/lit/ - Literature

Identify the characters by their last words spoken. (Not just their last words spoken in the work; their last words, ever. This obviously means that many comments are followed by something exciting and terminal.) We're only considering dialogue spoken out loud, so no first-person narration, etc. (Some curveballs, including a few instances of contemplation which may or may not be audible, and one of a man writing because he cannot speak.) Dialogue split into paragraphs marks the elision of words and/or action from other characters.

Translations marked [*]. Hints on request.


The authors:

Unknown Author x 2

Douglas Adams, Richard Adams, Poul Anderson

Clive Barker, J. M. Barrie, Frank L. Baum, R. D. Blackmore, Giovanni Boccaccio, Robert Bolt, Flann O’Brien, Emily Bronte, Ray Bradbury, Pearl S. Buck

Truman Capote, Miguel Cervantes, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Flannery O'Connor, Joseph Conrad, James Fenimore Cooper

Philip K. Dick, Charles Dickens, James Dickey, Isak Dinesen, Alexandre Dumas

Umberto Eco, Bret Easton Ellis

William Faulkner, Gustav Flaubert, Ian Fleming, John Ford, Friedrich de la Motte Fouque

John Gardener, William Gibson, J. W. von Goethe, William Golding, Graham Greene

H. Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Harris, Robert A. Heinlein, Joseph Heller, Ernest Hemingway, Frank Herbert, George V. Higgins, James Hilton, Homer, Victor Hugo, Zora Neale Hurston, Aldous Huxley

Shirley Jackson

Franz Kafka, Ken Kesey, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Kyd

R. A. Lafferty, D. H. Lawrence, Jack London, Malcolm Lowry

Saint Luke

Norman Mailer, Thomas Mann, Hilary Mantel, Christopher Marlowe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Daphne du Maurier, Cormac McCarthy, Larry McMurtry, Herman Melville, Arthur Miller, Walter Miller, Margaret Mitchell

Vladimir Nabokov, Eugene O'Neill

Michael Ondaatje

Mervyn Peake, Donn Pearce, Plato, Edgar Allan Poe, Terry Pratchett, Howard Pyle

Damon Runyon

J. D. Salinger, Robert Service, William Shakespeare, Sophocles, John Steinbeck, Robert Louis Stevenson, August Strindberg

Alfred Lord Tennyson, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ivan Turgenev, Mark Twain

Virgil, Kurt Vonnegut

John Webster, Oscar Wilde, Gene Wolfe

1)
Will you bring me the knife?

It looks sharp.


2)
O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.

Let me die with the Philistines.

[*]


3)
Aw right, Boss! Don’t shoot! You got us! We give up!


4)
Many years ago, a certain man promised to have me killed. He is an old man now, living not far from here. He has read all the publicity associated with my appearance in your fair city. He is insane. Tonight he will keep his promise.

If you protest, if you think that death is a terrible thing, then you have not understood a word I’ve said.

Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.


5)
O land of Thebè, city of my sires,
Ye too, ancestral Gods! I go — I go!
Even now they lead me to mine end. Behold!
Founders of Thebes, the only scion left
Of Cadmus’ issue, how unworthily,
By what mean instruments I am oppressed,
For reverencing the dues of piety.

[*]


6)
I have two normal feet and I can’t see the slightest God-damned reason why anybody should stare at them. Five, please.


7)
Oh, all right. Let us see some crack Canadian tree-felling.


8)
Well, in a few minutes I shall be all melted, and you will have the castle to yourself. I have been wicked in my day, but I never thought a little girl like you would ever be able to melt me and end my wicked deeds. Look out — here I go!


9)
Jim, I reckon we’re fouled, you and me, and we’ll have to sign articles. I’d have had you but for that there lurch, but I don’t have no luck, not I; and I reckon I’ll have to strike, which comes hard, you see, for a master mariner to a ship’s younker like you, Jim.


10)
All my curses! All woe do I wish on Alfheim! And tell Imric that Valgard the changeling lives and knows —

11)
There's a red car coming up fast behind. Do you want me to lose him?


12)
Little John, Little John, mine own dear friend, and him I love better than all others in the world, mark, I prythee, where this arrow lodges, and there let my grave be digged. Lay me with my face toward the East, Little John, and see that my resting place be kept green, and that my weary bones be not disturbed.


13)
I made you, don’t you understand? I’m human, I made you.

I made you.


14)
Friend, be not afraid of your office. You send me to God.

He will not refuse one who is so blithe to go to him.


15)
I am leaving tonight. This is all yours. Only you'll never, never see that miserable brat again. Get out of this room.


16)
How come you ruther sleep on uh pallet than tuh sleep in de bed wid me? Answer me when Ah speak.

Janie, Ah done went through everything tuh be good tuh you and it hurt me tuh mah heart tuh be ill treated lak Ah is.


