I figure he should be next.

poohbear_nc · 08-22-2011, 08:04 PM

OK - here's a fun one:

"The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death."

poohbear_nc · 08-23-2011, 08:19 AM

Hmmmm .... no guesses?

"Well, sir, the two ran into one another naturally enough at the corner; and then came the horrible part of the thing; for the man trampled calmly over the child's body and left her screaming on the ground."

issybird · 08-23-2011, 08:33 AM

It's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, I believe.

poohbear_nc · 08-23-2011, 08:40 AM

You are correct, and to be completely pedantic, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."

Take it away Issy!

issybird · 08-23-2011, 09:50 AM

"...and yes I said yes I will Yes."

08-22-2011, 07:49 PM	#175
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	So to reveal all the snippets came from the Kafka short piece Conversation with the Supplicant. I personally feel that some of Kafka's best work is in short, some very short (only a couple of paragraphs), writings. So anyway since was the first to identify it with Kafka I figure he should be next. Last edited by Hamlet53; 08-23-2011 at 08:08 AM.

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08-22-2011, 09:22 AM	#166
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 20,229 Karma: 222235366 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: H2O, Aura One, PW5	We seem to be working a sea-faring theme, so here goes: "The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots."

08-22-2011, 10:02 AM	#167
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	The Caine Mutiny? I can't say I recognize that quote exactly. It does sound like something one of the characters in that novel (Lieutenant Keefer in particular) might have said.

08-22-2011, 10:04 AM	#168
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 20,229 Karma: 222235366 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: H2O, Aura One, PW5	And I didn't even have a chance to use my quote about the strawberries! Hamlet's up.

08-22-2011, 01:34 PM	#170
poohbear_nc Now what? Posts: 58,865 Karma: 135181808 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Metamorphosis?

08-22-2011, 01:43 PM	#171
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 20,229 Karma: 222235366 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: H2O, Aura One, PW5	I was thinking Kafka, too, but it doesn't sound to me like Metamorphosis or The Trial, the only two of his works I've riead.

08-22-2011, 02:32 PM	#172
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	So the author, Kafka, is identified. I'll give it a few more hours to see if anyone can come up with the title.

08-22-2011, 03:51 PM	#173
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	Oops, I meant to include another sample in my last post. Not sure if it's a help, but: Smarting as I was, I said: “The story you told me about your mother and the woman in the garden seems to me not in the least remarkable. Not only have I heard many like it and experienced them, but I've even played a part in some of them. It was quite a natural incident. Do you think that if I had been on the balcony I couldn't have said the same thing and got the same answer from the garden? Such a simple affair.” When I said that, he seemed very delighted. He remarked that I was well dressed and he particularly liked my tie. And what a fine skin I had. And admissions became most clear and unequivocal when one withdrew them.

08-22-2011, 05:40 PM	#174
poohbear_nc Now what? Posts: 58,865 Karma: 135181808 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Is it a Kafka short story?

08-22-2011, 08:04 PM	#176
poohbear_nc Now what? Posts: 58,865 Karma: 135181808 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	OK - here's a fun one: "The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death."

08-23-2011, 08:19 AM	#177
poohbear_nc Now what? Posts: 58,865 Karma: 135181808 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Hmmmm .... no guesses? "Well, sir, the two ran into one another naturally enough at the corner; and then came the horrible part of the thing; for the man trampled calmly over the child's body and left her screaming on the ground."

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08-23-2011, 08:33 AM	#178
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 20,229 Karma: 222235366 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: H2O, Aura One, PW5	It's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, I believe.

08-23-2011, 08:40 AM	#179
poohbear_nc Now what? Posts: 58,865 Karma: 135181808 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	You are correct, and to be completely pedantic, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Take it away Issy!

08-23-2011, 09:50 AM	#180
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 20,229 Karma: 222235366 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: H2O, Aura One, PW5	"...and yes I said yes I will Yes."