>>24829260
>Okay, a few more came to me on a re-read:
A cunning ploy to increase your haul of cute anime girls!
>30 Pieces of Silver for Judas Iscariot
Right. In the Gospel of St. Matthew specifically (loads of stuff is only in this one).
>1000 Ships Launched by the Face of Helen of Troy (in Marlow)
>1186 according to Homer's catalog of ships
Correct. The Christopher Marlowe work being Doctor Faustus of course. "Is this the face that launched a thousand ships / And burned the topless towers of Ilium?" (Isaac Asimov, IIRC, once suggested that the international unit for female beauty should be the millihelen, which is the amount of beauty capable of launching one ship.)
>111: Bilbo Baggins' Birthday (The Fellowship of the Ring)
Right, J. R. R. Tolkien. "Eleventy-first" and all that.
>On the other hand, I see Herman Melville now that I read the author list and am stumped.
Well if everything got solved immediately people would ask for their money back and quite right too.
>Ishmael's 777th lay is notably absent.
I did originally consider including that (in the “Check ’em” section, obviously).
>The clue for 960 ends with "in MD", which could refer to Moby Dick, but that number doesn't ring any bells. Or am I barking up the wrong mast?
Ducks don't bark. They quack, don’t they?
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>>24544813
All good, more or less —
>11. Melville, Moby-Dick
Correct, although Duck Man already got it.
>49. H.D., from Sea Garden?
Hilda Doolittle, yes. Sea Garden, no (although that does have a lot of Classical stuff too). It's a poem called ‘Lethe’, first published in the collection ‘Heliodorus’.
>56. Hegel, preface to the Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts
Right. I guess Minerva is Roman but she’s just Athene with a new paint job.
>68. Pynchon, Mason & Dixon?
Correct.
>74. Mann, Death in Venice
A gondolier as Charon.
>82. Sterne, Tristram Shandy
Right. Proteus being the Greek of course. Uncle Toby a big help I guess.
All good, more or less —
>11. Melville, Moby-Dick
Correct, although Duck Man already got it.
>49. H.D., from Sea Garden?
Hilda Doolittle, yes. Sea Garden, no (although that does have a lot of Classical stuff too). It's a poem called ‘Lethe’, first published in the collection ‘Heliodorus’.
>56. Hegel, preface to the Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts
Right. I guess Minerva is Roman but she’s just Athene with a new paint job.
>68. Pynchon, Mason & Dixon?
Correct.
>74. Mann, Death in Venice
A gondolier as Charon.
>82. Sterne, Tristram Shandy
Right. Proteus being the Greek of course. Uncle Toby a big help I guess.
>>24490242
>93 is from The Dead by Joyce (he even says the title)
>94 is The Sound and The Fury by Faulkner
Both correct.
>93 is from The Dead by Joyce (he even says the title)
>94 is The Sound and The Fury by Faulkner
Both correct.
>>24475926
>#74
>Another shot in the dark:
>James Ellroy, Clandestine?
Nope.
>#10
>This Harry Crews?
Nope.
>#23
>Murakami?
Correct. Someone must remember a Murakami book with a Hegel-quoting prostitute?
>#24
>Not at all one of my childhood recollections of Fanny Hill, but this must be John Cleland's book right HERE
Correct. Perhaps unsporting to choose one of the rare U-rated sections.
>#31
>Damn it, this is more likely Harry Crews
Correct. ‘The Mulching Of America’. Not one of his most famous titles, but a bunch of character names make up for the obscurity, maybe.
>#74
>Another shot in the dark:
>James Ellroy, Clandestine?
Nope.
>#10
>This Harry Crews?
Nope.
>#23
>Murakami?
Correct. Someone must remember a Murakami book with a Hegel-quoting prostitute?
>#24
>Not at all one of my childhood recollections of Fanny Hill, but this must be John Cleland's book right HERE
Correct. Perhaps unsporting to choose one of the rare U-rated sections.
>#31
>Damn it, this is more likely Harry Crews
Correct. ‘The Mulching Of America’. Not one of his most famous titles, but a bunch of character names make up for the obscurity, maybe.