17)
My God, my god, look not so fierce on me!
Adders and serpents, let me breathe a while!
Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer!
I'll burn my books! — Ah, Mephistophilis!


18)
Anyway, I used to hate Iggy Pop but now that he's so commercial I like him a lot better than —


19)
Why, you're my babies. You're my own children!


20)
Don't think, don't think. You're taking my strength away too and making me a coward. What's that? I thought I saw the bell move . . . To be so frightened of a bell! Yes, but it's not just a bell. There's somebody behind it — a hand moving it — and something else moving the hand — and if you stop your ears — if you stop your ears — yes, then it rings louder than ever. Rings and rings until you answer — and then it's too late. Then the police come and . . . and . . .

It's horrible. But there's no other way to end it. Go!

[*]

21)
Listen. You’re very good. You cut my aorta. Artery in my neck.

If I let go, I’ll bleed out in two minutes. You know that. So get me some kind of help, get a doctor or an ambulance. You understand me? Did you mean to? Evidently. Okay — you'll call or go get someone?

Well, anyhow, get them for me. For my sake.

I don’t have it completely closed. I don’t dare move. I have to stay here.

Yes.


22)
*Thus*, I give up the spear!


23)
You always do what Sharkey says, don’t you Worm. Well now he says, follow!


24)
I think it’s a helluva thing to take a life in this manner. I don’t believe in capital punishment, morally or legally. Maybe I had something to contribute, something . . . It would be meaningless to apologize for what I did. Even inappropriate. But I do. I apologize.


25)
The blind man!

[*]


26)
I would not harm you, lad, I have punished you enough, for most of your impertinence. For the rest I forgive you; because you have been good and gracious to my little son. Go, and be contented.


27)
But I want to state, and my words are straight, and I'll bet my poke they're true,
That one of you is a hound of hell . . . and that one is Dan McGrew.


28)
I can fly. An old woman taught me. And if you care to wait, you’ll see me.


29)
Ah! I have kissed thy mouth, Jokanaan, I have kissed thy mouth. There was a bitter taste on thy lips. Was it the taste of blood? . . . But perchance it is the taste of love . . . They say that love hath a bitter taste . . . But what of that? what of that? I have kissed thy mouth, Jokanaan.

[*]


30)
Mother, watch me take this one!

Böömi

31)
You have done the deed of a disloyal and base knight, as you are; for, if I, unenforced of him, made him lord of my love and therein offended against you, not he, but I should have borne the penalty thereof. But God forfend that ever other victual should follow upon such noble meat the heart of so valiant and so courteous a gentleman as was Sir Guillaume de Guardestaing!

[*]


32)
Remember the training, Case. That's all we can do.


33)
I never thought. It just came to me out of the blue. You turned me into the cops. You. Little Velma.


34)
Hack away you mean red nigger.


35)
But listen to this and ponder it well. You too, I swear it, have not long to live. Already sovran Destiny and Death are very close to you, death at the hands of Achilles the peerless son of Peleus.

[*]


36)
Cut, you beggars.


37)
They are loaded — the clock strikes twelve. I say amen. Charlotte, Charlotte! farewell, farewell!

[*]


38)
Ain't no hair in his mouth.


39)
Fry, lechery, fry!

Oh, the flesh! Kill it, Kill it!

Kill it, kill it, kill it . . .

. . .

Oh my God, my God!


40)
Well, that's one way to get an audience. Hold a gun on a man and force him to listen to your speech. Speech away. What'll it be this time? Why don't you belch Shakespeare at me, you fumbling snob? There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, for I am arm'd so strong in honesty that they pass by me as an idle wind, which I respect not! How's that? Go ahead now, you second-hand literateur, pull the trigger.

Hand it over, Guy.

41)
Let me alone. Let me alone. If I’ve done wrong, I’m dying for it. It is enough! You left me too: but I won’t upbraid you! I forgive you. Forgive me!


42)
It isn't fair.


43)
Which is better ― to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?


44)
I thought I heard you — one of you — saying it was a pity — umph — a pity I never had — any children... eh?... But I have, you know... I have...

Yes — umph — I have. Thousands of 'em... thousands of 'em... and all boys.


45)
You fired in the air.

You will fire again!

Coward!

[*]


46)
I'll be the perfect mother, Max, like I've been the perfect wife. And none of them will ever guess, none of them will ever know.


47)
Like a dog!

[*]


48)
. . . Fate swept us away;
Sent my whole brave high-born clan
To their final doom. Now I must follow them.

[*]


49)
I know all that they know in the Pit, and I know a secret that they do not know. I have not lost the race — I have won it. I can defeat them at the point where they believe themselves invulnerable. If controlled hereafter, we need at least not be controlled by them. It is all falling together now. I have found the final truth and it is they who have lost the race. I hold the key. I will now be able to enjoy the advantage without paying the ultimate price of defeat and destruction, or of collaborating with them.

