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legend29 is online now legend29 Post #21  December 28,2009, 12:43am
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Oh carp...I wanna play... but...alas...I have been reading mostly non-fiction all my life (starting with biographies in 4th grade). I did read all of the classics when in middle and high school 'cause I had to for a grade and enjoyed them all and loved Edgar Allan Poe, but I can't quote anything I read. My brain is now filled with useless information...

The only fiction I can remember was way back when I was a wee tot..."Not on a train, not on a plane...not here or there...I will not eat green eggs and ham...I would not, could not Sam I Am"(and I probably mangled that quote!)

*rushing off to brush up on the classics and contemporary fiction!!!!*

Great thread!!!!!
 
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justme27 is offline justme27 Post #22  December 28,2009, 12:04pm
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legend29 wrote :
Oh carp...I wanna play... but...alas...I have been reading mostly non-fiction all my life (starting with biographies in 4th grade). I did read all of the classics when in middle and high school 'cause I had to for a grade and enjoyed them all and loved Edgar Allan Poe, but I can't quote anything I read. My brain is now filled with useless information...

The only fiction I can remember was way back when I was a wee tot..."Not on a train, not on a plane...not here or there...I will not eat green eggs and ham...I would not, could not Sam I Am"(and I probably mangled that quote!)

*rushing off to brush up on the classics and contemporary fiction!!!!*

Great thread!!!!!
You can include non-fiction as well. However, they have to be influential to western society. Examples would be the writing of Herodotus, the Federalist Papers, the works of feminist author Mary Wolsencraft...anything written that has had impact and influence on society.
 
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nnoyles wrote :
Song of Solomon.

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"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.
Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.
Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never."
That's Elie Wiesel, and I think it's from "Night."
 
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This 1985 cautionary tale by a Canadian author included the Latin phrase:

nolite te bastardes carborundorum

Book, author, and translation of the phrase?
 
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LOL...I got modded in a Literature thread.

Oh well, it'll either show up later or not.
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littlebluemonkeymind wrote :
LOL...I got modded in a Literature thread.

Oh well, it'll either show or later or not.
Ya gotta stop trying to quote DH Lawrence.
 
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Spider wrote :
Ya gotta stop trying to quote DH Lawrence.
Better Lawrence than Bukowski.
 
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Neat! Somebody made a literature thread… and nuts! Somebody already used Cervantes… Oh well, there’s always Dream. *grin*

Here’s one for you- a *second* paragraph:

"The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it, a color poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a meter wide…"

And if I finish the description of that face, I’ll make it *way* too easy for you. *grin*
 
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nnoyles wrote :
Song of Solomon. I believe it is chapter 2 verse 16.
Close enough.

2.16.....My beloved is mine and I am his.....

6.3.....I am my Beloved's and my Beloved is Mine.....

j8a
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Wootz wrote :
Neat! Somebody made a literature thread… and nuts! Somebody already used Cervantes… Oh well, there’s always Dream. *grin*

Here’s one for you- a *second* paragraph:

"The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it, a color poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a meter wide…"

And if I finish the description of that face, I’ll make it *way* too easy for you. *grin*
Orwell...1984. I read it in college in 1978 and was terrified by the image of the rat cage.
 
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