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Sat 6 Aug, 2005 03:08 pm
Then the big red bus knocked him down in Fitzjohn's Avenue, the first thing that floated inti Eric's mind was that it was a funny thing---you think you know a street well, walk down it every day, but it's not till your'e flat on your back in the middle of it that you realise how terribly broad it is, how very tall houses are.
No idea. Where did you first read this passage?
How about this one? "Whenever you feel like critisizing anyone," he told me,"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that youve had."
The Great Gatsby
Even if I hadn't read it (and taught it), it'd be easy to find out where that came from by doing a Google search. That's what baffles me about the beginning passage of this thread--the only sites that come up on a Google search containing substantial portions of that passage are other message boards with that exact same question posted on them. No answers. Very strange (unless this is a passage from a very new or unpublished manuscript).
Man, you got it.The other book line might just be to obscure.No?How about this one. "To the red country and part of the grey country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gentley, and did not cut the scarred earth." No cheating P.S. If you edit your last answer we can see who else gets it.
you got it. How about this."It was a bright cold day in April,and the clocks were stricking thirteen. Winston smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the doors of the vicktory mansion."
Those are easy ones, Amigo. Green Witch is just a bit faster on the draw than I am. How about this one:
Call me Jonah. My parents did, or almost did.
this shouldn't be too tough:
"Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner.
Just noticed Merry's entry - don't know it myself.
I don't know.
P.S. I we delete our answers we can see who else gets it.
I'll give you folks...oh, an hour or so. Hint: it's not Moby Dick.
Merry is correct on mine.
I think the Jonah is from a Kurt Vonnegut book, but for the life of me I can't think of the title.
Right again, Greenie. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Y'know...the more I look at andyw's opening post, the more familiar those lines seem. Could it be from The Hitchhiker's Guide...?
Hey! No fair I read that one.I was suppose to get it.(To much pot in high school).How 'bout "The best laid plans of...........
o mice and men gang oft aglee . . .
Not a book, that's a poem, and its not the opening line.
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