Now I have only to implement my knowledge, to publish the fact, and one shadow at least will be lifted from mankind. I will do it at once. Well, nearly at once. It is almost dawn in the normal world. I will sit here a very little while and rest. Then I will go out and begin to make contact with the proper persons for the disposition of this thing. But first I will sit here a little while and rest.


50)
Come back, you fools. Dogs aren’t dangerous. Come back and fight!

51)
Item, I entreat the said executors, that if at any time they happen to meet with the author of a book now extant, entitled The Second Part of the Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha, they would from me most heartily beg his pardon for my being undesignedly the occasion of his writing such a parcel of impertinences as is contained in that book; for it is the greatest burthen to my departing soul, that ever I was the cause of his making such a thing public.

[*]


52)
Whore! Bitch! Cheating, fucking bitch!


53)
You did not expect it, William, not this conclusion, did you? This old man, by the grace of God, wins once more, does he not?

Find me now! Now I am the one who sees best!


54)
Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.

[*]


55)
. . . Indeed?
Thou mayest torment me as his wretched son
Hath done in murdering my Horatio;
But never shalt thou force me to reveal
The thing which I have vowed inviolate.
And therefore, in despite of all thy threats,
Pleased with their deaths, and eased with their revenge,
First take my tongue, and afterwards my heart!


56)
Crito, we ought to offer a cock to Asclepius. See to it, and don't forget.

[*]


57)
You must go away. This is the hour of my reincarnation. I must be alone with him. That you killed him is your glory. That I can take him to *them* is mine. Good-bye, for my life is beginning. Good-bye . . . good-bye.


58)
B-O-S-H.


59)
Quite the opposite. I never felt better.

[*]


60)
Now when you kick off, boy, I want a seventy-yard boot, and get right down the field under the ball, and when you hit, hit low and hit hard, because it’s important, boy . . . There’s all kinds of important people in the stands, and the first thing you know . . . Ben! Ben, where do I...? Ben, how do I...?

Sh! . . . Sh! Sh!

61)
Le’s do it now. Le’s get that place now.


62)
Do not in my death-hour, do not make me mad with terror. If that veil conceals hideous features, do not lift it! Take my life, but let me not see you.

Oh, if it indeed were so, and that I might die by a kiss from you!

[*]


63)
I think I feel good about it.


64)
How did you hate me? You killed almost everything in me.

Hold me. Stop defending yourself. Nothing changes you.


65)
Mama! Mama, Mama! I'm dying! . . . It was an accident. Blind, mindless, mechanical. Mere logic of chance . . . Accident . . . Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.


66)
Bad form!


67)
Oh yeah. Absolutely perfectly all right. No sweat. Beautiful night so far.


68)
I am lost! I must die! . . . Where am I to die?

[*, sort of]


69)
Right! And — boy oh boy — Thanksgiving in a few days. That’s something, that’s good times. ’N’ this business will be all over. We’ll have to really do something full-size for Thanksgiving.


70)
. . . Come, violent death,
Serve for mandragora to make me sleep! —
Go tell my brothers, when I am laid out,
They then may feed in quiet.

Mercy!

71)
Well, well, I must be off home. Thank you for a most interesting and instructive evening.


72)
I die through you.


73)
One blasphemy remains! Blasphemy! And the name of that blasphemy is Alia!


74)
I'm going to get the others. It's important, I got my pants dirty.

No, I got to go.


75)
. . . Must I die,
And unreveng’d? ’Tis doubly to be dead!
Yet ev’n this death with pleasure I receive:
On any terms, ’tis better than to live.
These flames, from far, may the false Trojan view;
These boding omens his base flight pursue!

[*]


76)
I am going a stranger journey than any we have ever taken together. Think of me sometimes. God bless you all. I shall wait for you.


77)
Bloody fool.


78)
Thou art God. Know that and the Way is opened.

I love you.

Thou art God.


79)
Christ, this is a dingy way to die.


80)
Wait a moment. I want to tell you. I, too, was once a young girl. I walked in the woods and looked at the birds, and I thought: how dreadful that people shut up birds in cages. I thought: if I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be any birds in cages, they should all be free —

*À ce moment de sa narration, Scheharazade vit paraître le matin, et, discrète, se tut.*

81)
Christ have mercy, Jesus have mercy, Christ receive my soul.


82)
Good-bye. Good-bye . . . . I kissed you that time, did I not, when, when — ? . . . Ah, breathe now upon the expiring lamp, that it may go out in peace.

Enough . . . Now let there come — darkness.

[*]


83)
I'm cold.


84)
Sure, I will, Hugo! Tomorrow! Beneath the willow trees!


85)
The curse is come upon me.


86)
I don't even know my own name.


87)
Well, and if I am ugly, still I have borne a son; although I am but a slave there is a son in my house . . . How can that one feed him and care for him as I do? Beauty will not bear a man sons!

