/lit/ - Literature

Identify the characters from the first words they speak. (Always words spoken out loud, so written communications, internal musings etc don't count. Nor does first-person narration, thread picture notwithstanding.) Occasionally dialogue tags or other actions breaking up the speech are elided. Proper names left unredacted, so a few gimmes. Translated works are marked [*].

Hints on request.


The authors (none repeated):

Douglas Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen

J. M. Barrie, Samuel Beckett, Giovanni Boccaccio, Robert Bolt, Ray Bradbury, Patrick O'Brien, Mikhail Bulgakov, Anthony Burgess

Lewis Carroll, Raymond Carver, Miguel Cervantes, Raymond Chandler, Geoffrey Chaucer, Agatha Christie, Joseph Conrad, James Fenimore Cooper

Philip K. Dick, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas

David Eddings, Harlan Ellison, Euripides

William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ian Fleming, George MacDonald Fraser

Stella Gibbons, Gunter Grass

H. Rider Haggard, Thomas Harris, Ernest Hemingway, Russell Hoban, James Hogg, Robert E. Howard

Henrik Ibsen

Henry James, Samuel Johnson, James Joyce

Nikos Kazantzakis, Ken Kesey, Rudyard Kipling

C. S. Lewis

Thomas Mann, Christopher Marlowe, George du Maurier, Cormac McCarthy, Larry McMurtry, Herman Melville, John Milton, Margaret Mitchell, L. M. Montgomery, Moses

Vladimir Nabokov, Eugene O'Neill, Friedrich Nietzsche

George Orwell, John Osborne

Mervyn Peake, Harold Pinter, Edgar Allan Poe, Terry Pratchett, Thomas Pynchon

Francois Rabelais, Sax Rohmer

Raphael Sabatini, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Saki, J. D. Salinger, Peter Shaffer, William Shakespeare, G. B. Shaw, R. B. Sheridan, Sophocles, Laurence Sterne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Tom Stoppard

W. M. Thackeray, Dylan Thomas, Hunter S. Thompson, J. R. R. Tolkien, Leo Tolstoy, John Kennedy Toole, Mark Twain

John Updike

Voltaire

Evelyn Waugh, H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, E. B. White, T. H. White, Oscar Wilde, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Tennessee Williams, P. G. Wodehouse, Gene Wolfe

1)
Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!


2)
Heads.

Heads.

Heads.

Heads.

Heads.


3)
It is a seemly thing, dearest ladies, that whatsoever a man doth, he give it beginning from the holy and admirable name of Him who is the maker of all things. Wherefore, it behoving me, as the first, to give commencement to our story-telling, I purpose to begin with one of His marvels, to the end that, this being heard, our hope in Him, as in a thing immutable, may be confirmed and His name be ever praised of us . . .

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4)
Tinker Bell, Tink, where are you? Oh, do come out of that jug, and tell me, do you know where they put my shadow?


5)
Your hair wants cutting.


6)
They showered me this morning at the courthouse and last night at the jail. And I swear I believe they'd of washed my ears for me on the taxi ride over if they coulda found the vacilities. Hoo boy, seems like everytime they ship me someplace I gotta get scrubbed down before, after, and during the operation. I'm gettin' so the sound of water makes me start gathering up my belongings. And get back away from me with that thermometer, Sam, and give me a minute to look my new home over; I never been in a Institute of Psychology before.


7)
Gallstones!

Close your ranks and close your ranks and listen mosht attentivesome. Come closer then, my little sea of faces, come ever closer in, my little ones. Thatsh the way. Thatsh jusht the way. Now we’re quite a happly little family. Mosht shelect and advanced.


8)
Double your pleasure, Double your fun
With Doublemint, Doublemint Doublemint gum.


9)
Eeh! Fellow was spitting at my Shoes...? Another pushing folk one by one into the Gutters, some of *them* quite dangerous to look at’...? How can Yese dwell thah’ closely together, Day upon Day, without all growing Murderous?


10)
Well, thief! I smell you and I feel your air. I hear your breath. Come along! Help yourself again, there is plenty and to spare!

11)
Ladies and gentlemen I feel it my duty to inform you that the man holding this revival is an imposter. He holds no papers of divinity from any institution recognized or improvised. He is altogether devoid of the least qualification to the office he has usurped and has only committed to memory a few passages from the good book for the purpose of lending to his fraudulent sermons some faint flavor of the piety he despises. In truth, the gentleman standing here before you posing as a minister of the Lord is not only totally illiterate but is also wanted by the law in the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Arkansas.


12)
Oh, Bruno, would you buy me a ream of virgin paper?

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13)
But I don’t like German. It isn’t at all a becoming language. I know perfectly well that I look quite plain after my German lesson.


14)
Make me different from all other animals by five this afternoon.


15)
Ismene, mine own sister, dearest one —
Is there, of all the ills of Oedipus,
One left that Zeus will fail to bring on us,
While still we live? for nothing is there sad
Or full of woe, or base, or fraught with shame,
But I have seen it in thy woes and mine.

And now, what new decree is this they tell,
Our ruler has enjoined on all the state?
Know’st thou? hast heard? or is it hid from thee,
The doom of foes that comes upon thy friends?

