best line of a book.........

[Monty Cantsin]

To start us off....

"if i'm out of my mind, i'ts all right with me, thought Moses Herzog".

it's the frist line so quickly run over to the local book store and fanatically scowler the place grabbing each book before casting it away in the never ending search for the sentence which might be next on the shelf.

[encephalon]

ummm.. what? What book? And "Moses Herzong" sounds suspiciously akin to "Mao Zedong." I really have no idea what book this is from :P Or is it Moses Herzog?

[Monty Cantsin]

my bad fixed it.

and i think you know where it's from...so next term someone spout out aline.

[encephalon]

Easy one.

"So it goes."

[Monty Cantsin]

Originally posted by [email protected] 3 2006, 05:56 AM
Easy one.

"So it goes."
Doesnt every book have that phase?

[encephalon]

heh.. well, one in particular has that phrase, at least once or twice every chapter. Plus, it's probably one of the few books that uses the phrase as a complete sentence and paragraph on its own.

[Donna]

Slaughterhouse-Five

[Lord Testicles]

Originally posted by [email protected] 3 2006, 12:27 PM
Slaughterhouse-Five
i just bought that book i havent got around to reading it yet though. :D

[Monty Cantsin]

ok, is that what you had in mind encephalon?

What about this one, its harder the last one because i doesnt reference it's title-


"One grows out of pity when it's useless. And in this feeling his heart had slowly closed in on itself, the doctor found a solace, his only solace for the almost unendurable burden of his day."

[BillHicks]

Writing is inhibiting. Sighing I sit scribbling in ink this pigdin script. I sing with nihilistic witticism, disciplining signs with trifling gimmicks--impish hijinks which highlight stick sigils. Isn't it glib? Isn't it chic? I find childish insights within rigid limits, writing schtick which might instill priggish misgivings in critics blind with hindsight. I dismiss nitpicking criticism which flirts with philistinism. I *****; I kibitz--griping whilst criticizing dimits, sniping whilst indicting nitwits, dismissing simplistic thinking, in which philippic wit is still illicit.
--Christian Bok, Eunoia (Chapter 'I')

[Monty Cantsin]

Not that i would have been able to pick it, because i've heard niether of the writer or book, but the idea is to guess the book the quote comes from.

[encephalon]

yeah, it was slaughterhouse five. No idea about your second one though.. but it sounds familiar..

[Monty Cantsin]

This is a quote from the next page of the SAME book, it's to help you get it - a clue....

"and on a different plane, the dreary struggle in progress between each man's happiness and the abstractions of the plague - which constituted the whole life of our town of over a long period of time."

[encephalon]

Camus' the plague?

[Monty Cantsin]

Originally posted by [email protected] 4 2006, 08:41 AM
Camus' the plague?
That's it, your turn...or someone else who wants to play.

[Monty Cantsin]

what about this....

"France - a country renowned for machismo, womanizing and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short - could not have chosen a more apt national emblem then a thousand-foot phallus."

everyone should be able to pick it.

[Niall]

Originally posted by Monty [email protected] 4 2006, 10:55 AM
what about this....

"France - a country renowned for machismo, womanizing and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short - could not have chosen a more apt national emblem then a thousand-foot phallus."

everyone should be able to pick it.
the davinci code. How about
"i dont want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his dick in his hands"

[Donna]

the god father
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[Monty Cantsin]

Originally posted by Niall+Mar 11 2006, 11:43 AM--> (Niall @ Mar 11 2006, 11:43 AM)
Monty [email protected] 4 2006, 10:55 AM
what about this....

"France - a country renowned for machismo, womanizing and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short - could not have chosen a more apt national emblem then a thousand-foot phallus."

everyone should be able to pick it.
the davinci code. [/b]
That's it....

what about...

"He felt benignantly impressive, and was a little afraid that he might faint. but a sort of dogged satisfaction, and the malice of a silly schoolboy took possession of his mind. It was not only to defy Ivich that he had stuck the knife into his hand, it was also a challenge to..." (continues on)

[Niall]

Originally posted by [email protected] 11 2006, 11:48 PM
the god father
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thats the one

[Hegemonicretribution]

I know that from somewhere MC....

How about, "Out in the street, because I was tired and also because we hadn't opened the shutters, the bright morning sun hit me like a slap in the face."

[Donna]

i mean if i ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to shut up.

[Monty Cantsin]

Originally posted by [email protected] 15 2006, 05:46 PM
"Out in the street, because I was tired and also because we hadn't opened the shutters, the bright morning sun hit me like a slap in the face."
This is a wild guess but is it from Hemingway’s “A farewell to Arms”?

[Hegemonicretribution]

Nope, it was another one of Camus' ;)...

[FatFreeMilk]

Call me Ishmael.