88)
I am thine; do with me as thou seest best!


89)
The rest is silence.


90)
. . . Oh! whither shall I fly? Will she not be here anon? Is she not hurrying to upbraid me for my haste? Have I not heard her footstep on the stair? Do I not distinguish that heavy and horrible beating of her heart? Madman! . . . Madman! I tell you that she now stands without the door!

81)
Christ have mercy, Jesus have mercy, Christ receive my soul.


82)
Good-bye. Good-bye . . . . I kissed you that time, did I not, when, when — ? . . . Ah, breathe now upon the expiring lamp, that it may go out in peace.

Enough . . . Now let there come — darkness.

[*]


83)
I'm cold.


84)
Sure, I will, Hugo! Tomorrow! Beneath the willow trees!


85)
The curse is come upon me.


86)
I don't even know my own name.


87)
Well, and if I am ugly, still I have borne a son; although I am but a slave there is a son in my house . . . How can that one feed him and care for him as I do? Beauty will not bear a man sons!


88)
I am thine; do with me as thou seest best!


89)
The rest is silence.


90)
. . . Oh! whither shall I fly? Will she not be here anon? Is she not hurrying to upbraid me for my haste? Have I not heard her footstep on the stair? Do I not distinguish that heavy and horrible beating of her heart? Madman! . . . Madman! I tell you that she now stands without the door!

91)
. . . I am on the verge of departure, my children. Love each other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love for each other. You will think sometimes of the poor old man who died here. Oh my Cosette, it is not my fault, indeed, that I have not seen thee all this time, it cut me to the heart; I went as far as the corner of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw me pass, I was like a madman, I once went out without my hat. I no longer see clearly, my children, I had still other things to say, but never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give me your dear and well-beloved heads, so that I may lay my hands upon them.

[*]


92)
It’s a great big cold universe out there.

One lifetime just isn’t enough.

Hmm?

Yes?


93)
It’s for all of us. For John and you and Ringo and Joby and Louvinia. So we will have something when John comes back home. You never cried when you knew he was going into a battle, did you? And now I am taking no risk; I am a woman. Even Yankees do not harm old women. You and Ringo stay here until I call you.


94)
How . . . does . . . it feel . . . to be . . . so beautiful?


95)
Marky dance.


96)
The horror! The horror!


97)
All right. Then let me last until they come.


98)
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better resting-place that I go to, than I have ever known.


99)
. . . Oh, my last minute comes.
Where’er I go, let me enjoy this grace,
Freely to view My Annabella’s face.


100)
I am ready.

91)
. . . I am on the verge of departure, my children. Love each other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love for each other. You will think sometimes of the poor old man who died here. Oh my Cosette, it is not my fault, indeed, that I have not seen thee all this time, it cut me to the heart; I went as far as the corner of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw me pass, I was like a madman, I once went out without my hat. I no longer see clearly, my children, I had still other things to say, but never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give me your dear and well-beloved heads, so that I may lay my hands upon them.

[*]


92)
It’s a great big cold universe out there.

One lifetime just isn’t enough.

Hmm?

Yes?


93)
It’s for all of us. For John and you and Ringo and Joby and Louvinia. So we will have something when John comes back home. You never cried when you knew he was going into a battle, did you? And now I am taking no risk; I am a woman. Even Yankees do not harm old women. You and Ringo stay here until I call you.


94)
How . . . does . . . it feel . . . to be . . . so beautiful?


95)
Marky dance.


96)
The horror! The horror!


97)
All right. Then let me last until they come.


98)
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better resting-place that I go to, than I have ever known.


99)
. . . Oh, my last minute comes.
Where’er I go, let me enjoy this grace,
Freely to view my Annabella’s face.


100)
I am ready.

>>22734978
47 is Josef K. of Kafka's Trial
>>22734983
Some weird intuitive sense tells me that this is Socrates in Phaedo
>>22735011
89 is obviously Hamlet

>>22735011
83 is Snowden in Catch-22
>>22736287
(forgot to mention that the Plato/Socrates one is 56)

>>22734946
>5
Antigone
>17
Faust
>34
Glanton from BM
>35
...patroclus? There were so many deaths in the Iliad it's hard to keep track.
>45
Naphta
>54
Jesus? His last words vary a bit from gospel to gospel, so this might be in one of them. Alternatively, Stephen Protomartyr.
>56
Socrates
>96
The guy from Heart of Darkness, whose name I forgot.

>>22736287
>>22736291

And we're off!


>47 is Josef K. of Kafka's Trial
Correct.

>Some weird intuitive sense tells me that this is Socrates in Phaedo
>(forgot to mention that the Plato/Socrates one is 56)
Correct. So he thought that life was a sickness and death the cure, eh?

