Botticelli - Sept. 2024

Thread Games
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Ooh, virgin territory.

  1. Are you Tom Hagen?
  2. Are you Tom Buchanan?
42

Thanks for the offer, but the last two DQ responses invalidated my guess. So I’m glad I didn’t waste your DQ.

43

No and no, respectively.

44

OK, I gave it a shot. I hope I’m not slapping my head over your name, like I did with da judge.

45

DQ: Written before 1945?

2 DQs reserved.

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DQ: From a book set during WW2?

One DQ reserved

47

DQ: Antagonist?

2 DQs reserved.

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DQs:

  1. From a movie?
  2. Set in the same time period it first appeared in?
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Remaining DQs:

  1. Author of book has won major awards?
  2. Set in the American West?
50

Sorry a tad late,
DQ:

  1. Was the derived movie/TV show made after 1980
51

T.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. first name starts with T
  4. originally from prose fiction
  5. American creator(s)
  6. created in the 20th century
  7. created after 1920
  8. did not appear in more than one book
  9. not main protagonist
  10. not from what I would consider a genre, but YMMV
  11. written before 1970
  12. character is an adult human
  13. probably still alive when last seen/heard from
  14. wouldn’t be alive today, if real
  15. book was filmed for movie or TV
  16. likely Caucasian
  17. not, as far as I can determine, an award-winning work
  18. not a sidekick
  19. written before 1945
  20. not from a book set during WW2
  21. not the, or an, antagonist
  22. not originally from a movie
  23. set roughly in the same time period it first appeared in
  24. author of book did not win any major awards that I could find
  25. not set in the American West
  26. derived movie/TV show first made before 1980

Tawk amongst yourselves, and then ask any earned “Are you Firstname Lastname?” questions by 9pm EST tomorrow.

52

No good ideas, but…

DQ: Are you Ted Babbitt, son of George Babbitt in Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt?

53

I am not.

54

Yeah, I got nothing.

55

No ideas here.

56

OK, then. I am

Dr. T.J. Eckleburg

The oculist (eye doctor) in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, whose eyes on the giant billboard overlooking the Valley of Ashes might symbolize several things: The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Symbol in The Great Gatsby | LitCharts

57

Love the book but don’t remember him at all. But it’s also been 30 years.

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IIRC, Eckleburg-the-oculist doesn’t really appear in the novel itself, but the billboard is mentioned several times.

We had a guess for Tom Buchanan, so that was really close. Good round, E_H! (And there I was cudgeling my brain for John Steinbeck characters…)

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I haven’t read Gatsy in over 40 years, but I do remember the billboards, if not the specific name. Take it again, EH! You stumped us.

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That was me, and I’d forgotten about him until after poking around the web. Good job again, E_H!