Much like the last contest. For each quote below:
- Name the characters who said it, together with the author and title of its origin.
- All three are required, and no partial credit.
- Don’t use search engines.
- “I don’t. I don’t! I don’t hate it! I don’t hate it!”
- “All right, then, I’ll go to hell.”
- “Oh, dear, oh, dear, I wish I had never seen that filthy sword at all.”
- “Ah, but the strawberries! That’s where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist!”
- “I’m generalizing from one example here but everyone generalizes from one example. At least, I do.”
- “She is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.”
- “All dwarfs are bastards in their father’s eyes.”
- “Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
- “But that’s the price we have to pay for stability. You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We’ve sacrificed the high art.”
- “Let’s have a little more religious freedom between us. You don’t believe in the God you want to, and I won’t believe in the God I want to. Is that a deal?”
- “Oh, darling, I’ve been so miserable.”
- “Perhaps I have begun to trust my luck more than I used to in the old days, but anyway I think I will go and have a peep at once and get it over. Now who is coming with me?”
- “I’m going to send you over. The chances are you’ll get off with life. That means you’ll be out again in twenty years. You’re an angel. I’ll wait for you.”
- “When I return, I should like to find you by the cage, staring at the bird in a scientific manner. Tap your teeth from time to time with a pencil and try to smell of iodoform.”
- “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
- “He’s a man way out there in the blue riding on a smile and a shoeshine.”
- “I wish I may never hear of the United States again!”
- “Yes, for the love of God!”
- “I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights.”
- “The worse I am, the more I need God. I can’t shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him.”
2. Huck Finn, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
7. Tywyn Lannister, George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones.
15. Winston Smith, George Orwell, 1984Report
I think #7 is Tyrion.Report
I always mess up those two names (and the respective spellings)Report
20. Julia Flyte, Waugh, Brideshead Revisited.
(Speaking to a horrid member of the Italian Parliament).Report
17. President Obama, Memoirs, as he returns to his native Kenya.Report
Awesome.Report
#6 is Doctor Watson from Scandal in Bohemia describing Irene Adler, Sherlock Holmes’ great love from the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Report
18 is “The Casque of Amontillado” by Poe. The character is the narrator, Montresor.
19 sounds like Sam Spade, just like 13. Would you do that, Mike?Report
I would not.Report
OK. Let’s start with the ones I am pretty damn sure I have right…
1. Quentin, Faulkner, Absalom Absalom
2. Huck, Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
3. Arthur, White, Once & Future King
4, Queeg, Wouk, The Cain Munity
6.Watson, Doyle, Scandal in Bohemia
7. Tyrian, Martin, Game of Thrones
8. Gatsby, Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
11. Lady Ashley, Hemingway, Sun Also Rises
13. Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon, Hammett
15. Winston, Orwell, 1984?18. Montresor, Poe, Cask of Amontillado
19. Marlowe, Chandler, Big Sleep
Now the ones am pretty damn sure I have partially right…
9. Brave New World, Huxley (Can’t remember character name)
12. Tolkein, (Best guess: Frodo, Fellowship of the Ring?)
14. Woodhouse, Uncle Fred Flits By (Can’t remember character name)
No idea at all on 5, 10, 16, 17, 20. (Though I feel like I actually know 16; I just can’t quite reach it with my brain.)Report
Oops, forgot 18!
Montressor, Poe, Cask of AmontilladoReport
For extra credit, what do three of these have in common?Report
Three are detective stories?Report
Or maybe more specifically, private investigator stories?Report
Something more specific still, which I didn’t realize myself until Ken S’s comment.Report
Finally, an easy question! Phillip Marlowe, Sam Spade and Captain Queeg were all played by Humphrey Bogart.Report
Oh, well played Ken S!Report
Is Anslem a reference to Absalom,Absalom? I know the title is referencing /something/ but I’ll be blasted if I can figure out what it is…Report
The title references the rebellious son of King David, who is killed by David’s machinations (as Charles is killed by Sutpen’s in the book).
I confess I don’t know who (or what?) Anslem is.Report
Anslem is the title of the book Jake Sisko (from Deep Space 9) is writing…
I know they’re referencing something there, but I’m really not erudite enough to get the reference.Report
Try assuming that 14 is easy.Report
Jeeves?Report
Easier.Report
#10 Yossarian, Heller, Catch-22
#13 Sam Spade, Hammett, The Maltese FalconReport
Dang, I keep missing the Heller quotations and that’s too bad as I rather like Heller – though I might be a minority of one who prefers “Picture This” to “Catch-22”Report
I’ll check it out on your recommendation.
I like Heller better than I like Douglas Adams.
Though I have been meaning to play Bureaucracy…Report
Yeah, I’ll have to go back and read it again to see if it holds-up as well as I remember. But how could you go wrong with politico-economic ruminations of Heller contemplating Rembrandt contemplating Aristotle contemplating the bust of Homer?Report
“Picture This” is my second favorite Heller book. I didn’t care much for God Knows or Good as Gold and the less said about Closing Time the better.Report
“God Knows” is a book I like for it being Heller struggling with the ancient question of Theodicy…except that I found his struggle, alas, to be sophomoric and not as insightful as I might have hoped. I might even like it more than Catch-22, which in my darker moments I think might have been pinched from Waugh’s “Sword of Honour” series. I’m a sucker for religious re-imaginings, though…Report
I have tried God Knows a couple of times. Each time, I find myself loving it for about 50 pages or so, and then getting bored.Report
The funny part is that I found Catch-22 a frightful bore and didn’t even actually make it to that part. I just remember the quote from having heard it quoted somewhere else.Report
17 is, I believe, The Man Without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale. I don’t remember the character’s name.Report
It was Art, and some day he’ll hang.
