identify & pose another to be identified

[chasestalling]

A DISPLEASED ITALIAN: You can't do that signor

AN AMERICAN IN ITALY: I have done it.


hint: oak park illinois is a place with wide streets and narrow minds

[chasestalling]

this is going too slow.

so here's another to be identified:

"i should've been a pair ragged claws scuttling across the bottom of the seas"

the previous dialogue is from hemmingway's a farewell to arms.

[chasestalling]

r.i.p.

[crazefest456]

aww.. it didn't die.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T.S. Eliot

"In the deepest slumber--no! In delirium--no! In a swoon--no! In death--no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man."

Hint: Spanish Inquisition

[crazefest456]

fine, another hint: author writes about the macabre.
:D I guess this is a mildly difficult game...
c'mon you bookworms!

[chasestalling]

don quixote by miggy?

[chasestalling]

i give up crazefest456. tell us if u please.

[crazefest456]

It's from the Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe...
I guess it was too hard...

[aeroport]

Another?

[crazefest456]

This should be relatively easy:
" 'We are the priests of power,' he said. 'God is power. But at present power is only a word so far as you are concerned. It is time for you to gather some idea of what power means. The first thing you must realize is that power is collective. The individual only has power in so far he ceases to be an individual. You know the Party slogan 'Freedom is Slavery'. Has it ever occurred to you that this is reversible?' "

[chasestalling]

i'll take a stab at it though i haven't a clue.

from dr. zhivago by what's his name...

[crazefest456]

i'll take a stab at it though i haven't a clue.

from dr. zhivago by what's his name...

oh darn, no....

HINT: Proles :D uh...and "memory hole"

[barbara0207]

I'd say 1984 by George Orwell.

[crazefest456]

YAY!!!
Barbara did it!!

:thumbs_up :banana:

Who wants to do one next? I'm fresh out of it..

[barbara0207]

Then I'll do the next one.

"[He] cried lustily. If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of churchwardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder."

I won't give you the name of that [He]. Now that would be telling! :D

[chasestalling]

my guess is oliver twist

[barbara0207]

Yesss! :thumbs_up

Who's next?

[chasestalling]

a curveball.

reveal the man behind the name:

george eliot

[barbara0207]

It's a woman, Mary Ann Evans. She lived in the 19th century (1819 - 1880) and wrote novels like Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Mill on the Floss.

[chasestalling]

Brightly lit from above I am sitting
in my circular room, this is I
looking up at a sky made of stucco
at a sixty watt sun in that sky.


this is the start of a poem by which russian poet:

a) alexander pushkin
b) mihail lermentov
c) alexander blok
d) vladislav hodasevich

[NikolaiI]

Pushkin is the only one I know so I'll go with him!

[chasestalling]

no, sorry. the answer's d.

here's another:

Men say they know many things.
But lo, they have taken wings.
The arts and sciences
And a thousand appliances.
The wind that blows
Is all that anybody knows.

this is by:

a) henry david thoreau
b) henry wadsworth longfellow
c) ralph waldo emerson
d) george chapman
e) bob dylan

[chasestalling]

no, sorry. the answer's d.

here's another:

Men say they know many things.
But lo, they have taken wings.
The arts and sciences
And a thousand appliances.
The wind that blows
Is all that anybody knows.

this is by:

a) henry david thoreau
b) henry wadsworth longfellow
c) ralph waldo emerson
d) george chapman
e) bob dylan