The book dialog game - Page 65

poohbear_nc · 07-27-2012, 08:31 AM

H2G2 - the truck driver that could never escape the rain - methinks!

eskimo49 · 07-27-2012, 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

H2G2 - the truck driver that could never escape the rain - methinks!

Obviously I made it too easy for you.

You have the con.

poohbear_nc · 07-27-2012, 09:21 AM

Okie dokie! Try this one.

“The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.”

Daithi · 07-27-2012, 07:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Okie dokie! Try this one.

“The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.”

I thought for sure I had not read this book, so I just looked up the quote. It turns out I have read it, but now I'm out of the quiz.

Nice pick, Poohbear.

eskimo49 · 07-28-2012, 04:58 AM

Doesn't sound like a book I've read yet. Could be anything from 19th century communication by telegraph to Harry Potter travel by floo powder.

poohbear_nc · 07-28-2012, 09:15 AM

How about adding this?

“Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.”

poohbear_nc · 07-28-2012, 10:01 AM

And:

“But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.”

poohbear_nc · 07-29-2012, 10:44 AM

OK ... how about adding:

“The confrontation lasted about five minutes; then the display died out as quickly as it had begun, and everyone drank his fill of the muddy water. Honor had been satisfied; each group had staked its claim to its own territory.”

HomeInMyShoes · 07-30-2012, 02:56 PM

The first quote was making me think Noam Chomsky and Manufacturing Consent, but the rest doesn't fit.

poohbear_nc · 07-30-2012, 05:45 PM

It's fiction .... or is it?

poohbear_nc · 07-30-2012, 05:47 PM

And ...

“The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must
say farewell to her children.”

issybird · 07-30-2012, 07:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

And ...

“The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must
say farewell to her children.”

This sounds like sci-fi to me; if so, it's one reason I'm clueless.*

*General obtuseness being another.

poohbear_nc · 07-30-2012, 07:48 PM

OK, how about this?

“He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand.”

poohbear_nc · 07-30-2012, 07:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by issybird

This sounds like sci-fi to me; if so, it's one reason I'm clueless.*

*General obtuseness being another.

I venture to guess you have read this ... perhaps ...

WT Sharpe · 07-30-2012, 09:22 PM

The last one did it for me. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. Been many years since I read that.

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07-27-2012, 08:31 AM	#961
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,646 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	H2G2 - the truck driver that could never escape the rain - methinks!

07-27-2012, 09:21 AM	#963
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,646 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Okie dokie! Try this one. “The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.”

07-28-2012, 04:58 AM	#965
eskimo49 Addict Posts: 263 Karma: 1492476 Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Scotland Device: Kindle	Doesn't sound like a book I've read yet. Could be anything from 19th century communication by telegraph to Harry Potter travel by floo powder.

07-28-2012, 09:15 AM	#966
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,646 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	How about adding this? “Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.”

07-28-2012, 10:01 AM	#967
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,646 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	And: “But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.”

07-29-2012, 10:44 AM	#968
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,646 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	OK ... how about adding: “The confrontation lasted about five minutes; then the display died out as quickly as it had begun, and everyone drank his fill of the muddy water. Honor had been satisfied; each group had staked its claim to its own territory.”

07-30-2012, 02:56 PM	#969
HomeInMyShoes Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,226 Karma: 67780237 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	The first quote was making me think Noam Chomsky and Manufacturing Consent, but the rest doesn't fit.

07-30-2012, 05:45 PM	#970
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,646 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	It's fiction .... or is it?

07-30-2012, 05:47 PM	#971
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,646 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	And ... “The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.”

07-30-2012, 07:48 PM	#973
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,646 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	OK, how about this? “He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand.”

07-30-2012, 09:22 PM	#975
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	The last one did it for me. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. Been many years since I read that.