The book dialog game

[orlok]

Friedrich Nietzsche ?

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by orlok

Friedrich Nietzsche ?

From his Thus Spoke Zarathustra! Take it away, orlok!

[Daithi]

Originally Posted by orlok

Friedrich Nietzsche ?

I think you are right, based on the last clue. He's on my "To Read" list, but he has been there for a long time.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Daithi

I think you are right, based on the last clue. He's on my "To Read" list, but he has been there for a long time.

He is indeed! We were posting at the same time!

[orlok]

Thought it might be - the Superman concept from the book features in a nasty little short story of mine.

Ok, try this, a line from one of my favourites:

"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."

[Daithi]

Originally Posted by orlok

Thought it might be - the Superman concept from the book features in a nasty little short story of mine.

Ok, try this, a line from one of my favourites:

"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."

That is a great line. It's also a line I'm sure I would have remembered if I had read it, so I'm just about positive that I haven't. Once again, great line.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by orlok

Ok, try this, a line from one of my favourites:

"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Edward Albee.

Anyone up for a round of Get the Guest?

[orlok]

Originally Posted by issybird

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Edward Albee.

Anyone up for a round of Get the Guest?

Very well done, and quick. I had a string of quotations lined up...another one I really like is:

"Martha is a hundred and twenty-five…year old. She weighs somewhat more than that. How old is your wife?"

Over to you, issy.

[issybird]

If someone's got a quote cued, feel free to post. Otherwise I'll get one up later this evening.

[issybird]

OK, here's one:

What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.

[orlok]

Oscar Wilde?

[issybird]

Originally Posted by orlok

Oscar Wilde?

No.

Here's a few more:

"When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people."

"Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is over-past, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot."

“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”

[orlok]

Cheery soul, weren't they? Going to have to have a think...Gore Vidal?

[issybird]

Originally Posted by orlok

Cheery soul, weren't they? Going to have to have a think...Gore Vidal?

No. You were much closer with Wilde. I'll post a couple of easier quotes in a bit.

[issybird]

This will help.

And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.

And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.