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16)
Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack, and unbuttoning thee after supper, and sleeping upon benches in the afternoon, that thou hast forgotten to demand that truly, which thou wouldst truly know. What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day?


17)
Ponchour, mes enfants. Che vous amène mon ami Checko, qui choue du fiolon gomme un anche!


18)
This is what he is, but not who he is? This time-card I'm holding in my left hand has a name on it, but it is the name of what he is, not who he is. This cardioplate here in my right hand is also named, but not whom named, merely what named. Before I can exercise proper revocation I have to know who this what is.


19)
I’ve found it! I’ve found it! I have found a re-agent which is precipitated by haemoglobin, and by nothing else.


20)
Will any kind friend inform a poor blind man, who has lost the precious sight of his eyes in the gracious defence of his native country, England — and God bless King George! — where or in what part of this country he may now be?

21)
I was sent by the agency, sir. I was given to understand that you required a valet.


22)
Nothing to be done.


23)
You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.


24)
Hide the Christmas Tree carefully, Helen. Be sure the children do not see it until this evening, when it is dressed.

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25)
I have a report to make to members about The Big Affair, about Plan Omega. But before I proceed to that matter, for security’s sake I propose to touch upon another topic. The Executive will agree that the first three years of our experience have been successful. Thanks in part to our German section, the recovery of Himmler’s jewels from the Mondsee was successfully accomplished in total secrecy, and the stones disposed of by our Turkish section in Beirut. Income: £750,000. The disappearance of the safe with its contents intact from the M.V.D. headquarters in East Berlin has never been traced to our Russian section, and the subsequent sale to the American Central Intelligence Agency yielded $500,000. The interception of one thousand ounces of heroin in Naples, the property of the Pastori circuit, when sold to the Firpone interests in Los Angeles, brought in $800,000. The British Secret Service paid £100,000 for the Czech germ-warfare phials from the state chemical factory in Pilsen. The successful blackmail of former S.S. Gruppenführer Sonntag, living under the name of Santos in Havana, yielded a meager $100,000 — unfortunately all the man possessed — and the assassination of Peringue, the French heavy-water specialist who went over to the Communists through Berlin added, thanks to the importance of his knowledge and the fact that we got him before he had talked, one billion francs from the Deuxiéme Bureau . . .


26)
I thought Americans despised tea.


27)
Do you want a friend, Wilbur? I'll be a friend to you. I've watched you all day and I like you.


28)
Put them down.

Down.


29)
Why sure she won't pretend to remember what she's ordered not! — ay, this comes of her reading!


30)
So you're a private detective. I didn't know they really existed, except in books. Or else they were greasy little men snooping around hotels.

How did you like Dad?

31)
Hello, Gang! ‘It's always fair weather, when good fellows get together! . . . And another little drink won't do us any harm!’ Do your duty, Brother Rocky. Bring on the rat poison! How goes it, Governor?


32)
Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.


33)
I suppose you are Mr. Matthew Cuthbert of Green Gables? I’m very glad to see you. I was beginning to be afraid you weren’t coming for me and I was imagining all the things that might have happened to prevent you. I had made up my mind that if you didn’t come for me to-night I’d go down the track to that big wild cherry-tree at the bend, and climb up into it to stay all night. I wouldn’t be a bit afraid, and it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine, don’t you think? You could imagine you were dwelling in marble halls, couldn’t you? And I was quite sure you would come for me in the morning, if you didn’t to-night.


34)
Great star! What would your happiness be, if you had not those for whom you shine!

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35)
You pigs git. Head on down to the creek if you want to eat that snake.


36)
So that of thus much that return was made;
And of the third part of the Persian ships
There was the venture summ'd and satisfied.
As for those Samnites, and the men of Uz,
That bought my Spanish oils and wines of Greece,
Here have I purs'd their paltry silverlings.
Fie, what a trouble 'tis to count this trash!
Well fare the Arabians, who so richly pay
The things they traffic for with wedge of gold,
Whereof a man may easily in a day
Tell that which may maintain him all his life.


37)
He is a very little fellow, that’s true, and would do better for the Théâtre des Variétés.


38)
Tom!

TOM!

What’s gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!


39)
No — no —— Judge, you burnt your powder only to warm your nose this cold evening. Did ye think to stop a full-grown buck, with Hector and the slut open upon him within sound, with that pop-gun in your hand! There's plenty of pheasants among the swamps; and the snow-birds are flying round your own door, where you may feed them with crumbs, and shoot them at pleasure, any day; but if you're for a buck, or a little bear's meat, Judge, you'll have to take the long rifle, with a greased wadding, or you'll waste more powder than you'll fill stomachs, I'm thinking.


40)
Good G——! — Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?

41)
That’s the same atrocious aftershave you wore in court.


42)
No ceremony, Thomas! No ceremony! A passing fancy — I happened to be on the river. Look, mud.


43)
I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive.


44)
Of the beginnings and the Gods. A worthy subject, Faldor, but a dry and dusty one.


45)
See that smudge on the wall by the picture of Auntie Blossom? That's where you threw the sago.

You only missed me by a inch.


