I'l not drag this out. First two lines of A Dream, by William Blake.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Now. It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld...
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I'l not drag this out. First two lines of A Dream, by William Blake.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Now. It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld...
Come now, come now. Dr. Frankenstein's words upon his completed experiment, from Mary Shelley's classic!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
As no one seems interested, I will not leave another line. Maybe someone was offended at me or something. If so, I apologize. I'm only human, subject to like feelings as anyone else, and as I said, I took the wrong approach. My bad. Don't let my mistakes ruin a perfectly good game for the rest of you.
Pendragon
Pen,Quote:
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This game has never been very popular so please do not think that the reason it does not get many replies is you. And I sincerely do hope that you will be taking part again in future.
The new question:
The Jarndyce and Jarndyce.
What is the name of the chancellory suit in Bleak House?
Stephen Blackpool
Ah, he wanted so to marry Rachel...but, Hard Times is hard times.
Sorry, Pendragon. I do love this game, but I haven't been around for a bit, what with school 'n all. But I'm back (sort of) so let's play.Quote:
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Then half Signior Benedick's toungue in Count John's mouth, and half Count John's melancholy in Signior Benedick's face--
Leonato puts together the perfect man for Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, I believe.
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I seem sixty and married, but these effects are due to my condition and sufferings, for I am a bachelor, and only forty-one...
hi pen...great short story
the invalid's story....mark twain
here's one of my all time favs....hopefully someone feels the same..
"I had the feeling that the world was left behind, that we had got over the edge of it, and were outside man's jurisdiction. I had never before looked up at the sky when there was not a familiar mountain ridge against it. But this was the complete dome of heaven, all there was of it."
Since there are no takers for littlewing's question, I will post another one:
42!
Yes, fine answer, but what is the ultimate question?
Littlewing's clue is from My Antonia by Willa Cather.
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Now the sneaking serpent walks
In mild humility,
And the just man rages in the wilds
Where lions roam.
Only William Blake would try a Marriage Between Heaven and Hell
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And the gunner we had was apparently mad,
for he sat on the after rail;
And he fired salutes with the Captain's boots,
in the teeth of the booming gale...
Oh, what a capital ship, the Walloping Window-blind.
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Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with...and then the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.
Schooling taught under the sea, the art master was an old conger eel, who taught drawling, and stretching, and fainting in coils...
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He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk descending from a bus:
He looked again and saw it was a hippopotamus.
“If this should stay for lunch,” said he, “There won’t be much for us!”
No takers?
Hallucinations ~ Lewis CarrollQuote:
He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk descending from a bus:
He looked again and saw it was a hippopotamus.
“If this should stay for lunch,” said he, “There won’t be much for us!”
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all.
THE GIFT OF THE MAGI - by O. Henry
For conceited men see all other men as admirers
The Little Prince by Antione de Saint-Exupery
"You bring Johnny home and pay me $250 in cash, and I agree to take him off your hands."