Books, Too

[drcpunk]

Here are a few quotes from various books.

1. It is difficult to write about a real person.

2. All the years in this ring to you, and all your own years, too. (mnemex)

3. Hic sunt leones.

4. You have solved the problem which philosophers have been debating since antiquity -- the mystery about which no two nations or tribes have ever agreed, and no two men or women have ever agreed, and no intelligent person has ever agreed totally with himself from one day to the next. You know the difference between right and wrong. I am overawed. I swoon. I figuratively kiss your feet. (supergee)

5. Why can I never set my mind on a possible thing? [Caveat: Can't find the source for this, so the wording might be off.]

6. Feathers or lead? (mnemex)

7. I am more your friend than you think--for after our very first encounter, I could by saying a word to the cardinal have had your throat cut! (mnemex)

8. I was worst to the one I loved the most.

9. Who are they, these people who raise us? We think we know them, but they're strangers. They give us so much, make us who we are, and we never find out why.

10. I shall need very good nursing. It will make no difference, for I shall not recover; but I wish everything to be done, to the smallest detail, as if I should. I hate an ill-conducted sickroom, and you will be so good as to nurse me, on the hypothesis that I shall get well.

11. I faint when I cut my finger! Crimson sunsets make me dive beneath my bed! Bloodhounds drive me into screaming fits! I once threw up all over a very distinguished nobleman who introduced me to his blood brother!

12. Until the body melts and the brain ceases to gel, a man who has come out whole after having been put through his paces by the Delian has a heart for living. (redaxe)

Comments

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Heh. There can be no doubt about it; I need a drink from the Hippocrene. Until then, be assured #12 is from the brilliant Silverlock, by John Myers Myers.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. I went on a Myers Myers kick after reading the NESFA Silverlock, and read The Moon's Fire-Eating Daughter and The Harp and the Blade. Wouldn't mind finding some more of his stuff.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

4. Robert Anton Wilson, Masks of the Illuminati

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I think it's my favorite of the works he wrote alone, and the full quote is one of my favorites.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Damn. I was betting on _The Once and Future King_.

I'm long overdue for rereading _Masks_--it did seem like the most focused RAWilson novel.

[mneme]

2. Damn, damn, damn. I know I've read this, but no idea where.
Oh, right. The Enchanted Chocolate Pot
Duh. No, this isn't cheating, since I remembered it because I'd read the book recently, not because you have.

6. Zelazny. This Immortal, I think.

7. The Three Musketeers, I think.

11. I've read. But not sure what. Anvil of the World, perhaps?

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll give you #2, although technically, you gave the subtitle.
#6 and #7 are correct.
#11 is not.

[simreeve.livejournal.com]

I've read whatever #11 was in, I know that I have...
Now, what was it?

(Goes away to think...)