46)
I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.


47)
It feels like going down into one’s tomb, for an old captain like me to be descending this narrow scuttle, to go to my grave-dug berth.


48)
I’m p-paralysed with happiness.


49)
What makes the difference between man and all the rest of the animal creation? Every beast that strays beside me has the same corporal necessities with myself: he is hungry, and crops the grass; he is thirsty, and drinks the stream; his thirst and hunger are appeased; he is satisfied, and sleeps; he rises again, and is hungry; he is again fed, and is at rest. I am hungry and thirsty, like him, but when thirst and hunger cease, I am not at rest. I am, like him, pained with want, but am not, like him, satisfied with fulness. The intermediate hours are tedious and gloomy; I long again to be hungry that I may again quicken the attention. The birds peck the berries or the corn, and fly away to the groves, where they sit in seeming happiness on the branches, and waste their lives in tuning one unvaried series of sounds. I likewise can call the lutist and the singer; but the sounds that pleased me yesterday weary me to-day, and will grow yet more wearisome to-morrow. I can discover in me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man surely has some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification; or he has some desire distinct from sense, which must be satisfied before he can be happy.


50)
Hold your noise! Keep still, you little devil, or I’ll cut your throat!

51)
O, there you are.

Milk for the pussens.


52)
The navy, I think, who have done so much for us, have at least an equal claim with any other set of men, for all the comforts and all the privileges which any home can give. Sailors work hard enough for their comforts, we must all allow.


53)
Good evening. Hello. Yes. I think we're ready to order now.


54)
What the fuck are you doing there all day in the shower with the goddamn dog?


55)
Prospero, these matters of statecraft weary me as all the fighting I have done never did.


56)
Drat the whole thing! You would think that after all these years of study you could do better for yourself than a by-our-lady well with a by-our-lady bucket, whatever the by-our-lady cost.

By this and by that, why can't they get us the electric light and company's water?


57)
Mr. Smith and Dr. Petrie, your interference with my plans has gone too far. I have seriously turned my attention to you.


58)
. . . . Now, lordinges, trewely,
Ye been to me right welcome hertely:
For by my trouthe, if that I shal nat lye,
I ne saugh this yeer so mery a companye
At ones in this herberwe as is now.
Fayn wolde I doon yow mirthe, wiste I how.
And of a mirthe I am right now bithoght,
To doon yow ese, and it shal coste noght.


59)
The marvellous thing is that it’s painless. That's how you know when it starts.


60)
Gentlemen, may I say a word? Has any one of you gentlemen ever thought that there's not a cannon factory south of the Mason-Dixon Line? Or how few iron foundries there are in the South? Or woolen mills or cotton factories or tanneries? Have you thought that we would not have a single warship and that the Yankee fleet could bottle up our harbors in a week, so that we could not sell our cotton abroad? But — of course — you gentlemen have thought of these things.

61)
Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books — same reviews. Have you finished that one yet?


62)
Availing hisself of a government car!

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63)
You’re not wearing a mask. Yours is the first human face I’ve seen here.


64)
It is a problem at which I have worked for the last seventeen years, but only during the last eight or nine months have I been rewarded with glimmerings of success. Of course I have experimented with thousands of animals, but latterly only with cats, those wonderful creatures which have assimilated themselves so marvellously with our civilization while retaining all their highly developed feral instincts . . .


65)
If thou beest he:— But O how fallen!


66)
Oft have I seen, in other days than these,
How a dark temper maketh maladies
No friend can heal. 'Twas easy to have kept
Both land and home. It needed but to accept
Unstrivingly the pleasure of our lords.
But thou, for mere delight in stormy words,
Wilt lose all! . . . Now thy speech provokes not me.
Rail on.

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67)
In principle what one of us may or may not know as to any given fact can’t be a matter for inquiry to the others.


68)
I know just the sort of thing you mean, dear. For instance Mrs Carruthers had a very strange experience yesterday morning. She bought two gills of picked shrimps at Elliot’s. She called at two other shops and when she got home she found she had not got the shrimps with her. She went back to the two shops she had visited but these shrimps had completely disappeared. Now that seems to me very remarkable.


69)
Because the big cat wouldn't let it.


70)
I say, sir, you sir, who are hiding yourself behind that shutter — yes, you, sir, tell me what you are laughing at, and we will laugh together!

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71)
Charles, what in the world's happening at your college? Is there a circus? I've seen everything except elephants. I must say the whole of Oxford has become most peculiar suddenly. Last night it was pullulating with women. You're to come away at once, out of danger. I've got a motor-car and a basket of strawberries and a bottle of Château Peyraguey — which isn't a wine you've ever tasted, so don't pretend. It's heaven with strawberries.


72)
Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?

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73)
I beseech your worship, Sir Knight-errant, be sure you do not forget what you promised me about the island; for, I dare say, I shall make shift to govern it, let it be never so big.

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74)
Well, mother mine, here I am, you see. I said I would be in time for breakfast, and I have kept my word.


