# Literature Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 17, 2001, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976 "2001-10-17T13:51:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Humble\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/47e85d/32.png) [@Humble\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Humble_Servant)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976/41 "2001-10-21T02:06:24Z")
It was indeed Joyce. Hail, **jackalope**! > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Nacho4Sara \*\*\* > I was trying to say “I forgot what I was going to say” in Poe-speak, but I must have done an awful job since no one really guessed it._\* Please don’t think this. I read Poe’s stories as a kid for the horror factor, never had a class on him and have no recollection whatever of _Ligeia_. Your parody could be the greatest and I still wouldn’t know one way or another. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976/42 "2001-10-21T22:11:05Z")
:bump: It must be someone’s turn…I didn’t notice this thread until after all the guesses ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Yersinia\_Pestis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ccd318/32.png) [@Yersinia\_Pestis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yersinia_Pestis)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976/43 "2001-10-21T23:12:29Z")
Come on, y’all can identify Cicero but not who I am? > [@](#): > > Sing, Cecil, the poutyness of Yersinia, daughter of Robert, > and her complainings, which put 10[sup]3[/sup] irritations upon the Dopers… Hey, since when do I have to complete both subject and message fields in order to post? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976/44 "2001-10-21T23:16:11Z")
Homer. ---
**Author:** ![Yersinia\_Pestis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ccd318/32.png) [@Yersinia\_Pestis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yersinia_Pestis)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976/45 "2001-10-21T23:23:53Z")
Ding! ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976/46 "2001-10-21T23:29:07Z")
Woo-hoo! I’ve been waiting a long time to get my homer dinged! ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976/47 "2001-10-23T16:35:21Z")
In a post, in a thread lived a furryman. Not a nasty post, full of cussing and a troll, nor a dry sarcastic post with nothing interesting in it to read: it is a furryman post, and that means sillyness. ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976/48 "2001-10-23T18:15:26Z")
furryman, are you a Hobbit? (Tolkien) ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976/49 "2001-10-24T13:41:12Z")
Sound the **alarum** , you are correct. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976/50 "2001-10-24T23:09:33Z")
It should be **lurkernomore’s** turn, but it’s been almost nine hours now. This has been a fun thread. To keep it going (and apologies for “breaking into line”) : Take a trip to Prudhoe Bay where the whale fishes play and the sun sets red and angry into Russia 'cross the way ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976/51 "2001-10-25T11:58:37Z")
My bad. Didn’t get online last night. I’ll post something after I get home today. (You don’t want me to have tech manual style, do you?) :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976/52 "2001-10-25T17:05:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by John Carter of Mars \* > \*\*Take a trip to Prudhoe Bay > where the whale fishes play > and the sun sets red and angry > into Russia 'cross the way \*\* You, sir, are Kipling. I can hear your paddles chunkin’ from Rangoon to Mandalay. Hmmm. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single Doper in possession of a fast Internet connection must be in want of a life.” [sub](I know, feeble… it’s been a tough week…)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Sumac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Sumac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sumac)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976/53 "2001-10-25T21:34:23Z")
Diogenes: I’ve think we’ve traveled quite far enough today. Shall we rest? Dog: Yes, I could use a rest. Diogenes: I’ve been doing some serious thinking about colored Floyds. Dog: Any particular color? Diogenes: Any would do, I suppose, but I was thinking in particular of those of the pink variety. Dog: Pink Floyds?? What are those? Diogenes: Not what, but who. Dog: WHO is it then? Diogenes: Not who IS it but who ARE THEY. Dog: Well… Diogenes: A band. Or more to the point, a rock band which often used gospel singers for dynamic emotional resolution. Dog: Kind of like that movie “Sister Act”. That was about singers who were religious! Diogenes: I hadn’t thought of that. Whoopie Goldberg, the star of that masterpiece was clearly drawing on the emotional impact of Pink Floyd. I hear if you translate the lines of the script into 7/4 groupings it’s in perfect synch with the Darkside of the Moon. Gospel flourishes and all! Dog: Which reminds me about that whole Wizard of Oz synching. Diogenes: Yes! Remember the singing munchkins? And Lymon Baum’s father… Dog: Pleeease! He prefers “Frank” Diogenes: No, his father’s name was “Ben” and he owned several opera houses. Dog: I see where you’re going now! Diogenes: Like gospel, the operatic singing infused his writing with dynamic emotional resolution! See how it’s all braided together? Dog: Can we rest now? I’m tired of talking about Floyd, Whoopie & Baum. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976/54 "2001-10-25T21:52:48Z")
**Steve Wright** nailed the Kipling. WTG ---
**Author:** ![Humble\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/47e85d/32.png) [@Humble\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Humble_Servant)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976/55 "2001-10-26T15:15:09Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Steve Wright \* > “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single Doper in possession of a fast Internet connection must be in want of a life.”_\* You are apparently Jane Austen, and I must say that I am imagining you looking quite fetching today in a lovely muslin sprigged frock with an empire waist. Here’s another easy one: **e** liminate capitals! **e** nd all conventional rules. **i** have a special gimmick, **s** ee? i think that i amuse. **m** ade my teachers crazy **y** o! down with upper case, fools! **n** ame me now **a** famous poet **m** y name is here **e** xpect you know it. ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976/56 "2001-10-26T15:48:16Z")
ee cummings? ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976/57 "2001-10-26T18:31:04Z")
Sumac!, you’re Douglas R. Hofstadter. (or, if that’s not right, you could be Bill Griffith, if you worked a giant fiberglas duck into it) ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976/58 "2001-10-26T20:50:45Z")
Hmmm, I was going to guess that sumac! was Beckett. ---
**Author:** ![Sumac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Sumac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sumac)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976/59 "2001-10-26T23:45:02Z")
panamajack, bingo! Hofstadter it is. I had a hard time reading G.E.B., not because of the formal systems of cognitive logic, but because of the terribly overblown and obvious “creative” writing. Ugggh. Kyla, Beckett’s a good guess given the absurdidy of the scene, but Beckett would actually be clever! Here’s another REAL tough one: One…bombtwo…bombREDbomb…blue…BOMB! ---
**Author:** ![quarx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/50afbb/32.png) [@quarx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quarx)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literature-game/87976/60 "2001-10-27T20:30:05Z")
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