I don't really understand what's going on in this thread but w/e . This just reminds me that I need to get my read on.

[Janus]

"Out in the street, because I was tired and also because we hadn't opened the shutters, the bright morning sun hit me like a slap in the face."
Camus's L'etranger. You guys into Camus?

As for Monty's second one, I have no idea.

Okay, here's mine.


他付过地保二百文酒钱，愤愤的躺下了，后来想：“现在的世界太不成话，儿子打老子……”于
是忽而想到赵太爷的威风，而现在是他的儿子了，便自己也渐渐的得意起来，爬起身，唱着《小孤孀
上坟》③到酒店去。这时候，他又觉得赵太爷高人一等了。

Just kidding. Here's the English translation.

After paying the bailiff two hundred cash he lay down angrily. Later he said to himself, "What is the world coming to nowadays, with sons beating their parents. . . ." Then the thought of the prestige of Mr. Chao, who was now his son, gradually raised his spirits, and he got up and went to the wine shop singing The Young Widow at Her Husband's Grave. At that time he did feel that Mr. Chao was a cut above most people.
Here's a hint. The author of this novel is my avatar.

[Hegemonicretribution]

Originally posted by [email protected] 24 2006, 12:47 AM
Camus's L'etranger. You guys into Camus?

Thats the one (the outsider). Yer I guess I like Camus.

I can't see your avatar because I am in post mode :lol: ..without the clue I don't know. Might post after I see the avatar.

[Janus]

My avatar is a photo of 鲁迅. That's a major hint.

[Janus]

Call me Ishmael.
Moby Dick.


I don't really understand what's going on in this thread but w/e .
It seems that Monty wants this to be a guessing game with quotes as clues.

[More Fire for the People]

“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut

[Janus]

“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions.

[vox_populi]

Originally posted by [email protected] 24 2006, 12:47 AM

After paying the bailiff two hundred cash he lay down angrily. Later he said to himself, "What is the world coming to nowadays, with sons beating their parents. . . ." Then the thought of the prestige of Mr. Chao, who was now his son, gradually raised his spirits, and he got up and went to the wine shop singing The Young Widow at Her Husband's Grave. At that time he did feel that Mr. Chao was a cut above most people.

I might be wrong but isn't that Lu Xun's The true story of Ah Q?

[Janus]

I might be wrong but isn't that Lu Xun's The true story of Ah Q?
No, you're correct though I'm not surprised after all of the hints that I gave.

[Janus]

Have you read it or did you just do a search for it?

Anyways, here's another one.


It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

[vox_populi]

No, you're correct though I'm not surprised after all of the hints that I gave.

Hehe nope...you made it pretty easy :D But I think i would have guessed it without your hints :P


Have you read it or did you just do a search for it?
I am reading a course in literature in my school...and my teacher likes Lu Xun...so everyone read his selected stories.

[vox_populi]

Originally posted by [email protected] 24 2006, 09:41 PM
Anyways, here's another one.


It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
Haha I just read that...my sister wants to see the movie...so I wanted to read the book before :P...anyway that's from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

[vox_populi]

My turn!

This is easy!


“Whenever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Whenever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there . . . . I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’—I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry an’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build—why, I’ll be there.”

[Vladislav]

Is that from Harry Potter and the Philosephers stone, vox?

[Invader Zim]

Vox: - The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck.



"Im going to get that bloody bastard if I die in the attempt."

[Janus]

I'm going to get that bloody bastard if I die in the attempt.
King Rat


I am reading a course in literature in my school...and my teacher likes Lu Xun...so everyone read his selected stories.
So are you Chinese? 'Cause Lu Xun's works are best read in his native language.

[Janus]

All right then. Here's another one.


Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

[Janus]

I found another one.


You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

Monty, I still can't figure out the source of your second quote.

[Vladislav]

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

[Janus]

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
You nailed it. :D

[vox_populi]

Originally posted by [email protected] 25 2006, 10:17 PM

I am reading a course in literature in my school...and my teacher likes Lu Xun...so everyone read his selected stories.
So are you Chinese? 'Cause Lu Xun's works are best read in his native language.
Nope I'm Swedish...but my teacher is chinese...he was very clear to point out that the translation was kind of bad...

[Monty Cantsin]

Originally posted by [email protected] 26 2006, 06:19 AM
Monty, I still can't figure out the source of your second quote.
here's another quote from the same book...


Various well-bred moralities had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned Epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, common sense, stoicism - all the aids whereby a man many savour, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life. He took off his jacket, and began to undo his necktie. He yawned again as he repeated to himself: 'it's true, it's absolutely true: I have attained the age of reason.'

someone should get it , i've made it pretty easy now.

[timbaly]

The white whale died.

So it goes.