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

...Hey Eddie, I've hi-jacked this for the poetry thread

blue moon wrote:
...Hey Eddie, I've hi-jacked this for the poetry thread

You're very welcome.

The second set of clues (above ^) refers to a short prose work, the style of which ought to indicate the author:

One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.

...Hey Eddie it is......A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas...?

..............poem...........

blue moon wrote:...Hey Eddie it is......A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas...?

Sit back and enjoy fellow Welshman John Cale's take on the story from his 'Paris 1919' album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9IKnVVRsmk
A Child's Christmas in Wales- John Cale.

blue moon wrote:


..............poem...........

Moony, all I'm getting here is two red squares inside two boxes, plus an unlikely amount of computerspeak when I click on "Quote".

...I think I've fixed it ^

Elizabeth Smart's "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept"...?

...oh dear Eddie...way off base.

....However, in my defence, I do have a friend visiting and my mindset has become somewhat more tawdry than usual.

Clue?

EDIT: Hang on, is this the "orgasm in the restaurant scene" from...can't remember the name of the movie...?

If so, I dunno...Euripides' "The Bacchae", perhaps?

eddie wrote:Clue?

EDIT: Hang on, is this the "orgasm in the restaurant scene" from...can't remember the name of the movie...?

If so, I dunno...Euripides' "The Bacchae", perhaps?

Is the movie When Harry met Sally? Not sure if that helps.

The movie is 'When Harry met Sally'

...er...I did say it was a poem...

it's LITERAL...

Since there are TWO pix of the event, I'll guess it's Yeats' "The Second Coming".

Easy one, this time:

eddie wrote:Since there are TWO pix of the event, I'll guess it's Yeats' "The Second Coming".

...one flew over the cuckoo's nest?

blue moon wrote:
...one flew over the cuckoo's nest?

...The Gravy Train by Whit Masterson ?

...Hey Eddie, I don't think my Gravy Train guess is correct but am posting this anyway

blue moon wrote:
...The Gravy Train by Whit Masterson ?

'Fraid not.

20th c English comic travelogue.

blue moon wrote:

Wiki:

What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a 1993 film directed by Lasse Hallström and starring Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio. Peter Hedges wrote the screenplay adapted from his 1991 novel of the same name

...Eddie

...good movie, great book

eddie wrote:

It's not TS Eliot's Journey of the Magi, if that helps.

^^

....OK, the answer is Jerome K Jerome's "Three Men in a (gravy) Boat".

Here's another clue, a Sherlock Holmes title this time: