The book dialog game - Page 34

Hamlet53 · 10-09-2011, 12:21 PM

No guesses at all? To bad HarryT does not participate as I'm sure he would recognize this one. So sometimes the very start or end of a book is what remains in memory:

Quote:

'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!'

poohbear_nc · 10-09-2011, 12:44 PM

Ahhh .... a dead give away clue .... Dickens! And I'd guess Hard Times from that last clue.

Hamlet53 · 10-09-2011, 02:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Ahhh .... a dead give away clue .... Dickens! And I'd guess Hard Times from that last clue.

Hard Times it is. Once more poohbear_nc must select.

poohbear_nc · 10-09-2011, 03:07 PM

OK - here goes:

"One isn't supposed to talk about that sort of thing. One isn't supposed to talk about anything much."
"I know. It's how we hide our prejudices and go on living with them."

poohbear_nc · 10-09-2011, 04:25 PM

And:

"This is the story of a rape, of the events that led up to it and followed it and of the place in which it happened. There are the action, the people, and the place; all of which are interrelated but in their totality incommunicable in isolation from the moral continuum of human affairs"

issybird · 10-09-2011, 05:30 PM

Has to be Jewel in the Crown.

poohbear_nc · 10-09-2011, 06:50 PM

Indeed it is! Welcome back & take it away!
[haven't seen your smiling face in this thread for a bit]

issybird · 10-09-2011, 07:10 PM

Thanks! Stuff going on combined with no knowledge of fantasy kept me on the sidelines.

Here we go:

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

and

"Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness."

and

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Hamlet53 · 10-09-2011, 07:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Indeed it is! Welcome back & take it away!
[haven't seen your smiling face in this thread for a bit]

Indeed good to have her in the mix once more. Though one does has to look behind the avatar to see the smiling soul beneath.

Quote:

Originally Posted by issybird

Thanks! Stuff going on combined with no knowledge of fantasy kept me on the sidelines.

Me too.

issybird · 10-09-2011, 08:30 PM

Thanks! I look smilier when my lower plate is in.

I couldn't resist a few pithy but not very obvious quotes. This should be more helpful (although not to the extent of leaving in the eponymous character's name):

As Mirah had gone on speaking she had become possessed with a sorrowful passion – fervent, not violent. Holding her little hands tightly clasped and looking at Mrs. Meyrick with beseeching, she seemed to XXXXXXX a personification of that spirit which impelled men after a long inheritance of professed Catholicism to leave wealth and high place, and to risk their lives in flight that they might join their own people and say, “I am a Jew.”

poohbear_nc · 10-09-2011, 08:45 PM

Hmmmm ..... not ringing a bell on this one ....
From the diction ... 19th C?

issybird · 10-09-2011, 09:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Hmmmm ..... not ringing a bell on this one ....
From the diction ... 19th C?

Yup. One of the Victorians. Not her most famous work, however.

poohbear_nc · 10-10-2011, 08:21 AM

Her = George Eliot?

Most unknown work (I've never read it) = Daniel Deronda?

Bilbo1967 · 10-10-2011, 08:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Her = George Eliot?

Most unknown work (I've never read it) = Daniel Deronda?

Silly! George is a boy's name

issybird · 10-10-2011, 09:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Her = George Eliot?

Most unknown work (I've never read it) = Daniel Deronda?

And the bear takes it. The big clue was a reference to being a Jew, but obviously there was enough to go by otherwise.

What have you got for us, pooh?

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10-09-2011, 12:44 PM	#497
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,613 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Ahhh .... a dead give away clue .... Dickens! And I'd guess Hard Times from that last clue.

10-09-2011, 03:07 PM	#499
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,613 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	OK - here goes: "One isn't supposed to talk about that sort of thing. One isn't supposed to talk about anything much." "I know. It's how we hide our prejudices and go on living with them."

10-09-2011, 04:25 PM	#500
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,613 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	And: "This is the story of a rape, of the events that led up to it and followed it and of the place in which it happened. There are the action, the people, and the place; all of which are interrelated but in their totality incommunicable in isolation from the moral continuum of human affairs"

10-09-2011, 05:30 PM	#501
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,336 Karma: 234636059 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	Has to be Jewel in the Crown.

10-09-2011, 06:50 PM	#502
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,613 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Indeed it is! Welcome back & take it away! [haven't seen your smiling face in this thread for a bit]

10-09-2011, 07:10 PM	#503
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,336 Karma: 234636059 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	Thanks! Stuff going on combined with no knowledge of fantasy kept me on the sidelines. Here we go: A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. and "Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness." and Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

10-09-2011, 08:30 PM	#505
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,336 Karma: 234636059 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	Thanks! I look smilier when my lower plate is in. I couldn't resist a few pithy but not very obvious quotes. This should be more helpful (although not to the extent of leaving in the eponymous character's name): As Mirah had gone on speaking she had become possessed with a sorrowful passion – fervent, not violent. Holding her little hands tightly clasped and looking at Mrs. Meyrick with beseeching, she seemed to XXXXXXX a personification of that spirit which impelled men after a long inheritance of professed Catholicism to leave wealth and high place, and to risk their lives in flight that they might join their own people and say, “I am a Jew.”

10-09-2011, 08:45 PM	#506
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,613 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Hmmmm ..... not ringing a bell on this one .... From the diction ... 19th C?

10-10-2011, 08:21 AM	#508
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,613 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Her = George Eliot? Most unknown work (I've never read it) = Daniel Deronda?