/lit/ - Literature

>>21859014
Correct. "All life is startling moral. There is never a single instant's truce between vice and virtue." — (Thoreau, IIRC. Or Emerson maybe.)

>>21824158
Good point. This is the underlying logic which explains why the comment feels "off" when you read it.

>>21623613
>96. Black Dahlia - Ellroy
I assume you meant 97, in which case, correct. If you actually meant 96, you're wrong, but you got incredibly lucky.

>>21430931
>69 The Maltese Falcon, Hammett
Correct. "Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting 'V' under the more flexible 'V' of his mouth."

>>21430941
>31 is I Claudius
Correct. "I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) was was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as “Claudius the Idiot,” or “That Claudius,” or “Claudius the Stammerer,” or “Clau-Clau-Claudius” or at best as “Poor Uncle Claudius,” am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting with my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point of change where, some eight years ago, at the age of fifty-one, I suddenly found myself caught in what I may call the “golden predicament” from which I have never since become disentangled."

>>21430946
>54 is Rabbit Run
Correct. "Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it."

>>21430956
>60. 'Jaws': Peter Benchley
Correct. "The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail."

>>21430966
>24 is of course The Sound and the Fury
It is. "Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting."

>>21430978
>20 is at swim two birds
Correct. "Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes’ chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression." Another tough one I think since the book doesn't get talked about much.

>>21281641
>100 questions? I thought this was a quiz, not an exam
It is. Exams rarely have as many as 100 questions. Also exams aren't fun, the way this quiz is.

>>19866024
great taste anon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnzmioTGCcw&ab_channel=ScottWalker-Topic

>>19795117
1. — Nope. Roughly the right period, but not Poe. Someone already got this, somewhere.
6 — Yep.
15 — Yep.

100 is pretty hard I think. It's the very end of the book which maybe makes it memorable, but the book is not that well-known, so...