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6/27/2025, 8:03:53 PM
>>24501002
Mostly good here:—
>#25
>I'm going with this as my own contribution to the hunt for Wilkie Collins (Moonstone-- which is the correct work, right?) because if it's not this one then it's #57....
Naaa. Tone all wrong. WC is serious (well, melodrama-serious).
>#37
>Topaz McGonagall
Of course. ‘The Battle Of Corunna’. I expected this to be one of the first to go. Anyone who speaks the verse aloud should recognize the unique William M. metrical touch right away.
>#40
>Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
Correct. Buffalo Bill (and Ardelia Mapp the roommate) both in the film, although I think they dropped the bit about the moth drinking tears.
>#41
>>perhapses
>Must be Beckett
Right. ‘The Unnameable’.
> in English.. I think...
Maybe should have marked this one as a translation since he did write the trilogy in French originally. But he translated this book into English himself, which makes a difference I think.
>#42
>>thumbs
>Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls..
‘Even Cowgirls Get The Blues’, right. Sissy plus thumbs a big hint.
>#45
>This is Look Homeward, Angel
Sure is. Thomas Wolfe.
>the howler's Eugene Gant's ridiculous father
One man's ridiculous is another man's magnificent. He lives by his own rules and we have to respect that.
>#57
>Wilkie Collins, Moonstone..
Correct. Rosanna Spearman's suicide-note-cum-confession, basically.
>*far more likely given the narrative set up, plus 'go to bed with it' feels not just off, but way off
As mentioned above.
>#69
>This is Edward Fitzgerald.
Right, Rubaiyat.
>I always revert to the thought that the Rubaiyat is 'in the manner of' and not a 'translation of'
Well that's why I credited Fitzgerald rather than Omar K. as author (even though it's marked as a translation).
Mostly good here:—
>#25
>I'm going with this as my own contribution to the hunt for Wilkie Collins (Moonstone-- which is the correct work, right?) because if it's not this one then it's #57....
Naaa. Tone all wrong. WC is serious (well, melodrama-serious).
>#37
>Topaz McGonagall
Of course. ‘The Battle Of Corunna’. I expected this to be one of the first to go. Anyone who speaks the verse aloud should recognize the unique William M. metrical touch right away.
>#40
>Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
Correct. Buffalo Bill (and Ardelia Mapp the roommate) both in the film, although I think they dropped the bit about the moth drinking tears.
>#41
>>perhapses
>Must be Beckett
Right. ‘The Unnameable’.
> in English.. I think...
Maybe should have marked this one as a translation since he did write the trilogy in French originally. But he translated this book into English himself, which makes a difference I think.
>#42
>>thumbs
>Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls..
‘Even Cowgirls Get The Blues’, right. Sissy plus thumbs a big hint.
>#45
>This is Look Homeward, Angel
Sure is. Thomas Wolfe.
>the howler's Eugene Gant's ridiculous father
One man's ridiculous is another man's magnificent. He lives by his own rules and we have to respect that.
>#57
>Wilkie Collins, Moonstone..
Correct. Rosanna Spearman's suicide-note-cum-confession, basically.
>*far more likely given the narrative set up, plus 'go to bed with it' feels not just off, but way off
As mentioned above.
>#69
>This is Edward Fitzgerald.
Right, Rubaiyat.
>I always revert to the thought that the Rubaiyat is 'in the manner of' and not a 'translation of'
Well that's why I credited Fitzgerald rather than Omar K. as author (even though it's marked as a translation).
6/19/2025, 11:33:46 AM
>>24478295
>45
>Fenglong
>>24478317
>The Oil Vendor and Courtesan
Correct.
>41
>Arabs are desert people.
Correct . . .
>Saadawi
. . . but nope.
>58
>Dazai No Longer Human
Correct.
>it starts with "I am so unhappy" and they guy is a moppy fuck
He is certainly moppy, although it's the woman (Tsuneko) who is talking about being moppy in that passage.
>>24478308
>mopey
He’s both, let’s face it.
>45
>Fenglong
>>24478317
>The Oil Vendor and Courtesan
Correct.
>41
>Arabs are desert people.
Correct . . .
>Saadawi
. . . but nope.
>58
>Dazai No Longer Human
Correct.
>it starts with "I am so unhappy" and they guy is a moppy fuck
He is certainly moppy, although it's the woman (Tsuneko) who is talking about being moppy in that passage.
>>24478308
>mopey
He’s both, let’s face it.
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