Re: The Peg-leg and the Parrot: ATU's literary game

Guest Mon Aug 01, 2011 9:59 pm

...okay, I'll have a wild guess...'Three California's Trilogy?

TinyMontgomery Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:00 pm

Nope!

Guest Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:06 pm

...A Garden of Earthly Delights, by Joyce Carol Oates?

TinyMontgomery Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:13 pm

Nope! It's much more straightforward, actually.

Guest Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:24 pm

...is it a novel by Michael Connelly about detective Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch? The Peg-leg and the Parrot: ATU's literary game - Page 9 3874208089

TinyMontgomery Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:35 pm

Welll......no!

TinyMontgomery Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:36 pm

I don't know the rules yet. When am I supposed to give the first clue? Tomorrow?

Guest Mon Aug 01, 2011 10:44 pm

...um...now would be good Embarassed

Guest Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:00 pm

...generally you state if it's a novel, poem etc....then usually you wait till someone asks for a clue...

...ahem...can we have a clue?

TinyMontgomery Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:02 pm

It's an American novel from the 1950s by an acclaimed writer/painter/thinker.

TinyMontgomery Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:01 pm

Ok, here's another clue:

First, a famous quote from the novel:
"One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things."

Second, a famous quote by the author:
"I am glad to be a maggot in the corpse which is the world."

Just add up the images and you'll find out the title.

Guest Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:15 pm

...ah I see it now...Henry Miller's 'Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch'. It seems so obvious now!

Guest Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:32 pm

...^...while I await the verdict I'll just post this:
...it's a play.

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TinyMontgomery Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:40 am

blue moon wrote:...ah I see it now...Henry Miller's 'Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch'. It seems so obvious now!

That is correct!

Guest Wed Aug 03, 2011 11:08 am

this is a play written in the 1950s.

eddie Wed Aug 03, 2011 7:05 pm

Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night?

Guest Wed Aug 03, 2011 7:20 pm

eddie Wed Aug 03, 2011 7:22 pm

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Another play.

Guest Thu Aug 04, 2011 2:11 pm

...a taste of honey?

eddie Thu Aug 04, 2011 4:44 pm

blue moon wrote:...a taste of honey?

Guest Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:44 pm

...a novel:

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eddie Fri Aug 05, 2011 5:08 pm

Clue?

Guest Fri Aug 05, 2011 7:54 pm

blue moon wrote:...a novel:
...it's a tricky one
...the first image represents 'a lack of sound'
...the second is 'a type of movie'...

Guest Fri Aug 05, 2011 10:25 pm

pinhedz wrote:All Quiet on the Western Frontal lobe?

(...your turn)

eddie Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:11 am

As the title of this thread suggests, it was originally conceived as a character-based (rather than title-based) literary quiz.

To ring the changes here a little, perhaps we ought to introduce character/incident-based clues into the mix?

Here's a character from a late 19th/early 20th c play:

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