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justme27 is offline justme27 Post #1  December 25,2009, 6:57pm
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There I put up a darn avatar is everyone happy! T.S. Eliot very pretentious

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So, I'll post the first question then whoever answers it can post there own question about literature:

Hemingway's Novel for Whom the Bell Tolls is inspired by what poem and what poet?
 
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justme27 wrote :
So, I'll post the first question then whoever answers it can post there own question about literature:

Hemingway's Novel for Whom the Bell Tolls is inspired by what poem and what poet?
No Man is an Island.....by John Donne

Call me Ishmael.....is the first sentence of what book by what author?

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Moby Dick by Melville.

Name the book and author for the following quote:

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
 
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Geeze, I know the author. It has to be Jane Austen, but I'm uncertain if it is Pride and Prejudice or Emma. I'm going to cheat a bit, and look it up to verify. Ok, it is Pride and Prejudice.

Now name the poet and the poem from the following first lines of the poem, very famous poet of the Romantic period:

Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burden'd air:
Hungry clouds swag on the deep.
 
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William Blake...I think it was "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell."

From what short story are the following opening lines, and who wrote them?

"For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not --and very surely do I not dream."
 
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All right Browneyedangel, I believe we are officially stumped. Please do tell us who is the author and what is the title of the piece. Also, please ask a new question:

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Justme: 0
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I'm going to switch up a bit. If you stump us, you get a point. However, your questions have to be reasonable. Whoever has the most points is the literary master.
 
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justme27 wrote :
All right Browneyedangel, I believe we are officially stumped. Please do tell us who is the author and what is the title of the piece. Also, please ask a new question:

Browneyedangel: 1
Justme: 0
J8A: 0
Yoga_gal: 0

I'm going to switch up a bit. If you stump us, you get a point. However, your questions have to be reasonable. Whoever has the most points is the literary master.
That sounds good JustMe! I am stumped too! By the way, this is a great game! Good idea!
 
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brneyedangel wrote :
William Blake...I think it was "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell."

From what short story are the following opening lines, and who wrote them?

"For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not --and very surely do I not dream."
I'll guess Poe. It has his rhythm and the use of the word "mad" really tips me in his direction. But I don't know his work very well, and haven't read him in about thirty years, so I can't identify the story.

Nice game. (and I had the Austen and Blake, dang it, but was too late to the thread)
 
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"The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe

Okay, give me a few minutes to think of a new one.
 
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"In a village of La Mancha the name of which I have no desire to recall, there lived not so long ago one of those gentlemen who always have a lance in the rack, an ancient buckler, a skinny nag, and a greyhound for the chase."

Title of work and author, please.
 
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