75)
It is demonstrable that things cannot be otherwise than as they are; for all being created for an end, all is necessarily for the best end. Observe, that the nose has been formed to bear spectacles — thus we have spectacles. Legs are visibly designed for stockings — and we have stockings. Stones were made to be hewn, and to construct castles — therefore my lord has a magnificent castle; for the greatest baron in the province ought to be the best lodged. Pigs were made to be eaten — therefore we eat pork all the year round. Consequently they who assert that all is well have said a foolish thing, they should have said all is for the best.


76)
Nah then, Freddy: look wh’ y’ gowin, deah.


77)
Where the devil did you get her?


78)
You think I am your brother, or that I am your second self. I am indeed your brother, not according to the flesh, but in my belief of the same truths, and my assurance in the same mode of redemption, than which I hold nothing so great or so glorious on earth.


79)
Some drink, some drink, some drink!

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80)
Stranger, stranger, wherefore art thou so much afraid? Why art thou so frightened, stranger? Is there that about me that should affright a man? Then surely are men changed from what they used to be!

71)
Charles, what in the world's happening at your college? Is there a circus? I've seen everything except elephants. I must say the whole of Oxford has become most peculiar suddenly. Last night it was pullulating with women. You're to come away at once, out of danger. I've got a motor-car and a basket of strawberries and a bottle of Château Peyraguey — which isn't a wine you've ever tasted, so don't pretend. It's heaven with strawberries.


72)
Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?

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73)
I beseech your worship, Sir Knight-errant, be sure you do not forget what you promised me about the island; for, I dare say, I shall make shift to govern it, let it be never so big.

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74)
Well, mother mine, here I am, you see. I said I would be in time for breakfast, and I have kept my word.


75)
It is demonstrable that things cannot be otherwise than as they are; for all being created for an end, all is necessarily for the best end. Observe, that the nose has been formed to bear spectacles — thus we have spectacles. Legs are visibly designed for stockings — and we have stockings. Stones were made to be hewn, and to construct castles — therefore my lord has a magnificent castle; for the greatest baron in the province ought to be the best lodged. Pigs were made to be eaten — therefore we eat pork all the year round. Consequently they who assert that all is well have said a foolish thing, they should have said all is for the best.

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76)
Nah then, Freddy: look wh’ y’ gowin, deah.


77)
Where the devil did you get her?


78)
You think I am your brother, or that I am your second self. I am indeed your brother, not according to the flesh, but in my belief of the same truths, and my assurance in the same mode of redemption, than which I hold nothing so great or so glorious on earth.


79)
Some drink, some drink, some drink!

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80)
Stranger, stranger, wherefore art thou so much afraid? Why art thou so frightened, stranger? Is there that about me that should affright a man? Then surely are men changed from what they used to be!

81)
Queuing all night, the rain, do you remember? my goodness, the Albert Hall, Covent Garden, what did we eat? to look back, half the night, to do things we loved, we were young then of course, but what stamina, and to work in the morning, and to a concert, or the opera, or the ballet, that night, you haven’t forgotten? and then riding on top of the bus down Kensington High Street, and the bus conductors, and then dashing for the matches for the gasfire and then I suppose scrambled eggs, or did we? who cooked? both giggling and chattering, both huddling to the heat, then bed and sleeping, and all the hustle and bustle in the morning, rushing for the bus again for work, lunchtimes in Green Park, exchanging all our news, with our very own sandwiches, innocent girls, innocent secretaries, and then the night to come, and goodness knows what excitement in store, I mean the sheer expectation of it all, the looking-forwardness of it all, and so poor, but to be poor and young, and a girl, in London then . . . and the cafés we found, almost private ones, weren’t they? where artists and writers and sometimes actors collected, and others with dancers, we sat hardly breathing with our coffee, heads bent, so as not to be seen, so as not to disturb, so as not to distract, and listened and listened to all those words, all those cafés and all those people, creative undoubtedly, and does it still exist I wonder? do you know? can you tell me?


82)
Your tern now my tern later.


83)
If you really must beat the measure, sir, let me entreat you to do so in time, and not half a beat ahead.


84)
What's it going to be then, eh?


85)
But, sir, it will break my mother’s heart!


86)
Whoa! Say, you mus belong to everthin. How come they draggin in somebody like you? Them po-lice mus be gettin desperate.


87)
RINCEWIND?


88)
So you're our local sculptress.


89)
Please draw me a sheep!

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90)
Owls ahoy! What is it? Is the King dead? Has an enemy landed in Narnia? Is it a flood? Or dragons?

91)
I suppose I must . . . Mademoiselle, je viens vous faire mes adieux.


92)
Comrades, you have heard already about the strange dream that I had last night. But I will come to the dream later. I have something else to say first. I do not think, comrades, that I shall be with you for many months longer, and before I die, I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom as I have acquired. I have had a long life, I have had much time for thought as I lay alone in my stall, and I think I may say that I understand the nature of life on this earth as well as any animal now living. It is about this that I wish to speak to you.


93)
Do you see?... My doll... Mimi... You see...

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94)
One of those no-neck monsters hit me with a hot buttered biscuit so I havet' change!


95)
We DID use to play together, didn't we? You were a horrid boy, and kissed me once behind a door; but it was your cousin Vandie Newland, who never looked at me, that I was in love with. Ah, how this brings it all back to me — I see everybody here in knickerbockers and pantalettes.


