Connor, is your sig a reference to The League of Gentlemen?
No, unless The League of Gentlemen is the poem that Jimmy Stewart (as played by Dana Carvey) read on the Sprockets skit on SNL. If so, then yes. Yes it is.
Connor: I read Pilgrim when it came out. And drop my penny in a needy cup.
OK, here’s my selection, with hints. Author is a post-war, southern American male, now deceased.
“Now in these dread latter days of the old violent beloved U.S.A. and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted death-dealing Western world I came to myself in a grove of young pines and the question came to me: has it happened at last?”
BTW, you folks read some interesting books.
Sounds like Faulkner. Absalom, Absalom?
Nope. That’s not it. Just looked it up. Never would have got it. Found it on a very interesting message board, though.
Connor, no it isn’t, it’s a British TV comedy series in which one of the characters is a German pederast who might be called Dieter and who says things like that.
I’ve no idea what the latest quote is from, by the way.
TomH - I love the league of gentlemen! Its very twisted but really funny. I doubt it would appeal to americans though.
Truman Capote, “Other Voices, Other Rooms.”
I’d say it seems as though Connor has got it. Yeah, I searched too, and he’s dead right about an “interesting” message board. Still, we await the decision of person whose name I might spell wrongly, jcgmoi?, I think.
Me, I am unworthy, and I ought to go back to reading Janet and John/Dick and Jane.
Neither Faulkner nor Capote, but Walker Percy. I quoted the opening lines of Love in the Ruins, which I recommend to each and everyone of you.
Connor/Celyn, how about posting a link to that “interesting” message board?
Well, I’m not good at links, but here is one, I think;
and I will try for another. No, in fact, that is not going to work. I found it before, but right now I cannot get it, and it is time for me to 'phone a friend of mine, because of cheaper telephone rates etc.. So, I’m sorry, no link, but try looking for something called the “American Partisan” BBS.
Anyway, yes, it does sound like something to read. This is such a good game, because of hearing about books that I have not read (i.e. most!).
I think this whole game is a plot to make me feel silly and illiterate; and it does!
Oh I know how you feel. But maybe it will introduce us to…um, new bounds of literature? Or okay, maybe it’ll just make us feel literature-ly deficient…
Celyn: Well, the Christianity Today site seems benign enough, but that American Partisan appears a little more right of center. Actually, farther right than far right, which is probably how they view themselves.
Anyway Percy would consider these guys (the partisans) great figures of fun; please don’t let them dissuade you from sampling Percy.
Love in the Ruins, sub-titled The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World, is a hilarious satire and a great comedy of love. It’s my favorite, but I also recommend The Moviegoer and The Last Gentleman.
So, since no one guessed that one, whose turn is it? Zoggie? Celyn? A new person?
Anyone?
Ooh, ooh, let me.
I think this one will probably be easy, but oh well…
“There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.
And while that is, as beginnings go, not entirely novel (for every tale about every young man there ever was or will be could start in a similar manner) there was much about this young man and what happened to him that was unusual, although even he never knew the whole of it.”
Have fun.
And how exactly were you planning to spell “fun”, old friend, old buddy? Is there a smiley for a woeful failure? Woe is me, and woe is I, for I have no idea, but it will be fun to fund out.
Wow, does that ever sound familiar! I hear Peter Falk saying those words, but it’s not Princess Bride.
Is it Neverending Story?
Sure, I’ll give smileys for a woeful failure.
(and abject failures, and probably a few other types of failure, too)
And, no, 'tisn’t the Neverending Story. Never actually read that. And I can hear Peter Falk reading it, too, even if he never did…
Gotta be “The Princess Bride,” even without Falk reading it!
…and that’ll teach ME to open a window and let it sit for hours before actually posting, won’t it?