>83 is Snowden in Catch-22
It sure is. Joseph Heller said in an interview that he got the idea for "I'm cold" from King Lear ("Poor Tom's a-cold").

>89 is obviously Hamlet
Nothing's obvious these days, sadly, But yes, it is.


A fine 4/4 to get things moving.

>>22736352
>So he thought that life was a sickness and death the cure, eh?
The chicken is for the recovery of Plato, who is stated to be ill at the start of the dialogue.

>>22736350

Another excellent haul. I really need to find a new animated gif of a cute anime girl giving a thumbs-up. Maybe AI can make 'em now.


>5
>Antigone
Correct. Sophocles. Basically a little plot summary so work-out-able I guess.

>17
>Faust
Correct. There are two famous Fausts, of course. Christopher Marlowe and Goethe. But this one hasn't got a [*] which narrows it down.

>34
>Glanton from BM
Correct. Cormac McCarthy.

>35
>...patroclus? There were so many deaths in the Iliad it's hard to keep track.
Right, Patroclus. Logically it's going to be him, saying, OK, you got me, but my buddy's gonna waste ya.

>45
>Naphta
Correct. If anyone's wondering, it's The Magic Mountain.

>54
>Jesus? His last words vary a bit from gospel to gospel, so this might be in one of them. Alternatively, Stephen Protomartyr.
Yeah, it's Stephen. Acts, generally reckoned to have been written by Saint Luke. KJV translation.

>56
>Socrates
Correct. Already ID'd but confirmation never hurt.

>96
>The guy from Heart of Darkness, whose name I forgot.
Correct. Marlon Br — sorry, I mean Kurtz.

>>22736359
Hmm. Most people think otherwise don't they? IIRC, Nietzsche thought that one comment showed how Socrates was actually full of RESENTMENT. Of course Nietzsche might be completely bonkers.

>>22736387
I suppose there's no way to prove it. However, Plato seems to enjoy nodding to himself in non-obvious ways. For example, the tree Socrates and Phaedrus talk under in the Phaedrus is literally called "Plato Tree" (i.e. broad tree, plane tree) in Greek.

A lot of intriguing excerpts. I'll have to re-read more closely, because I only caught two on my first time through:

22) Captain Ahab from Moby Dick ("From hell's heart I stab at thee", etc.)
91) Jean Valjean from Les Miserables

>>22736411

>22) Captain Ahab from Moby Dick ("From hell's heart I stab at thee", etc.)
Correct. GO MOBY DICK! BITE HIS OTHER LEG OFF

>91) Jean Valjean from Les Miserables
Correct.

You have to read a lot of pages to get to these two extracts.

>>22734950
>one of a man writing because he cannot speak.)
Before I read any quote I want to guess if this is A Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

>>22734960
>8
Wizard of Oz by Baum the Wicked Witch melting.

>>22736449
I don't see Carson McCullers in the author list, so . . .

>>22736467

>8
>Wizard of Oz by Baum the Wicked Witch melting.
Correct. The Wicked Witch of the West. Let's have a witch-themed thumbs-up while we're about it.

>>22734964
>12)
Robin Hood specifically Howard Pyle's version

>>22736490

>12)
>Robin Hood specifically Howard Pyle's version
Correct. "The Merry Adventures Of Robin Hood Of Great Renown In Nottinghamshire And Nearby Places In About Twelve Hundred A. D." or some such absurdly long title.

>>22734973
>34)
Staunton from Blood Meridian

>>22736551
>34)
>Staunton from Blood Meridian
More-or-less. Glanton.

>>22734983
>51)
Uhh Is it Don Quixote?

>>22736581
>51)
>Uhh Is it Don Quixote?
It sure is. I thought this would be one of the first ones answered but no, it foxed everyone . . .

>>22734988
>65)
I recognize this as a scene from Beowulf so I'll say this is the original by Unknown. If it is someone else adapting it then you got me.

>>22736593

>65)
>I recognize this as a scene from Beowulf
You're right, Grendel means Beowulf.

>so I'll say this is the original by Unknown.
Nope, sorry. In the original poem, you never see Grendel's death. He just runs off into the night. Also he can't talk. (Or doesn't, anyway.)

>If it is someone else adapting it then you got me.
Yeah, it's a modern retelling from Grendel's P.O.V., so I'm attributing it to the new author. Of course, the original Beowulf might be elsewhere in the list. That would be extra sneaky though.

Only two more from a second read-through, and it's been too long since reading either book for me to identify the character. Still several authors I thought I would recognize, so I might be back tomorrow.

10) The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson?
32) Neuromancer

>>22736633
10) The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson
Correct. She's just called "The Witch"; I don't think she gets a name. When Orm the Strong burns the guy's house down at the start, she's that guy's mother, who vows vengeance.

32) Neuromancer
Correct. It's Willis Corto, the mad Special Forces guy who gets reinvented as "Armitage" (the man who hires Case). He collapses back to his original personality and starts re-living his doomed mission. Wintermute (the A.I.) ejects him into space.