96)
Travelling? Where to? Trusting to providence?

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97)
Uncle Maury said to not let anybody see us, so we better stoop over. Stoop over, Benjy. Like this, see.


98)
‘Quo, quo, scelesti, ruitis?’


99)
Ladies and gentlemen. Very well. Very well indeed. Very. Settled. But will you keep in mind, and — not for one moment — not one moment — lose sight of the fact — but no more. On this point not another word. What is incumbent upon me to say is not so much — it is in the first place simply this: it is our duty — we lie under a solemn — an inviolable No! No, ladies and gentlemen! It was not thus — it was not thus that I — how mistaken to imagine that I — quite right, ladies and gentlemen! Set — tled. Let us drop the subject. I feel we understand each other, and now — to the point!

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100)
Is this your little dog, sir?

10) Gollum during the Riddles in the Dark?

13) I know I've read this before but I can't place it. Maybe I've read too many 19th-century British works with governesses.

23) Ignatius Reilly and his precious geometry.

38) Someone shouting for Tom Sawyer? It's been nearly 20 years since I read the book, so I can't say who was saying this.

47) Captain Ahab speaking to himself.

50) Is this Magwitch to Pip?

75) Pangloss? Sounds like someone from Candide, at very least.

^ Aunt Poley
>>22473129
73 Sancho Panza

Now that I have answered the only two books I have ever read. All taped out

>>22473201
Oh wait, 10 wouldn't make sense as Gollum's first words, but I'm sure it's the same book, so it must be Smaug.

19) Sherlock Holmes, I assume Study in Scarlet.
38) Aunt Polly? Forgot her name, but Tom Sawyer's aunt.
89) The Little Prince from The Little Prince
I thought the Numerology quiz would be the last we would hear from you, but I'm surprised at your creativity. Cheers!

>>22473201
Yep, almost all correct.


>10) Gollum during the Riddles in the Dark?
>Oh wait, 10 wouldn't make sense as Gollum's first words, but I'm sure it's the same book, so it must be Smaug.
Right, Smaug. Talking to Bilbo who is invisible, hence the "smell".


>13) I know I've read this before but I can't place it. Maybe I've read too many 19th-century British works with governesses.
True, every Victorian heroine was a governess, because that was all you could be. Hint: this work isn't a novel.


>23) Ignatius Reilly and his precious geometry.
Hmm, it does sound exactly like Ignatius now I look at it. Geometry and all. Not him, though, sorry. That's a red herring I didn't intend.


>38) Someone shouting for Tom Sawyer? It's been nearly 20 years since I read the book, so I can't say who was saying this.
Correct, Tom Sawyer. Someone will nail the character perhaps. As you might say.


>47) Captain Ahab speaking to himself.
Correct.


>50) Is this Magwitch to Pip?
It sure is.


>75) Pangloss? Sounds like someone from Candide, at very least.
Correct. "All's for the best in this best of all possible worlds."

>>22473222

> ^ Aunt Poley
Aunt Polly shouting at Tom Sawyer, correct.

>73 Sancho Panza
Also correct.

>Now that I have answered the only two books I have ever read. All taped out
If everyone on /lit/ gives two answers we'll be wrapped up by tea-time. Also, checked.

>>22473288

>19) Sherlock Holmes, I assume Study in Scarlet.
Correct.

>38) Aunt Polly? Forgot her name, but Tom Sawyer's aunt.
Correct, although others have had some luck with this one already.

>89) The Little Prince from The Little Prince
Right. Not too tricky if you've read it; impossible if you haven't.


>I thought the Numerology quiz would be the last we would hear from you, but I'm surprised at your creativity. Cheers!
I did one every week or so for about a year, but I took a break. Not sure how often I'll do new ones now; we'll see how it goes.

>>22473331
Thanks for the hint on 13. I don't recall the speaker's name, but her governess must be the amateur three-volume novelist from The Importance of Being Earnest.

11. The Judge Blood Meridian
51. Bloom to mrkgnao cat.
72. Moses
97. Caddy Compson

>>22473382

>Thanks for the hint on 13. I don't recall the speaker's name, but her governess must be the amateur three-volume novelist from The Importance of Being Earnest.
Correct. It's Cecily Cardew, talking to Miss Prism.

>>22473421

>11. The Judge Blood Meridian
Correct. IIRC, it turns out later that not everything he says here he is completely trustworthy.

>51. Bloom to mrkgnao cat.
Of course. Ulysses. Every time I feed a cat I say MILK FOR THE PUSSENS! It's an excellent thing to say.

>72. Moses
Correct. Trying to stop a fight and getting about as much thanks as you would expect. Exodus, Book 2.

>97. Caddy Compson
Correct, Benjy Compson's favourite sister. There are "people" on this board RIGHT NOW who don't realize she is the heroine of The Sound And The Fury and worth all the rest of Faulkner put together.

