Time to guess that Lit. quote...with thanks to Lady Nightshade :)

[Djinn Raffo]

Originally posted by Fljotsdale: Halfway through our trek in life I found myself in this dark wood, miles away from the right road. It's no easy thing to talk about, this place, so dire and dismal I'm terrified just remembering it! (not the greatest translation..) or this: Marlow ceased, and sat apart, indistinct and silent, in the pose of a meditating Buddha. Nobody moved for a time. "We have lost the first of the ebb," said the Director, suddenly. I raised my head. The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky - seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

The top one is Dante's Inferno, am I right?
And the bottom one is from Joseph Conrad's Heart(s?) of Darkness.
Both so amazing! Don't know the other one though???????

Originally posted by Melusine: You cannot post a quote of your own until you guess another one first (j/k)

Sorry Mel, but you are too good and i couldn't guess so i cheated



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Holy Avenger of the OHF and part time Pinguindiebjäger

[Fljotsdale]

Originally posted by Djinn Raffo: Don't know the other one though???????

I'll wait for someone to guess!

Well done with the others!



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[RudeDawg]

Originally posted by Melusine: I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft windbreathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte




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[RudeDawg]

Originally posted by Melusine: Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'.

The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchet

DAMN!!! I have NO idea about your last one !!! or Fljotsdale's last one !!!


and I can't think of any to post.... I figure "if I know it, everyone must..."

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[Fljotsdale]

Originally posted by RudeDawg: The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchet DAMN!!! I have NO idea about your last one !!! or Fljotsdale's last one !!!

AAAAaaaaaarrrrggggghhhh! I KNEW I recognised that! Couldn't think where from! Haven't read it for years, I don't have a copy.

I'll give a clue about my unidentified quote: the young woman in the quote lived at the same time as Helen.



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[Djinn Raffo]

Originally posted by Melusine: You cannot post a quote of your own until you guess another one first (j/k)

Heh heh...(filled with pride)...will try to provide 2.

--------------------no.#1)
-We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.
-Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is
the fine point on which all the legal professions of history have based
their job security.
-Do not be quick to reveal judgment. Hidden judgment often is more potent.
It can guide reactions whose effects are felt only when too late to divert them.
--------------------no.#2)
-If you really want to hear about it, the first thing
you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and
what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents
were occupied and all before they had me, and all
that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel
like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
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The first one is from a series written between 1965 to 1985. Make it easy:
Just name the series for a correct answer.
The other was written in or around the 1950's.
Good Luck!




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[Fljotsdale]

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.
-Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is
the fine point on which all the legal professions of history have based
their job security.
-Do not be quick to reveal judgment. Hidden judgment often is more potent.
It can guide reactions whose effects are felt only when too late to divert them.

Um. Not sure of this, long time since I read it, but is it from DUNE? And wasn't the author quoting from something else? Can't remember the author..

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[Wulfere]

Originally posted by Fljotsdale: The Highwayman. Alfred Noyes

That one I would have guessed from Loreena McKennitts
albumn "Book of Secrets".
The song is beautiful and heart wrenching.
Many of these others I am familiar with but could not name more that the
authors. Such as Shakespeare.

Yikes! There is a scarey guy starin at me from below my name!
...oh um...lol...er...it's just the Magister. I thought I broke sumthin.

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[Fljotsdale]

Hehe! I can't wait to be Ra! Long way to go...

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