The book dialog game - Page 41

Daithi · 10-18-2011, 03:31 PM

I couldn't resist. I looked at Issybird's spoiler. I knew I read the book.

Hamlet53 · 10-18-2011, 04:30 PM

So since at least Issybird has it, another short, but very significant clue for anyone who has read the book or seen the film:

Quote:

"Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'."

issybird · 10-18-2011, 05:00 PM

Full disclosure: I wasn't sure with the first quote, was positive after the second, but I also was aware that Hamlet had read it recently, and that could have nudged me in the right direction.

Hamlet53 · 10-18-2011, 08:03 PM

So since Isssybird recognized To Kill a Mockingbird, it is her choice.

issybird · 10-18-2011, 08:26 PM

Staying in the same family, more or less:

I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.

poohbear_nc · 10-18-2011, 08:58 PM

It's southern all right - gotta be either Flannery O'Connor or Carson McCullers. But I don't recall reading this phrase ...... hmmmmm ....

issybird · 10-18-2011, 11:55 PM

This should help tip the balance:

There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

poohbear_nc · 10-19-2011, 08:16 AM

That's Flannery O'Connor - but I can't place it yet .... something is nudging the back of my brain - book about a corrupt preacher? Movie with Tom Cruise? [refusing to Google]

[banged my head into the corner of an open cabinet door Sunday night - think some brains leaked out along with the blood!

]

issybird · 10-19-2011, 08:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

That's Flannery O'Connor - but I can't place it yet .... something is nudging the back of my brain - book about a corrupt preacher? Movie with Tom Cruise? [refusing to Google]

[banged my head into the corner of an open cabinet door Sunday night - think some brains leaked out along with the blood!

]

Ouch!

And you've got it--O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood, about a preacher called Hazel Motes.

Carry on, pooh.

poohbear_nc · 10-19-2011, 09:33 AM

OK - here's a fun(?) one:

“The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.”

“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”

poohbear_nc · 10-19-2011, 10:04 AM

And:

“It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.”

“Just remember... life without me would be even more unbearable.”

poohbear_nc · 10-19-2011, 10:59 AM

And:

“Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.”

Happy guessing!

issybird · 10-19-2011, 01:38 PM

Sounds like vampires. The only ones I'm familiar with are those of the Buffy-verse, so I'll watch for now.

poohbear_nc · 10-19-2011, 02:09 PM

Well .... Halloween is approaching ....

“And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have.”

“Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?”

“Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!”

Daithi · 10-19-2011, 02:48 PM

It sounds like Anne Rice, but I'm not sure which one. I'm thinking either Menoch the Devil, or Interview with a Vampire.

10-19-2011, 02:09 PM	#614
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,630 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Well .... Halloween is approaching .... “And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have.” “Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?” “Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!” Last edited by poohbear_nc; 10-19-2011 at 02:21 PM.

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10-18-2011, 03:31 PM	#601
Daithi Publishers are evil! Posts: 2,418 Karma: 36205264 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Rhode Island Device: Various Kindles	I couldn't resist. I looked at Issybird's spoiler. I knew I read the book.

10-18-2011, 05:00 PM	#603
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,341 Karma: 234636059 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	Full disclosure: I wasn't sure with the first quote, was positive after the second, but I also was aware that Hamlet had read it recently, and that could have nudged me in the right direction.

10-18-2011, 08:03 PM	#604
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	So since Isssybird recognized To Kill a Mockingbird, it is her choice.

10-18-2011, 08:26 PM	#605
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,341 Karma: 234636059 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	Staying in the same family, more or less: I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.

10-18-2011, 08:58 PM	#606
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,630 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	It's southern all right - gotta be either Flannery O'Connor or Carson McCullers. But I don't recall reading this phrase ...... hmmmmm ....

10-18-2011, 11:55 PM	#607
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,341 Karma: 234636059 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	This should help tip the balance: There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

10-19-2011, 08:16 AM	#608
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,630 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	That's Flannery O'Connor - but I can't place it yet .... something is nudging the back of my brain - book about a corrupt preacher? Movie with Tom Cruise? [refusing to Google] [banged my head into the corner of an open cabinet door Sunday night - think some brains leaked out along with the blood! ]

10-19-2011, 09:33 AM	#610
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,630 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	OK - here's a fun(?) one: “The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.” “Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”

10-19-2011, 10:04 AM	#611
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,630 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	And: “It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.” “Just remember... life without me would be even more unbearable.”

10-19-2011, 10:59 AM	#612
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,630 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	And: “Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.” Happy guessing!

10-19-2011, 01:38 PM	#613
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,341 Karma: 234636059 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	Sounds like vampires. The only ones I'm familiar with are those of the Buffy-verse, so I'll watch for now.

10-19-2011, 02:48 PM	#615
Daithi Publishers are evil! Posts: 2,418 Karma: 36205264 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Rhode Island Device: Various Kindles	It sounds like Anne Rice, but I'm not sure which one. I'm thinking either Menoch the Devil, or Interview with a Vampire.