>>22473136
2 - Tom Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, but I can't remember whether it's Rosencrantz or Guildenstern who says this
4 - J. M. Barrie obviously but no idea of character
>>22473141
15 - Antigone in Antigone?
16 - Prince Hal in Henry IV Part 1?
>>22473142
21 - Jeeves in whichever P. G. Wodehouse novel he first appeared in?
22 - Beckett - Waiting for Godot: obviously either Vladimir or Estragon but I've forgotten which one
26 - Henry James - The Portrait of a Lady? Mr Touchett?
>>22473143
33 - Anne of Green Gables obviously, no idea of character
40 - Walter Shandy in Tristram Shandy!
>>22473151
58 - The Canterbury Tales - The Host?
>>22473154
65 - Milton?
>>22473163
71 - Lord Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited
>>22473165
84 - Burgess - A Clockwork Orange - Alex DeLarge
90 - Obviously C. S. Lewis, no idea of character
>>22473168
92 - Orwell - Animal Farm, don't know character

>>22473136
>9) Eeh! Fellow was spitting at my Shoes...? Another pushing folk one by one into the Gutters, some of *them* quite dangerous to look at’...? How can Yese dwell thah’ closely together, Day upon Day, without all growing Murderous?
D I X O N
I
X
O
N

(Or Mason, I can’t remember that generic a line of dialogue closely enough to use it to distinguish them). Only Pynchon would be writing in that 18th-century style with interjections like “Eeh” and ending statements with “…?” I think “thah” specifically was a Dixonism.

>>22473141
11) Judge Holden

16)
Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack,

I know it’s someone talking to Falstaff, can’t tell who. Prince Hal?

>>22473142
30)
So you're a private detective. I didn't know they really existed, except in books. Or else they were greasy little men snooping around hotels.

How did you like Dad?

I know it’s one of the sexy daughters from Raymond Chandler’s “The Big Sleep” speaking to Philip Marlowe after he’s shown around the estate of their father, but damned if I can remember the name. Vivian or Regan or something?

>>22473151
>O, there you are.

Milk for the pussens.

Good Old Poldy Bloom. (Fuck, I mostly only know /lit/ memes, this embarrasses me, I need to expand my taste more).

>>22473151
58)
. . . . Now, lordinges, trewely,
Ye been to me right welcome hertely:
For by my trouthe, if that I shal nat lye,

The innkeeper who helps start off Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales?

>>22473163
>73) I beseech your worship, Sir Knight-errant, be sure you do not forget what you promised me about the island; for, I dare say, I shall make shift to govern it, let it be never so big.
S A N C H O
A
N
C
H
O

>>22473163
>75)
It is demonstrable that things cannot be otherwise than as they are; for all being created for an end, all is necessarily for the best end. Observe, that the nose has been formed to bear spectacles

Voltaire’s Candide?

>>22473168
>97) Uncle Maury said to not let anybody see us, so we better stoop over. Stoop over, Benjy. Like this, see.

Caddy (she smells like trees).

>>22473168
95 - Wharton - The Age of Innocence? can't remember character

>>22473143
35 is Lonesome Dove ain't it? Forgot what character says this though. Is it Gus?

>>22473687

A goodly haul here, indeed.


>2 - Tom Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Correct.
>but I can't remember whether it's Rosencrantz or Guildenstern who says this
Well, they're sort of interchangeable, let's face it. It's Rosencrantz.

>4 - J. M. Barrie obviously but no idea of character
Once you've got JMB the rest isn't too hard. Only one character calls TinkerBell "Tink" and loses his shadow. It's Peter.

>15 - Antigone in Antigone?
Correct, Sophocles. Calling Ismene 'sister' is a pointer, haha.

>16 - Prince Hal in Henry IV Part 1?
Of course. Mocking Falstaff in a joking-but-not-joking way.

>21 - Jeeves in whichever P. G. Wodehouse novel he first appeared in?
Correct. It's a short story actually. Maybe someone can supply it.

>22 - Beckett - Waiting for Godot: obviously either Vladimir or Estragon but I've forgotten which one
Same problem as R&G, except even more so. It's Estragon as it happens.

>26 - Henry James - The Portrait of a Lady? Mr Touchett?
Interesting guess. HJ does talk about afternoon tea at the beginning of PoaL. But no, this ain't HJ.

>33 - Anne of Green Gables obviously, no idea of character
Yes, the Green Gables bit sort of helps. It's Anne herself.

>40 - Walter Shandy in Tristram Shandy!
Of course. Much more the main character than Tristram.

>58 - The Canterbury Tales - The Host?
Right. Back from before they invented spelling. Harry Bailley, his name is, as it happens.

>65 - Milton?
Might be.

>71 - Lord Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited
Right. One of those initial speeches that basically tells you exactly who the character is.

>84 - Burgess - A Clockwork Orange - Alex DeLarge
Correct. Usually ACO is hard to quote because the made-up language gives it away, but this bit is a bit harder. I guess it's quite well-known as an opening line.

>90 - Obviously C. S. Lewis, no idea of character
Right, Narnia & all. Maybe someone can identify the book.

>92 - Orwell - Animal Farm, don't know character
Correct. Combination of "comrades" plus "stall" is a giveaway. Someone should get the character, I think.

