>>24830249
6/7 here, more or less:—

>[53] 50 Eggs Eaten by Cool Hand Luke (Donn Pearce)
Correct. Finally someone breaks into the food section.

>[54] 813.54 - Dewey Decimal Code of The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle)
Right. Well, I thought "Dewey Decimal Classification" but I guess Code is possible too. 813.54 = "American fiction in English from the period of 1945-1999", to be precise.


>[77] 26 - Height of Protagonist in Inches (The Dwarf) (Pär Lagerkvist)
Basically, yes, but "Protagonist" is a bit generic. There's a better alternative.

>[78] 60 - Height of Leopold Bloom(?) in Inches (James Joyce)
Nope lol. 60 inches is only 5 feet tall. Bloom is a bit pathetic in some ways but he’s not an uber-manlet. He is actually 5'9½ exactly:—

~~

Bloom’s decision?

A stratagem. Resting his feet on the dwarf wall, he climbed over the area railings, compressed his hat on his head, grasped two points at the lower union of rails and stiles, lowered his body gradually by its length of five feet nine inches and a half to within two feet ten inches of the area pavement and allowed his body to move freely in space by separating himself from the railings and crouching in preparation for the impact of the fall.

~~


>[85] 24 Letters in the Greek Alphabet
Right.

>[86] 537 Letters in Clarissa (Samuel Richardson)
Right. I thought the pun on ‘letters’ might wrongfoot people but apparently not. All the defences are crumbling.


>[75] 45 - Ezra Pound's Usura Canto?
Correct. The lack of punctuation made this one particularly tricky because you would naturally write it E P ‘U’ C. Getting "Canto" from its companion helps, I guess.

>>24500418
3/6 here:—


>1. Sylvia Plath, Applicant
Correct. From Ariel.

>2.
>the old phedinkus
>Runyon (over Twain; plus, Twain was a lover)
Right. From ‘Tobias The Terrible’. Small-town guy is sad because his GF thinks he's a wimp. He travels to the big city hoping to hobnob with gangsters and rehabilitate himself in her eyes. Visits gambling den. There's a police raid. All the gangsters give him their guns so they don't get pinched for carrying weapons. Tobias gets arrested with twelve guns on him and becomes a celebrity. Goes home and marries girl LIKE A BOSS.

I'm going to go on posting DR until people like him. Then once they like him I will go on posting him *because* they like him.

>4. must be Robert Burton, AM
Correct.

>7. Creepy. Going Highsmith, but it isn't one of the Ripleys
It isn't creepy! It's heartwarming. Well it could be creepy I suppose but it doesn't have to be. Not PH, anyway. This is a hard one.

>9. Dang, checked (the guesses): this isn't Henry James....
Lots of good stuff out there that isn't HJ.

>10.
>logic
>logic
>Wilkie Collins
Nope. Pretty much contemporaneous, though.

>>24480629

>97
>James Ellroy LA Confidential
Correct. Prostitutes who look like film stars should ring a bell from the film.

>89
>Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove
Correct. Lorena learns to read (and becomes a schoolteacher) in Streets Of Laredo, so she does eventually discover Gus’s parting words.