/lit/ - Literature

>>23471120
>89 is surely Infinite Jest
Correct. James O. Incandenza, AKA Himself. Not sure how painful it would be. The brain itself feels no pain, but it might interpret what's going on in any number of ghastly ways.

>>23451783

>6)
>The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Correct.

>50)
>The Shadow over Innsmouth
Correct, although you’re not the first. (Fish-men FTW!)

>>23361580

>34) refers to the Jabberwocky poem
Correct. Alice Through The Looking-Glass.

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.

>>23311403

>5)
>This is definitely a James Bond novel by Iam Flemming. Not sure which but he's ordering a drink so I will wager it's the first James Bond book establishing Bond's preferred beverage
Correct, it’s Casino Royale, but it’s not quite his ‘signature drink’. In the films that’s a vodka martini, ‘shaken but not stirred’, of course, but in the books he most often has whisky and soda. This drink is his own invention, a variant on a martini, which he names the ‘Vesper’ (after the girl in the book, Vesper Lynd). You never hear about it again. Probably he stops drinking it because of the tragic memories .
The expression means something like ‘But we won't bugger fleas’.

>61)
>This might be cheating since I don't recognize the quote and am going of your hints but Mandarin appears only once so it must be here. And Amy Tan is the author you listed who would be the Chinese rep. And Amy Tan only has written of note The Joy Luck Club.
>So through sheer power of deduction I have reached my answer
Correct. The whole theme of the Joy Luck Club is these half-caring half-tyrannical Chinese “tiger mothers”.

>>23067444

>61)
>One boy who was tall and had blonde hair called me a “loser”, right in front of his girlfriends. . .
>If this is Elliot Rodger I will have a sensible chuckle.
Checked, and chuckle away.

>>23005173

>6)
>is this the skinny dipper opening to Jaws?
It is. Peter Benchley.

>I'm going off a hunch just from the movie
We like hunches (as long as they're right, of course):

“for you do not desire to feel for a rope with cowardly hands; and where you can *guess* you hate to *calculate* — ”

[Thus Spake Zarathustra]

>>22737957

>15 - the fish mouthed Charlotte in Nabokov's kino - /lit/ really missed this one?
Of course, Lolita.

>98 - the drunken jackal in Dickens tale of 2 cities
Correct, Sydney Carton. Surely the most famous in the list.

>>22707234

>13)
>This is Christopher Marlowe Faust when he sees Helen of Troy.
Yes it is.

>>22524880
>36 is Jane Eyre.
Correct. Charlotte Bronte not being over-subtle about Jane's rival.

>>22482143
>1)
> Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!
>Is this Dracula?
Correct. He then steps back and lets Jonathan Harker step over the threshhold without any coercing, as per the vampire code of conduct.

>>22423559
8)
>Gullivers Travels
Correct. Jonathan Swift.

>>22373513

>23 - Psalm 121
Correct, of course.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

— Psalms 121:1

>>21685215
>I think 34 is Plath but I'm not sure.
It is. "Sheep in Fog". (And someone already found her other half.)

>>21613907
Correct. Or, you might say, executrix.

>>21528419
>34 Hunchback of notre-dame
Right. When you have volumes, books AND chapters you know it's a big fat novel.

>35 American Psycho
Right. Just a little section heading, not really a big chapter.

>>21425279
Correct (although someone posted it just ahead of you).

>>21278764
Correct. Yes it's good. The film would have been much better if they'd left Lecter's dialogue intact.

>>21231663
Correct. And 49 is an odd number and J.R. was written by —

>>20399307
Correct.

>>20125641

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