>>22736633

>10) The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson
Correct. She's just called "the witch"; I don't think she gets a name. Orm the Strong burns a guy's house down at the start. She's that guy's mother, who vows vengeance.

>32) Neuromancer
Correct. It's Willis Corto, the mad Special Forces guy who gets reinvented as "Armitage" (the man who hires Case). He collapses back to his original personality and starts re-living his doomed mission. Wintermute (the A.I.) ejects him into space.

>>22735011
>90)
Edgar Allan Poe. NOT Tell Tale Heart but Fall of the of of Usher. Can't fool me.

>>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.

>>22734988
>66)
>Bad form!
I had to go dig up my copy of Peter Pan by Barrie for this one. These are the final words of Captain Hook.

>>22736829

>Bad form!
>I had to go dig up my copy of Peter Pan by Barrie for this one. These are the final words of Captain Hook.
Correct. Because PP kicks him to the crocodile rather than killing him with his sword. No idea why this counts as bad form.

>>22734968
24 is In Cold Blood

>>22736879

>24 is In Cold Blood
Correct. Perry Smith. Capote likes him a bit too much for my taste, but there we are.

>>22736620
Grendel by John Gardener

>>22734960
Samson from the Bible. I'm not sure which writer you put for this one.

>>22737214
Forgot to say it is number 2.

>>22734964
>18)
>Anyway, I used to hate Iggy Pop but now that he's so commercial I like him a lot better than —
A shot in the dark but the pop music talk makes me think American Psycho.

>>22737036
>Grendel by John Gardener
65, right.

>>22737214
>>22737223
>Samson from the Bible. I'm not sure which writer you put for this one.
>Forgot to say it is number 2.
Correct. Book of Judges. I'm treating it as 'Unknown Author'. (Some suggest Samuel wrote it.)

>>22737267
>18)
>Anyway, I used to hate Iggy Pop but now that he's so commercial I like him a lot better than —
>A shot in the dark but the pop music talk makes me think American Psycho.
It could be. If it is, maybe someone can nail the character. (As you might say.)

>>22734964
>15 - the fish mouthed Charlotte in Nabokov's kino - /lit/ really missed this one?
>>22735029
>98 - the drunken jackal in Dickens tale of 2 cities
thanks for reminding me of the days i actually read books

>>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.

Bump.

A hint:

Female Authors: 16, 19, 30, 41, 42, 46, 71, 80, 81, 87

>6)
Seymour Glass, Bananafish
>19)
The granny from A Good Man is Hard to Find, forget if she had a name

Suck at these things but always fun to participate, thanks OP

>>22739365
>42)
Got it now, Mrs. Hutchinson from The Lottery

>>22734960

5 is Tiresias ? Oedipus Rex ?

>>22739380
>42)
>Got it now, Mrs. Hutchinson from The Lottery
Correct, Shirley Jackson. But I actually realized it's not quite accurate. The full quotation is "It isn't fair, it isn't right". Oh well, you got it anyway.

>>22739388
>5 is Tiresias ? Oedipus Rex ?
No, although it is Sophocles. It's Antigone, being led away to execution, in the play of the same name (someone already got it).

>>22734968
>23)
>You always do what Sharkey says, don’t you Worm. Well now he says, follow!
This is Return of the King by Tolkien. Sharkey is speaking or as some know him as Saruman.

>>22734973
31 feels like part of the arthurian legends. Never read then however, so I can't say for sure

>>22739365
16 is...Cake? From Their Eyes are Watching God. Been like a decade.
19 I think is flannery o conner but I forget the character's name. Grandma?
41 Catherine from Wuthering Heights

>>22740445
>23)
>You always do what Sharkey says, don’t you Worm. Well now he says, follow!
>This is Return of the King by Tolkien. Sharkey is speaking or as some know him as Saruman.
Correct. "Worm" being Grima Wormtongue, who then cuts his throat.

>>22740523
>31 feels like part of the arthurian legends. Never read then however, so I can't say for sure
It's from the general same time period as King Arthur, but it's not him. It's just one small part of a very big work. Notice it's translated.

>>22739368

>6)
>Seymour Glass, Bananafish
Correct. In the lift going up to his hotel room.

>19)
>The granny from A Good Man is Hard to Find, forget if she had a name
Of course. I think she's always just called ‘The Grandma’. That's how we think of her anyway.

>Suck at these things but always fun to participate, thanks OP
Two answers is a lot more than the /lit/ average.

>>22739368

>6)
>Seymour Glass, Bananafish
Correct. In the lift going up to his hotel room.

>19)
>The granny from A Good Man is Hard to Find, forget if she had a name
Of course. I think she's always just called ‘The Grandmother’. That's how we think of her anyway.

