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7/13/2025, 11:07:27 AM
>>24545142
Yes all good here:
>75) Bertie Wooster thinking of Damocles
The Code Of The Woosters. His aunt wants him to go and sneer at something in an antique shop so the owner will sell it cheaply to her husband. (I really don’t like this aunt very much.)
>77) Paradise Lost
Satan sneaking up on Eve.
>85) Ivanhoe
Eum(a)eus being Odysseus’s loyal swineherd.
>91) The Count of Monte Cristo
When they go to see someone being executed by mace.
>Its hometown of Ephesus saw both Greeks and Romans.
I checked and it is indeed quite a famous duck. I must have seen it before. Should have recognized it as a Roman.
>but it's such a nice duck.
All ducks are nice but not all get their own star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
Yes all good here:
>75) Bertie Wooster thinking of Damocles
The Code Of The Woosters. His aunt wants him to go and sneer at something in an antique shop so the owner will sell it cheaply to her husband. (I really don’t like this aunt very much.)
>77) Paradise Lost
Satan sneaking up on Eve.
>85) Ivanhoe
Eum(a)eus being Odysseus’s loyal swineherd.
>91) The Count of Monte Cristo
When they go to see someone being executed by mace.
>Its hometown of Ephesus saw both Greeks and Romans.
I checked and it is indeed quite a famous duck. I must have seen it before. Should have recognized it as a Roman.
>but it's such a nice duck.
All ducks are nice but not all get their own star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
6/22/2025, 9:24:40 PM
>>24487879
>Secretly
But who would want to hide being a duck? Ducks are the top of every hierarchy.
12½/13 here, more or less:—
>8) Is this Hector in the Iliad?
Sure is. δακρυόεν γελάσασα (‘smiling through tears’) being the bit everyone knows. Or should know.
>14) Assuming (mostly via name drop) that this is Alice in Wonderland.
Of course. The pool of tears she wept when she was enormous.
>19) Paradise Lost
Right. Eve being very sorry for her wrongdoing. Maybe.
>26) This is either Neuromancer or one of the sequels.
Case isn't in the sequels (except for five minutes at the end of Mona Lisa Overdrive) so Neuromancer it is.
>44) Metamorphoses?
More or less. Technically it's Ted Hughes, ‘Tales From Ovid’. One of the times I’m crediting the translator, since it’s at least as much Hughes as Ovid.
>51) I'm coming far out of left field, but could this be The Magus? I want to say the main character upset his girlfriend in a similar way.
Right author, wrong work. That makes it pretty easy I guess.
>48) Three Men in a Boat
Correct.
>64) Wind in the Willows
Correct. Toad wracked with remorse, guilt and self-pity. Cheer up, Toad. Prospects will improve in just a couple of chapters.
>73) Moby Dick (the Rachel seeking the captain's son)
Right.
>74) Remains of the Day
Right. Another mildly helpful character name.
>84) Lord of the Flies?
Correct. I had to cut it off pretty short (talking about the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy would have made it a bit easy) but you got it anyway.
>85) Great Gatsby
Right. Daisy sees Gatsby’s wealth and wonders if she backed the wrong horse.
>92) The Aeneid
Correct.
>(also quoted by whatever 97 is)
‘sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt’ being another one of those classical snippets that everyone knows, or used to.
>Secretly
But who would want to hide being a duck? Ducks are the top of every hierarchy.
12½/13 here, more or less:—
>8) Is this Hector in the Iliad?
Sure is. δακρυόεν γελάσασα (‘smiling through tears’) being the bit everyone knows. Or should know.
>14) Assuming (mostly via name drop) that this is Alice in Wonderland.
Of course. The pool of tears she wept when she was enormous.
>19) Paradise Lost
Right. Eve being very sorry for her wrongdoing. Maybe.
>26) This is either Neuromancer or one of the sequels.
Case isn't in the sequels (except for five minutes at the end of Mona Lisa Overdrive) so Neuromancer it is.
>44) Metamorphoses?
More or less. Technically it's Ted Hughes, ‘Tales From Ovid’. One of the times I’m crediting the translator, since it’s at least as much Hughes as Ovid.
>51) I'm coming far out of left field, but could this be The Magus? I want to say the main character upset his girlfriend in a similar way.
Right author, wrong work. That makes it pretty easy I guess.
>48) Three Men in a Boat
Correct.
>64) Wind in the Willows
Correct. Toad wracked with remorse, guilt and self-pity. Cheer up, Toad. Prospects will improve in just a couple of chapters.
>73) Moby Dick (the Rachel seeking the captain's son)
Right.
>74) Remains of the Day
Right. Another mildly helpful character name.
>84) Lord of the Flies?
Correct. I had to cut it off pretty short (talking about the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy would have made it a bit easy) but you got it anyway.
>85) Great Gatsby
Right. Daisy sees Gatsby’s wealth and wonders if she backed the wrong horse.
>92) The Aeneid
Correct.
>(also quoted by whatever 97 is)
‘sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt’ being another one of those classical snippets that everyone knows, or used to.
6/18/2025, 12:16:16 AM
>>24474736
2½/5 here:
>#42
>is Houellebecq, and the novel is probably The Elementary Particles
Correct.
>#65
>is Somerset Maugham, the story 'Rain'
Also correct.
>#72
>is perhaps Graham Greene?
Nope. A more popular author on /lit/ than GG (although that's not saying much since no-one on /lit/ ever mentions GG).
>#74
>geez, this must be From Here to Eternity, James Jones
Nope.
>#82
>I'm gonna guess John Cheever
It is Cheever . . .
>Wapshot Chronicles.
. . . but not this.
2½/5 here:
>#42
>is Houellebecq, and the novel is probably The Elementary Particles
Correct.
>#65
>is Somerset Maugham, the story 'Rain'
Also correct.
>#72
>is perhaps Graham Greene?
Nope. A more popular author on /lit/ than GG (although that's not saying much since no-one on /lit/ ever mentions GG).
>#74
>geez, this must be From Here to Eternity, James Jones
Nope.
>#82
>I'm gonna guess John Cheever
It is Cheever . . .
>Wapshot Chronicles.
. . . but not this.
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