McTag wrote:Merry Andrew wrote:McT:
First one's Treasure Island; second one's a poor translation of Gaivs Ivlivs Caesar's Ballic Wars narrative.
Bonum guessum. I am not responsible for the translation, though (can you tell?) it just came up on the Web when I was looking for something else.
(Did he fight those after he had finished the Gallic Wars?) :wink:
Yes. he fought those after the Gallic wars. I didn't even see the typo until just now. Refuse to correct it at this late date. I was just so thrilled I recognized both quotes right off that I posted
post haste.
Gus, I think your opening lines are from
The Spy with the Red Fez which He Wore Backwards by Warren Pease.
gustavratzenhofer wrote:West Feliciana Parish is some twenty-five miles north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
That's the Travel and Tourist Guide to Louisiana.
Amigo wrote:Here's another one."A sharp clip-clop of iron-shod hoofs deadened and died away, and clouds of yellow dust drifted from under the cottonwoods out over the sage."
Zane Grey: "Riders of the Purple Sage"
Your good, I'm running out of books. how 'bout " Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water ???, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from puget sound to San diego." ****bonus question**** Where is Puget sound?
Puget Sound is up Vancouver way.
But maybe I can't answer the bonus question on its own. I don't know the book.
Jack London and "The call of the wild"
Puget Sound is in Washington State.
This is the ending of a famous book...
Quote:He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was
sitting by him watching him.
I'm raising the bar ('bar' is that right)."Gustave Aschenbach-or von Aschenbach, as he had been known officially since his fiftieth birthday-had set out alone from his house in Prince Regent Street, Munich, for an extended walk."
"Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann.
Yes indeed Merry Andrew, that's correct
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
Alright, That's it. Take this. "You won't be late?" There was anxiety in Marjorie Carling's voice, there was something like entreaty. " No, I won't be late," said walter, unhappily and guiltily certain that he would be.
"Point Counter Point" by Aldus Huxley.
West Feliciana Parish is some twenty-five miles north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
That is the opening line in "Who Speaks For The Negro?". by Robert Penn Warren.
It was the closest book to my computer.
I don't know
