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Post by laurelin on Jun 20, 2006 22:58:37 GMT -5
Yippee!! Your turn, Quintare!! ;D
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Post by Quintare on Jun 21, 2006 0:12:56 GMT -5
This was also a film, however it still counts:
'We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.'
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Post by Quintare on Jun 22, 2006 21:05:24 GMT -5
Aww... I loved this film, and the book too. I'll post another quote from a very different book that is also related to the last one. I suspect you'll get this:
"The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatcht, unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't, that th'opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice: Take each mans censure, but reserve thy judgement. Costly thy habit as they purse can buy, But not exprest in fancy; rich, not gaudy: For the apparel oft proclaims the man; And they in France of the best rank and station Are the most select and generous, chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft looses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, -to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."
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Post by Indagatrix on Jun 22, 2006 21:08:24 GMT -5
This was also a film, however it still counts: 'We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.' Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (yes?) sorry slow to respond thought someone else would get it
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Post by Quintare on Jun 22, 2006 21:24:11 GMT -5
Yes, that's it Inda... good job
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Post by Indagatrix on Jun 22, 2006 21:53:30 GMT -5
Oh and then your other one is Hamlet
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Post by Indagatrix on Jun 23, 2006 9:10:23 GMT -5
ok here's mine ...
Now [name removed] bode in the burg of the Scyldings, leader beloved, and long he ruled in fame with all folk, since his father had gone away from the world, till awoke an heir, haughty Healfdene, who held through life, sage and sturdy, the Scyldings glad. Then, one after one, there woke to him, to the chieftain of clansmen, children four: Heorogar, then Hrothgar, then Halga brave; and I heard that -- was -- 's queen, the Heathoscylfing's helpmate dear. To Hrothgar was given such glory of war, such honor of combat, that all his kin obeyed him gladly till great grew his band
of youthful comrades.
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Post by Aerynrox on Jun 23, 2006 10:12:52 GMT -5
That would be Beowulf by Anon, I believe. ;D
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Post by Indagatrix on Jun 23, 2006 10:26:46 GMT -5
Yep! -- you know that Anon person wrote an awful lot of good books. Your turn Roxy
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Post by Aerynrox on Jun 23, 2006 10:47:25 GMT -5
But suddenly, at the edge of her mind, Religion appeared, poor little talkative Christianity, and she knew that all its divine words from 'Let there be light' to 'It is finished' only amounted to 'boum.Edit: Apparently I have killed the thread. Hint: This novel was written in the 1920's, and it was made into a spectacular film in the early 1980's.
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Post by Eldarion on Jun 23, 2006 23:15:30 GMT -5
This is way wrong, I'm sure, but that sounds like it's from Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear.
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Post by Aerynrox on Jun 24, 2006 10:17:56 GMT -5
Sorry, Eld. That's not it, but I like Greg Bear!
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Post by Aerynrox on Jul 2, 2006 21:00:10 GMT -5
Bump!
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Post by Aerynrox on Jul 6, 2006 11:50:46 GMT -5
Sorry for the TRIPLE post, but I don't want to be a thread-killer. Hint number two: The film version of this novel starred Judy Davis and Sir Alec Guinness, among others.
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Post by Indagatrix on Jul 6, 2006 12:01:10 GMT -5
A passage to Inda...errr India By Edward Forster
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Post by Aerynrox on Jul 6, 2006 13:33:03 GMT -5
A passage to Inda...errr India By Edward Forster Correct, India....um Inda! Your turn.
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Post by Indagatrix on Jul 7, 2006 11:58:21 GMT -5
"The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought."
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Post by Fate on Jul 7, 2006 12:20:55 GMT -5
1984? (Just a wild guess)
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Post by Indagatrix on Jul 7, 2006 12:24:18 GMT -5
yep your turn Fate
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Post by Fate on Jul 7, 2006 13:04:23 GMT -5
Lucky guess.
How about this one:
"It is demonstrable," said he, "that things cannot be otherwise than as they are; for as all things have been created for some end, they must necessarily be created for the best end. Observe, for instance, the nose is formed for spectacles, therefore we wear spectacles. The legs are visibly designed for stockings, accordingly we wear stockings. Stones were made to be hewn and to construct castles, therefore My Lord has a magnificent castle; for the greatest baron in the province ought to be the best lodged. Swine were intended to be eaten, therefore we eat pork all the year round: and they, who assert that everything is right, do not express themselves correctly; they should say that everything is best."
*(to be honest its been a long time since I read this book so I did have to go look up the exact quote)*
Edit: I know Inda knows this one. Or they would kick her out of the Librarian Club.
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Post by TheUncleanOne on Jul 9, 2006 10:26:53 GMT -5
Candide - Voltaire - The family philosopher that runs off and gets syphilis later in the story...
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Post by Fate on Jul 9, 2006 13:13:01 GMT -5
you are correct sir. A vary good book for those who have nto read it. Your turn X.
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Post by TheUncleanOne on Jul 11, 2006 19:34:39 GMT -5
"For in nature it takes thirty years for two hundred eggs to reach maturity. But our business is to stabilize the population at this moment, here and now. Dribbling out twins over a quarter of a century - what would be the use of that?"
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Post by TheUncleanOne on Jul 15, 2006 8:58:58 GMT -5
Ok.... continuing the quote:
Obviously, no use at all. But Podsnap's Technique had immensely accelerated the process of ripening. They could make sure of at least a hundred and fifty mature eggs within two years.
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Post by TheUncleanOne on Jul 22, 2006 9:09:42 GMT -5
Continuing:
Fertilize and bokanovskify - in other words, multiply by seventy-two - and you get an average of nearly eleven thousand brothers and sisters in a hundred and fifty batches of identical twins, all within two years of the same age.
"And in exceptional cases we can make one ovary yield us over fifteen thousand adult individuals."
-- OK, if no one can get this now, I give up on ya'll.
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Post by bainsoulsmite on Jul 22, 2006 9:32:38 GMT -5
Sorry, X. I know the answer, but I had to look it up, so will let someone else have a shot at it.
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Post by TheUncleanOne on Aug 21, 2006 19:05:03 GMT -5
Bump... Soma.
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Post by TheUncleanOne on Aug 24, 2006 6:56:57 GMT -5
Bump... Common, only Delta's here? Who's Alpha enough to anwser this thread?
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Post by Asya on Aug 24, 2006 10:02:58 GMT -5
Well, duhhhh... Soma should have given it away. Brave New World.
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Post by Julie Sturbridge on Aug 24, 2006 22:51:53 GMT -5
I didn't know the Soma part, having never read the book, but the Alpha and Delta references made it easy for just having seen the movie!
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