90) The Silver Chair. Maybe Puddleglum

>>22473718

Another large-scale assault here. At this rate I won't need more than about half-a-dozen cute anime girls.


>9)
>D I X O N
>(Or Mason, I can’t remember that generic a line of dialogue closely enough to use it to distinguish them). Only Pynchon would be writing in that 18th-century style with interjections like “Eeh” and ending statements with “…?” I think “thah” specifically was a Dixonism.
Correct, it's Dixon. He's the country bumpkin; Mason is the urbanite. So D is gonna be the one surprised at the crowded streets.

>11) Judge Holden
Correct, although others got there first.

>16)
>I know it’s someone talking to Falstaff, can’t tell who. Prince Hal?
Right, but as above, someone else beat you to the Valuable Prize I'm afraid.

>30)
>I know it’s one of the sexy daughters from Raymond Chandler’s “The Big Sleep” speaking to Philip Marlowe after he’s shown around the estate of their father, but damned if I can remember the name. Vivian or Regan or something?
It's Vivian. Regan is the Irish guy who disappeared & ends up being the key to it all. Carmen, the mad daughter, shot him.

>O, there you are.
>Milk for the pussens.
>Good Old Poldy Bloom.
Correct. How do you make a character likeable? Show him feeding a cat, obviously. Mrkgnao.

>58)
>The innkeeper who helps start off Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales?
Correct. Harry Bailley.

>73)
>S A N C H O
Of course. I hope he gets his island. Must read it all the way to the end and find out.

>75)
>Voltaire’s Candide?
Right. Pangloss (already ID'd).

>97)
>Caddy
Correct. The Sound And The Fury.
>(she smells like trees)
Yes she does. She's a 24-carat sweetheart and it's about time /lit/ started paying her a bit more respect.

>>22473730
>95 - Wharton - The Age of Innocence? can't remember character
Correct. It's the "other woman" (the Countess Olenska). Or, if you're thinking cinematically, Michele Pfeiffer.

>>22473840
>35 is Lonesome Dove ain't it? Forgot what character says this though. Is it Gus?
It sure is. Gus's pigs are the spiritual heart of the book as far as I'm concerned. I particularly liked the bit where the bull fights the bear and everyone is watching amazed and the pigs couldn't care less and just get on with eating stuff.

>>22473938
>90) The Silver Chair. Maybe Puddleglum
Correct. He always assumes the worst IIRC, hence the floods, dragons etc.

>>22473136
6. one flew over the cuckoos nest, murphy
19. frankenstien? frankenstien?
27. charlotte's web, charlotte
43. fear and loathing in las vegas, hunter s. thompson
50. great expectations, abel magwitch
87. the color of magic, the archchancellor
89. the little prince, the little prince

>>22473144
>46)
>I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

Marvin the paranoid android. Missed opportunity not making this one number 42.

>>22475245

>6. one flew over the cuckoos nest, murphy
Correct. Randle McMurphy, Esquire, not taking any crap from anyone from the word go.

>19. frankenstien? frankenstien?
Nope, this one has already been identified. It's Sherlock Holmes. (Couldn't be Frankenstein because no Mary Shelley in the authors list.)

>27. charlotte's web, charlotte
Correct, E. B. White. "Wilbur" might be a poke to the memory.

>43. fear and loathing in las vegas, hunter s. thompson
Correct. "Raoul Duke", i.e. HST's self-insert. We can't stop here. This is bat country.

>50. great expectations, abel magwitch
Correct.

>87. the color of magic, the archchancellor
It is The Colour Of Magic, but not the archchancellor. Only one character in Terry Pratchett TALKS LIKE THIS.

>89. the little prince, the little prince
Correct. Antoine Saint-Ex thingy.

>>22475294

>46)
>Marvin the paranoid android.
Correct. Douglas Adams, Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

>Missed opportunity not making this one number 42.
Yeah, that would have been cute. Dammit.

Bump.

Hints for those still unsolved.

Female speakers: 24, 26, 32, 45, 48, 52, 63, 68, 69, 76, 80, 81, 91, 93, 94, 100

Non-human: 1, 14, 28 [probably], 62, 65, 78, 79 [sort of], 80 [sort of], 87, 88, 92

52 might be spoken with Captain Wentworth in mind. Is this Anne?

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

>>22473165
86 is Jones from Confederacy of Dunces

>>22477878
>86 is Jones from Confederacy of Dunces
Correct. Someone thought #23 was Ignatius, because of the general tone (and the geometry comment), but this is the one.

Bump.

Addition to earlier hint: 5 is non-human.

Another hint: 14, 18, 21, 26, 37, 53, 55, 59, 64, 68 are short stories.

>>22473144
>41)
>That’s the same atrocious aftershave you wore in court.
Hannibal Lecture mocking the detective in Red Dragon

>>22479378
>41)
>Hannibal Lecture mocking the detective in Red Dragon
Correct, Thomas Harris. Great opening line from a character lying apparently asleep with his back to us. Shows us he's a force to be reckoned with.

In Mann's film they changed it to

That's the same atrocious aftershave you wore in court three years ago.

which completely ruins it. Lecter would never state the obvious in this clunky way. (He knows Graham remembers perfectly well how long ago the trial was.) Damn I hate incompetent Hollywood screenwriters.

