/lit/ - Literature

>>23469221
Right. John the Savage speaking of course. One of those scenes where the villain lays out his whole philosophy. A bit like O’Brien in 1984.

>>23450236

>74)
>Andromeda Strain
Correct, although you're not the first.

>>23377943

>32
>Kingdom of God Francis Thompson.
Correct. Another of the lesser-known names out of the way:

The angels keep their ancient places;
Turn but a stone, and start a wing!
’Tis ye, ’tis your estrangèd faces,
That miss the many-splendored thing.


>I was thinking you told us them for a reason to get more info on the works.
Well the quiz isn't to identify them, so no harm done. It means if someone likes something it's easy to find the book.

It does mean you can eliminate poets who post-date the work in question, but that's not often a big help.

>>23315869

>86)
>Oh Watership Down
Correct. ‘Lapin’ is the language. “Eat shit you f***ing dictator” is more-or-less what he says.

>>23063886
Correct. A couple of years ago:

https://archived.moe/lit/thread/19950339

A great line which didn't get the recognition it deserved. Many such cases!

>>23002204
>Something Wicked This Way Comes
>The monster is Mr. Dark
Indeed. Another masterpiece from the J. R. R. Tolkien School Of Subtle Character Naming.

>>22736763

>90)
>Edgar Allan Poe. NOT Tell Tale Heart but Fall of the of of Usher. Can't fool me
Fall of the House of Usher, yes. Roderick Usher finding he buried his sister a bit too hastily.

>>22710013
>could 60 be The Man Who Was Thursday by Chesterton?
It certainly could be. The climax of the book really.

>>22640106
>28)
>As a well read and finely educated individual I recognize this passage from the great classic Winnie the Pooh.
Correct. "It rained and it rained and it rained."

>Who was the patrician individual that requested Pooh bear?
It was of course the patrician gentleman Oliver Reed. Well done Oliver.

>>22477677
>52 might be spoken with Captain Wentworth in mind. Is this Anne?
It sure is. Anne Elliot. Persuasion, Jane Austen.

>>22397578

>71 - "more sinned against than sinning" - King Lear
. . . . I am a man
More sinn'd against than sinning.

>72 - "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in [your philosophy]" - Hamlet in Hamlet
Of course.

>73 - "Stand not upon the order of your going" (?)
Correct. I think this play was second after Hamlet for number of quotations (but a very distant second).

>76 - "[countenance] more in [sorrow] than in [anger]" - Hamlet
Right. People often swap this for ironic / humorous effect, it seems.

— What, look'd he frowningly?
— A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

>77 - "sea change" - Ariel in The Tempest
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.

>79 - "primrose path" - Ophelia/Laertes(?) in Hamlet
Yeah, Ophelia to Laertes. He's been giving her some Good Advice and she's well aware he's likely to give good advice and not follow it himself.

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles like a puffed and reckless libertine
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.

>80 - "Frailty, thy name is [woman]" - Hamlet in Hamlet
Of course.

>81 - "cakes and ale" - Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night
Telling Malvolio to lighten up. "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?"

>82 - "count[ myself] king of infinite space" - Hamlet in Hamlet
O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

>85 - "lend me your ears" - Mark Antony in Julius Caesar
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!

>86 - "My kingdom for a [horse]" - Richard III in Richard III
Of course.

>88 - "loved not wisely, but too well" (?)
Correct. It's from the last speech of a tragic hero.

>90 - "The game is afoot" (?) - Macbeth (?)
Not Macbeth.

>91 - "[The readiness is] all" (?) - Hamlet in Hamlet
Hamlet's comment is the right sentiment, but someone else expresses it as well, and the passage is quoting him verbatim.

>95 - "What a piece of work is a man" - Hamlet in Hamlet
Correct.

>100 - "The rain it raineth every day" - The Fool in King Lear and Feste in Twelfth Night
Right, the only identical double-entry I think.

He that has and a little tiny wit-
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain-
Must make content with his fortunes fit,
For the rain it raineth every day.
[Lear]

When that I was and a little tiny boy,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
A foolish thing was but a toy,
For the rain it raineth every day.
[Twelfth Night]


Pretty impressive. Maybe someone else will plug a few gaps and we'll get the whole hundred wrapped up.

>>22368578
Yes, originally Isaiah:

The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
— Isaiah 40:3

But then it appears in all four Gospels as well (they're quoting the Old Testament) e.g.:

The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
— Mark 1:3

>>21741465
>4)
>American Psycho based on the book American Psycho
Correct. Author = Bret Easton Ellis, Director = Mary Harron.

>>21677519
>85 is Dido, from the opera "Dido and Aeneas".
Correct. A guy called Nahum Tate wrote the libretto, but I think it's fair just to count it as Virgil in the authors list.

>>21614517
>4 is Neuromamcer
>5 is Foundation by Asimov

Correct, although others got them already.

>>21524548
>22) Why I Write Such Excellent Books
>Nietzsche

Of course. Coming right after "Why I Am So Wise" and "Why I Am So Clever". The three best chapter titles in the history of autobiography.

>>21488506

>1 is Ozymandias
Correct.

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”


>25 is the Raven
Correct.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore —
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door —
Only this and nothing more.”

>>21488506
>1 is Ozymandias
>25 is the Raven

Correct.

>>21424175

>1 is Under Milk Wood
Correct.

To begin at the beginning:

It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.


>95 is Richard III
Correct.

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

>>21280441

>19 is Sylvia Plath, "Daddy."
Sure is. Every woman adores a fascist.

>32 I think is Shakespeare, Julius Caesar.
Yup. The guy at the beginning castigating the crowd.

>92 is the Dunciad?
No, but I agree it looks like that. Same snide tone, same heroic couplets. But this is the poem that Pope copied when he wrote the Dunciad.

>93 is Life of Johnson.
Of course.

>>20607771

>>20398877
All right, except (sort of) 98. That wasn't what I had in mind, but it does (sort of) fit. I thought some of them might have plausible alternative answers. That's why I put the list of authors. Thomas Malory isn't there so this can't be the intended answer.

>>20272014
It's Sherlock Holmes, yes (although not Sign of Four.)

>>20127494