What seems to be an invisible and non-existant sentence for Dorian Gray?
"Like the drink, sir. Only not spelled the same."
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What seems to be an invisible and non-existant sentence for Dorian Gray?
"Like the drink, sir. Only not spelled the same."
What's that thing that Steven King's character John Coffey in The Green Mile says about his name? (I confess; I had to search for the answer.)
"Damn it all! all this our South stinks peace."
What is the opening line of Ezra Pound's 'Sestina: Alaforte'?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jean-Baptiste
Orhan Pamuk.
Who won the Nobel prize in literature n 2006?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
"Peace, peace!
Dost thou not see my baby at my breast,
That sucks the nurse asleep?"
What at the dying words of Cleopatra in Shakespeare's play?
Razors pain you
Rivers are damp
Acid stains you
Drugs cause cramp
Gas smells awful
Nooses give
Guns aren't lawful
You might as well live
What's the verse pertaining to DevianArt? (Did I get that correctly? I'm not so sure.)
Nazgul.
What are "Neither living, nor dead" former kings known as, in Lord of the Rings?
"Who is it? Who is it?"
"Its Jimmie Rogers. Jimmie Rogers."
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Actually, it's a famous poem by Hollywood critic and columist Dorothy Parker. :) She was well-known for a tart tongue! Heaven help the book, play, or movie person whom she criticized and didn't like! :lol: Check here http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dorothy_Parker and you'll see what I mean... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Laindessiel
Who is one of the soldiers shot in Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage? (Possibly one of the world's most boring books!)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jean-Baptiste
The toe of a Persian slipper
Since there are no takers for Pen's question, I will post another one:
Mrs Pearce.
'oo was 'enry 'iggins's 'ousekeepah?
Raymond and Marie
Remind me not to post on this thread any more, someone. http://smilies.vidahost.com/contrib/edoom/sad2.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Where does Sherlock Holmes keep his pipe tobbacco? That should have been a given. I'm shocked, Scherlock! http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/figuren/e010.gif And his cigars are in the coal scuttle! Sheesh! http://smilies.vidahost.com/contrib/edoom/sad2.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Who are Meursault's two companions refered to as "the prisoner's mistress" and the man "of more than dubious reputation," in Camus's The Stranger?Quote:
Originally Posted by RobinHood3000
"In the Johannesburg mines
There are 240,000 natives working."
I'll do no such thing! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Boy! Did I kill this game? I'm sorry. That's from a great non-poem by Langston Hughes entitled "Johannesburg Mines."
How about this one?
"beside the white
chickens."
Came from this poem, I think, no?
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
William Carlos Williams
he could balance an eel on the end of his nose!