Bump. A few random hints:

1 & 57 were played by the same actor in films
65 & 88 are (possibly) the same individual
59 & 85 have the same first name

>>22473165
>87)
>RINCEWIND?
Death, The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett 1983.

>>22473142
23
>You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

The inventor of the time machine in HG wells’ “the time machine” … don’t remember if he had a name or not

Sorry if these are already ID’d:

34. Zarathustra
46. Holden Caufield?
48. Daisy Fay (this one’s easy…her voice sounds like money)

>>22473136
>1)
> Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!
Is this Dracula?

>>22481009
>87)
>RINCEWIND?
>Death, The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett 1983.
Correct. He's actually not very likeable in this book. Took TP a little while to get his character right.

>>22481634
>23
>You must follow me carefully...
>The inventor of the time machine in HG wells’ “the time machine” … don’t remember if he had a name or not
Correct, and I don't think he does. He's just called "The Time Traveller".

>>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.

>>22481762

>34. Zarathustra
Correct. Slightly offbeat since it's not exactly a novel and not exactly a poem and not exactly non-fiction either.

>46. Holden Caufield?
Nope. Someone already got this. It's Marvin from Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

>48. Daisy Fay (this one’s easy…her voice sounds like money)
Correct, although it says Daisy Buchanan on the passport, I think. She then acts as though she's said something really witty. I always assumed she was on drugs at this point (although she's generally like this anyway.)

>>22473129
Can you post a list of unanswered so I don't have to jump between the whole thread to see what's left?

>>22482536

CURRENT SOLVED [62 & 95 partly solved]:


1) Dracula (Dracula, Bram Stoker)
2) Rosencrantz (Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard)
4) Peter Pan (Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie)
6) Randle McMurphy (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey)
9) Jeremiah Dixon (Mason And Dixon, Thomas Pynchon)
10) Smaug (The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien)

11) The Judge (Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy)
13) Cecily Cardew (The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde)
15) Antigone (Antigone, Sophocles)
16) Prince Hal (Henry IV Part 1, William Shakespeare)
19) Sherlock Holmes (A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle)

21) Reginald Jeeves ('Jeeves Takes Charge', P. G. Wodehouse)
22) Estragon (Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett)
23) The Time Traveller (The Time Machine, H. G. Wells)
27) Charlotte A. Cavatica (Charlotte's Web, E. B. White)
30) Vivian Sternwood (The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler)

33) Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery)
35) Augustus McRae (Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry)
38) Aunt Polly (Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain)
40) Walter Shandy (Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne)

41) Hannibal Lecter (Red Dragon, Thomas Harris)
43) Raoul Duke (Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson)
46) Marvin the Paranoid Android (Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams)
47) Captain Ahab (Moby Dick, Herman Melville)
48) Daisy Buchanan (The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald)
50) Abel Magwitch (Great Expectations, Charles Dickens)

51) Leopold Bloom (Ulysses, James Joyce)
52) Anne Elliot (Persuasion, Jane Austen)
58) Harry Bailly (The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer)

65) ? Unidentified character (? Unidentified work, John Milton)

71) Lord Sebastian Flyte (Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh)
72) Moses (Exodus Book 2, Moses)
73) Sancho Panza (Don Quixote, Miguel Cervantes)
75) Pangloss (Candide, Voltaire)

84) Alex (A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess)
86) Jones (A Confederacy Of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole)
87) Death (The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett)
89) The Little Prince (The Little Prince, A. St-E)
90) Puddleglum (The Silver Chair, C. S. Lewis)

92) ? Unidentified character (Animal Farm, George Orwell)
95) Ellen Olenska (The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton)
97) Caddy Compson (The Sound And The Fury, William Faulkner)

>>22482575
Sorry, it's 65 & 92 partly solved. I was dyslexic.


CURRENTLY UNSOLVED:

3, 5, 7, 8
12, 14, 17, 18, 20
24, 25, 26, 28, 29
31, 32, 34, 36, 37, 39
42, 44, 45, 49
53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60
61, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70
74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80
81, 82, 83, 85, 88
91, 93, 94, 96, 98, 99, 100

>>22482575
>65) ? Unidentified character (? Unidentified work, John Milton)
Well lets see. If it is Milton then it could be Paradise Lost or maybe Paradise Regained. The line Fallen makes me think the person is talking to Satan. And the surprise shows they likely didn't fall with him and are surprised at how he looks after falling. Adam and Eve of course can be eliminated not having known him before leaving it most likely an angel that didn't fall. I deduce that this is Satan being brought before the archangel Gabriel after being caught sneaking around paradise.

>>22482575
>92) ? Unidentified character (Animal Farm, George Orwell)
Old Major

>>22482754
Excellent logic, but sadly not the right answer, which just goes to show that logic's not all it's cracked up to be.

>>22482785
>92) ? Unidentified character (Animal Farm, George Orwell)
>Old Major
Correct.

Bump.

>>22482443
>He's actually not very likeable in this book. Took TP a little while to get his character right.
Everything before Mort is a bit rough around the edges, honestly.