>Suck at these things but always fun to participate, thanks OP
Two correct is a lot more than the /lit/ average.

>>22740566

>16 is...Cake? From Their Eyes are Watching God. Been like a decade.
Correct. Tea Cake, Zora Neal Hurston. Just before Janie has to shoot him.

>19 I think is flannery o conner but I forget the character's name. Grandma?
Yup, The Grandmother from A Good Man Is Hard To Find (someone got it earlier but I only just noticed it).

>41 Catherine from Wuthering Heights
Correct. She then has the child and dies that night. It's possible she says something later, but we don't hear about it.

Bumpity umpity
Out of the slumpity!

A modest hint — ten different ways the speakers die:

7 — crushed by tree
14 — beheading
28 — falling
38 — shot with arrow
43 — hit by boulder
60 — car crash
69 — drowning
72 — burning
86 — bomb [something of a trick question]
94 — gunshot

Bump.

>>22742334
>60 — car crash
The Thanksgiving talk and crash vaguely makes me think Athur Millers Death of a Salesman, the dad/salesman
>86 — bomb [something of a trick question]
I'm not sure but PKD is one the author list and Ubik has a bomb and that would be a tricky case like you said given the weird ass way things unfold after the bomb.
Plus I recall some memory mind fucking going on the makes people forget names and shit potentially. I'll say that it is the main antagonist of Ubik. The secret boy villain after all the dozen red herring villains.

>>22742334
>72 — burning
The hint I needed. I read Mark Twain's Recollection of Joan of Arc earlier this year and wondered if that was the book and character for him on the list but couldn't remember exactly Joan's last words. This is Joan. I'm sure now.

>>22742334
>43)
Piggy from Lord of the Flies?

>>22743431

>60 — car crash
>The Thanksgiving talk and crash vaguely makes me think Athur Millers Death of a Salesman, the dad/salesman
Right. Willy Loman.


>86 — bomb [something of a trick question]
>I'm not sure but PKD is on the author list and Ubik has a bomb and that would be a tricky case like you said given the weird ass way things unfold after the bomb.
Sensible guess, but it isn't Ubik (or any other PKD). It's that sort of thing, though — i.e. it's a moot point exactly what the character's last words are.

>>22743461

>72 — burning
>Mark Twain's Recollection of Joan of Arc
Correct. Her rejoinder when Cauchon approaches her at the stake and says, repent.

>>22743496

>43)
>Piggy from Lord of the Flies?
Correct. William Golding.

>>22737615
Paul Owen, at the hands of that dastardly Halberstam. Had to pull out my copy and check, happens a lot later than I seem to remember.

>>22743696
>Paul Owen
Correct.

>happens a lot later than I seem to remember.
It's later in the book than the film, I think.

>>22735011
>82)
bazarov in Fathers and Sons

>>22743801
>82)
>bazarov in Fathers and Sons
Correct, Turgenev. Every male Russian character is about half an inch away from nihilism.

>>22735029
>92)
This has the sci fi and nihilism but also a little hopeful feeling of a Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide book. I never read the final book if the series so no clue who this could be if not the main protagonist of the series.

>>22743884
>92)
>This has the sci fi and nihilism but also a little hopeful feeling of a Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide book. I never read the final book if the series so no clue who this could be if not the main protagonist of the series.
Arthur Dent does die in the last Hitch-Hikers book ('Mostly Harmless'). But this isn't Douglas Adams, sorry.

>>22743945
Damn I'm bad at this

Bump. Another modest clue — eleven speakers die of natural causes (* = already identified):

41 — illness + childbirth *
44 — old age
49 — old age (with a twist)
51 — old age *
58 — stroke
63 — old age
82 — illness *
87 — old age & illness
91 — old age & illness *
92 — old age
95 — pneumonia

44) Farewell, Mr. Chips by James Hilton?

>>22745381
>44) Farewell, Mr. Chips by James Hilton?
‘Goodbye, Mr Chips’, yes. Weird that he wrote that and Lost Horizon. Two completely separate things.

>>22734973
40 is Captain Beatty from Farenheit 451. Who would have guessed taunting a guy with a gun after burning his house and worse, his books is not going to end well

>>22745509

>40 is Captain Beatty from Farenheit 451.
It sure is. Just before he gets torched.

>Who would have guessed taunting a guy with a gun after burning his house and worse, his books is not going to end well
Most people take it that he's more-or-less committing suicide, don't they? i.e. he wants Guy to kill him.

>>22734993
73)
The Preacher

>>22745629
Might he have another name?

Bump. Maybe I'm being stingy not allowing this

>>22745629

but I think it's fair to ask for a little more identification of the character. (The author & book wouldn't hurt.)

>>22734973
>39)
John the Savage from Brave New World

>>22747282
>39)
>John the Savage from Brave New World
Correct.

Can I get a status update on progress and maybe the ones partially answered?

