The book dialog game

[orlok]

One of the Brontë sisters?

[issybird]

Originally Posted by orlok

One of the Brontë sisters?

Later than the Brontës and Wilde.

This should do it, I hope:

Gudrun paddled almost imperceptibly. Gerald could see, not far ahead, the rich blue and the rose globes of Ursula’s lanterns swaying softly cheek to cheek as Birkin rowed, and iridescent, evanescent gleams chasing in the wake. He was aware, too, of his own delicately coloured lights casting their softness behind him.

[orlok]

I'm still not sure, but I'll guess again with D. H. Lawrence?

[issybird]

Originally Posted by orlok

I'm still not sure, but I'll guess again with D. H. Lawrence?

Lawrence it is. Women in Love, to put us out of our misery. I thought the names of the four principals would do it.

Over to orlok!

[orlok]

Originally Posted by issybird

Lawrence it is. Women in Love, to put us out of our misery. I thought the names of the four principals would do it.

Over to orlok!

The names must have been sitting there somewhere in the grey matter - my main memory of the story is from Ken Russel's film version, where Bates and Reed wrestle in the nude . I was actually more of a Lady Chatterley fan myself...

How about this one:

"You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked--those pale, chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes!--as they stared in their blindness and bewilderment."

[poohbear_nc]

Wells - The Time Machine?

[issybird]

Originally Posted by orlok

Ken Russel's film version, where Bates and Reed wrestle in the nude

Lemme fix that:

Ken Russel's film version, where Bates and Reed wrestle in the nude

Much better.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Wells - The Time Machine?

Well done! Thought it would take a bit longer than that. Over to you, pooh.

Originally Posted by issybird

Lemme fix that:

Much better.

. What I can say is it made me feel less inadequate as a man...

[poohbear_nc]

Well done! Thought it would take a bit longer than that. Over to you, pooh

For some reason it jumped out at me! Maybe I was traumatized by the film version too!

How about this?

"I suppose I needn't take more than a few summer things and a shroud, need I?"

[poohbear_nc]

And:

And now, throwing back her head wearily, she sighed: "Oh, I'm so worthless."

[orlok]

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood?

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by orlok

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood?

Nope .... some more quotes to tantalize you with:

"It was rather hard to be finished with life at twenty-seven."

"Was it what they called -- a broken heart - that he suffered from?"

"They spoke a different language, not only of the tongue but of the heart."

Some longer ones in a bit.

[poohbear_nc]

And:

“I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.”

[poohbear_nc]

One more, and then you're on your own:

"Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither."

[issybird]

The Painted Veil, Somerset Maugham.. I love the shroud quote.