Sorry, that was Edward Everett Horton.Report
Was that the other guy who spoke at Gettysburg?Report
No, it’s the guy who heard a Who.Report
Glyph,
beware the whoo-whoo fifen.Report
Recap so far:
1. Quentin Compson (the elder), Faulkner, Absalom Absalom (Tod)
2. Huck Finn, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Kolohe)
3. King Arthur (AKA The Wart), T. H. White, The Once & Future King
4. Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg, Wouk, The Caine Mutiny (Tod)
6. John H. Watson, Conan Doyle, Scandal in Bohemia (Zic)
7. Tyrion Lannister, George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (Marchmaine)
8. Jay Gatsby, Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (Tod)
10. Yossarian, Heller, Catch-22 (Jim H)
11. Lady Brett Ashley, Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Tod)
13. Sam Spade, Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (Tod)
15. Winston Smith, George Orwell, 1984 (Kolohe)
17. Philip Nolan, Edward Everett Hale, The Man Without a Country (Ken S)
18. Montresor, Poe, The Cask of Amontillado (Ken S)
19. Philip Marlowe, Chandler, The Big Sleep (Tod)
20. Julia Flyte, Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (her brother)
Partially solved: 9, 12, 14
Open: 5, 16Report
20. Julia Flyte, Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (her brother)
Acutally, Aloysius got that one… I thought it was Bridey; he’s always going on about things like that, and, for just a moment, I’d thought he’d come to his senses about Beryl.Report
Wow, no one will get #5. I read those books years ago and enjoyed them… but no way someone remembers the quote, book or the person saying it without google. J’accuse.Report
Then are those the Alvin books? The only Title of which I remember was “Superweasel”?
That sounds like something the professor in those books would have said.Report
HOLY CRAP THERE WAS AN ALVIN FERNALD BOOK THAT CAME OUT IN 2009!!!!Report
Also: the quote was not from an Alvin Fernald book.Report
Well, this series has also been revisited by the author after a long hiatus too.Report
I think it sounds exactly like the author and the character, because they’re both smartasses who like bent logic and wordplay. [1] But yes, asking for the exact one of what’s now 13 (soon to be 14) books that he said it in is a bit much.
1. My other favorite quote from this series, which unfortunately needs more context to set up, is said to this character. A sorceress who knocks him out encourages him to dream of bearded women.Report
Oh, my brain finally touched 16:
Charlie, Miller, Death of a SalesmanReport
And since I think I got the partials, I’ll try these two additional process-of-elimination guesses:
12. Bilbo, Tolkein, Hobbit
14. Wooster, Woodhouse, Uncle Fred Flits By
I swear to god, I can’t remember one single character name from BNW to save my life so I think I need to have someone else get 9.Report
And I remain quite clueless on 5.Report
Can anyone help Tod by guessing the name of a character that might appear in a story called “Uncle Fred Flits By”?Report
Psmith.
I can’t help… I looked.Report
oh crap. is it uncle fred?Report
Further progress:
12. Bilbo Baggins, Tolkien, The Hobbit (Tod)
14. Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, Earl of Ickenham Wodehouse, Uncle Fred Flits By (Tod)
16: Charley, Miller, Death of a Salesman (Tod)
9 is still only partially solved. Per Marchmaine’s suggestion, the judges will accept the series rather than the exact book for 5.Report
The comment on Obama is jejune.
All the others are fascinating. I think the Huck Finn quote is not only the literary but also the moral bedrock of all American literature.Report
The Obama comment was, I’m sure, tongue in cheek, and I thought it was hilarious.
I agree100% about Huck Finn. It’s a bit inconsistent with Huck’s description of his religious training in Chapter 1:
Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. She got mad then, but I didn’t mean no harm. All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change, I warn’t particular. She said it was wicked to say what I said; said she wouldn’t say it for the whole world; she was going to live so as to go to the good place. Well, I couldn’t see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn’t try for it. But I never said so, because it would only make trouble, and wouldn’t do no good.
Now she had got a start, and she went on and told me all about the good place. She said all a body would have to do there was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever. So I didn’t think much of it. But I never said so. I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there, and she said not by a considerable sight. I was glad about that, because I wanted him and me to be together.
But Twain was like very Whitman in that he contained multitudes.Report
Tuesday hints:
The character who says 9 in the Resident World Controller of Western Europe. (Emphasis present for a reason.) His name alliterates.
The character who says 5 is an Easterner.Report
9 is Mustapha Mond, from Brave New World.Report
9: Mustapha Mond, Huxley, Brave New World (Dan)
Only 5 remains unsolved. It turns out that the 14th book in that series came out a few months ago. I should have been watching for it like a Hawk.Report
To close this out:
5. Vlad Taltos, Steven Brust, IssolaReport