>>22747558
>Can I get a status update on progress and maybe the ones partially answered?

You can when I wake up. These are answered:


2 — Samson ('Book of Judges', Unknown Author)
5 — Antigone ('Antigone', Sophocles)
6 — Seymour Glass ('A Perfect Day For Bananafish', J. D. Salinger)
8 — The Wicked Witch of the West ('The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', Frank L. Baum)
10 — The Witch ('The Broken Sword', Poul Anderson)

12 — Robin Hood ('The Merry Adventures Of Robin Hood . . . ', Howard Pyle)
15 — Charlotte Haze ('Lolita', Vladimir Nabokov)
16 — Tea Cake ('Their Eyes are Watching God', Zora Neal Hurston)
17 — Faust ('Doctor Faustus', Christopher Marlowe)
18 — Paul Allen ('American Psycho', Bret Easton Ellis)
19 — The Grandmother ('A Good Man is Hard to Find', Flannery O'Connor)

22 — Captain Ahab ('Moby Dick', Herman Melville)
23 — Saruman ('The Return of the King', J. R. R. Tolkien)
24 — Perry Smith ('In Cold Blood', Truman Capote)

32 — Armitage / Willis Corto ('Neuromancer', William Gibson)
34 — Glanton ('Blood Meridian', Cormac McCarthy)
35 — Patroclus ('The Iliad', Homer)
39 — John the Savage ('Brave New World', Aldous Huxley)
40 — Captain Beatty ('Farenheit 451', Ray Bradbury)

41 — Catherine Earnshaw ('Wuthering Heights', Emily Bronte)
42 — Tessie Hutchinson ('The Lottery', Shirley Jackson)
43 — Piggy ('Lord of the Flies', William Golding)
44 — Mr. Chips (‘Goodbye, Mr Chips’, James Hilton)
45 — Naphta ('The Magic Mountain', Thomas Mann)
47 — K. ('The Trial', Franz Kafka)

51 — Don Quixote ('Don Quixote', Miguel Cervantes)
54 — Stephen ('Acts of the Apostles', Saint Luke)
56 — Socrates ('Phaedo', Plato)
60 — Willy Loman ('Death of a Salesman', Arthur Miller)

65 — Grendel ('Grendel', John Gardener)
66 — Captain Hook ('Peter Pan', J. M. Barrie)

72 — Joan of Arc ('Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc', Mark Twain)

82 — Bazarov ('Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev)
83 — Snowden ('Catch-22', Joseph Heller)
89 — Hamlet ('Hamlet', William Shakespeare)
90 — Roderick Usher ('The Fall of the of House of Usher', Edgar Allan Poe)

91 — Jean Valjean ('Les Miserables', Victor Hugo)
96 — Kurtz ('Heart of Darkness', Joseph Conrad)
98 — Sydney Carton ('A Tale Of Two Cities', Charles Dickens)


That's 38/100 so far, unless I missed something.

>>22748676

Clues to those still unsolved:

Female Authors: 30, 46, 71, 80, 81, 87

7 — crushed by tree
14 — beheading
28 — falling
38 — shot with arrow
49 — old age (with a twist)
58 — stroke
63 — old age
86 — bomb [something of a trick question] [& not Philip K. Dick]
87 — old age & illness
92 — old age [not Douglas Adams]
94 — gunshot
95 — pneumonia


Also, someone answered #73 as "The Preacher" and I'm not saying that's wrong but I think we need a little more information before the cute anime girl gives it her seal of approval.

Bump.

>29)
>Ah! I have kissed thy mouth, Jokanaan,
Oscar Wilde Salome
>>22734973
>31)
>Sir Guillaume de Guardestaing!
Decameron Boccaccio
>37)
>Charlotte
Sorrows of Young Werther's by Goethe
>61)
Lenny Of Mice and Men

>>22750861

>29)
>Ah! I have kissed thy mouth, Jokanaan,
>Oscar Wilde Salome
Right. Salomé herself, just before getting crushed by the soldiers. I thought this was relatively well-known (much more so than some of the others people got).


>31)
>Sir Guillaume de Guardestaing!
>Decameron Boccaccio
Correct. Lady De Roussillon, immediately after her husband tells her she's just eaten her lover's heart, and immedlately before she jumps out of the window. Day 4, story 9, as it happens.


>37)
>Charlotte
>Sorrows of Young Werther's by Goethe
Correct.


>61)
>Lenny Of Mice and Men
Of course. Think about the rabbits, Lenny.

>>22750891
Chock up Salome being a curve ball with it being marked Translation and most know Wilde for his English writing.

>>22751074
>Salome being a curve ball with it being marked Translation
The whole issue of whether something is a translation is a bit fuzzy. Wilde wrote it in French and then Alfred Douglas translated it into English. But Wilde then revised the translation himself. I could have put [*, sort of].

Bump.