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Conference rdvax::grateful

Title:	Take my advice, you'd be better off DEAD
Notice:	It's just a Box of Rain
Moderator:	RDVAX::LEVY::DEBESS

Created:	Wed Jan 02 1991
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	580
Total number of notes:	60238

565.0. "Name that Book!" by FOUNDR::OUIMETTE (Zat was Zen, Dis is Dao...) Mon Mar 24 1997 09:25

    	Hello all,
    
      In the spirit of "name that tune", I thought it might be of interest to
    create a "name that literary reference" note, separate from the "What
    are you reading" note. The fact is, I just felt like posting the quote 
    in the next reply, and thought that others might occasionally feel like
    posting quotes or references from some of their favourite books, as well.
    
      The only suggestion I can think of for "guidelines" would be that the
    quote or reference, while not necessarily guessable, would ideally give 
    a feeling for the flavor of the book, so that once the answer was
    posted, someone might make a guess as to whether or not they might
    want to read the book. Heavy demand, for just a quote, I know... Oh
    yeah, it might be a book of interest to the Greater Dead community, as
    well... Whatever the heck that means :^). 
    
    -Chuck

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
565.1		FOUNDR::OUIMETTE	Zat was Zen, Dis is Dao...	`Mon Mar 24 1997 09:27`	7
	(From memory, thus possibly slightly flawed... The beginning lines of one of my favourite books): "In watermelon sugar the deeds were done, and done again as my life is done, in watermelon sugar".
565.2		JARETH::LARU	au contraire...	`Mon Mar 24 1997 10:03`	4
	Gotta be Watermelon Sugar, by Richard Brautigan... or is that too obvious? /b
565.3	Name that Author!	FOUNDR::OUIMETTE	Zat was Zen, Dis is Dao...	`Mon Mar 24 1997 12:07`	19
	Obvious it is, but only if you've read the book :^). I wasn't sure who else out there might recognize Richard Brautigan's works, as you don't hear much about him at all these days :^(. I'll throw another one out, just because I'm in that kind of a mood, and need a break from writing this test plan, until some one else feels like jumping in... Name that author! Topics he's covered include: 1. Beet pollen. 2. Pan. 3. The hidden message in a pack of Camel Cigarettes. 4. Red Headed people. :^). -Chuck
565.4		EVMS::OCTOBR::DEBESS	seeking all thats stil unsung	`Mon Mar 24 1997 12:11`	3
	Tom Robbins
565.5	clue: It's not science fiction...	QUARRY::petert	rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty	`Mon Mar 24 1997 12:35`	14
	Tom Robbins would be my guess also... Okay, how about this one. One of my favorite quotes from literature, which I've been known to scribble on bathroom wall's, for some godforsaken obscure reason... "When would he be like the fellows in poetry and rhetoric? They had big voices and big boots and studied trigonometry." I think that's close to an exact quote. PeterT
565.6		FOUNDR::OUIMETTE	Zat was Zen, Dis is Dao...	`Mon Mar 24 1997 15:05`	7
	Re: .4 & .5, Debess & PeterT, Yup, Tom Robbins it was. Obviously I'll need to think up some harder clues... Like .5, for example, which I'm stumped on (unless it's from Catcher in the Rye, a WAG)... -Chuck
565.7		SMURF::PETERT	rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty	`Mon Mar 24 1997 18:15`	3
	Catcher in the Rye... nope. PeterT
565.8	did I mention I used to be an English major...	QUARRY::petert	rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty	`Tue May 20 1997 14:09`	9
	Boy, I really stopped this one cold with the quote I put in in .5. I just happened to use one of my favorite lines from the book, but it's buried on page 17 in my edition, and lord knows it might be a bit obscure. Just to try to revive this one once more, the book starts (and I can't say I have the quote exactly, so it starts something like...) "Once upon a time, and what a lovely time it was, there was a moo cow coming down the road..."
565.9		OUTPOS::EKLOF	Waltzing with Bears	`Wed May 21 1997 14:32`	11
	Re: .5, .8 "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce From a different source, with far less literary credability than yours :-) (from memory, so I won't swear it's exact): "Destiny's a funny thing. I once thought my destiny was to be emperor of Greenland, sole monarch to its 54,000 inhabitants. Then I thought I was destined to build a Polenesian long ship in my garage. I was wrong then. But I've got it now..."
565.10		ALFA2::DWEST	i believe in chemo girl!	`Wed May 21 1997 14:33`	4
	"Emperor of Greenland"... i like it... :^) has a certain ring to it... da ve
565.11	Ding ding ding!	SMURF::PETERT	rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty	`Wed May 21 1997 15:15`	7
	Portrait of an Artist is correct. Don't know your's but I can make a WAG of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"... by Robert Prisig (never read it, but what the hey...) PeterT
565.12		OUTPOS::EKLOF	Waltzing with Bears	`Wed May 21 1997 15:22`	12
	Re: .10 Actually, as part of Denmark, Greenland does have a queen, currently. But yeah, it is sort of a goofy image. Re: .11 > a WAG of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"... > > by Robert Prisig (never read it, but what the hey...) Nope, never read that one, either, nor owned or maintained a motorcycle.
565.13		ALFA2::DWEST	i believe in chemo girl!	`Wed May 21 1997 15:39`	6
	so if one were to become emperor, they could declare independence from teh queen, and corner the world market on ice cubes? sounds like a shrewd career move to me... :^) da ve
565.14		SMURF::MROGERS		`Wed May 21 1997 17:02`	3
	Close on the author's name for "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." It's Robert Pirsig;-). He wrote another one after that but I spaced on the name.
565.15	nobody will ever believe me though...	SMURF::PETERT	rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty	`Wed May 21 1997 17:35`	4
	Pirsig... isn't that what I wrote, ahh, no Prisig. Typo! PeterT
565.16	Zen took forever to read...	KAOFS::C_ROSS		`Wed May 21 1997 17:37`	1
	Re.14 ... me tinks his other book is Lila...
565.17	Hitchhikers?	APACHE::ROY	I don't drive fast, I fly low	`Thu May 22 1997 09:12`	13
	.9 That wouldn't be 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe', by mumble mumble, would it? Zen. What a great book. My brain contracts with philosophical input, so some of those parts were difficult for me. The hardest part was the epilogue (at the end), where he talks of the lose of his son. At that time, I was not allowed to see my son, and when I read it, I lost it, thinking that if anything happened to mine, I could never forgive..... I did find though that I have been trying to live my life based on a lot of what he talked about..... Glen(n)
565.18	the motorcycle you are working on is yourself	RICKS::CALCAGNI	ice cold water runnin through my veins	`Thu May 22 1997 10:48`	1

565.19	don't forget your towel	KAOFS::C_ROSS		`Thu May 22 1997 10:56`	2
	..Hitchiker's Guide was written by Douglas Adams...I think he is up to 4 or 5 his series.. Ross
565.20		EVMS::OCTOBR::DEBESS	black dirt live again!	`Thu May 22 1997 11:08`	8
	I had a real hard time reading _Zen and the Art of MM_ too... I had to put it down for a while and read a couple other books in between before I could finish it. The ending was not what I thought - I somehow thought that the son was him!
565.21		OUTPOS::EKLOF	Waltzing with Bears	`Thu May 22 1997 12:13`	4
	No, not Hitchhiker's Guide, or anything else by Douglas Adams. The author is from the New England area, and the work in question spawned a TV series that's seen at least in the US and Canada.