Andu Indorin
Retired Druid
That's gotta to be close the mark; it sounds so much like Hemingway's prose!
Cumulative quiz...Literature
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That's gotta to be close the mark; it sounds so much like Hemingway's prose!
Az
Emperor
I'm 100% sure it's Hemingway...
In that case Q #5 is yours Simon!
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In that case Q #5 is yours Simon!
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Simon Darkshade
Mysterious City of Gold
OK.
Here is a fairly simple one:
What was Meursault executed for in L'Etranger?
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Here is a fairly simple one:
What was Meursault executed for in L'Etranger?
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Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
- N.S.Khrushchev
duke o' york
It don't mean a thing....
Definitely murder. Possibly a shooting. I think it was at the beach.
Ages since I read it I'm afraid, but I was looking at buying it the other day so maybe you've inspired me to get it. I've got a copy somewhere, but it'll be under so much stuff a new one'd be much easier.
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Ages since I read it I'm afraid, but I was looking at buying it the other day so maybe you've inspired me to get it. I've got a copy somewhere, but it'll be under so much stuff a new one'd be much easier.
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duke o' york
It don't mean a thing....
Right then. He shot an Arab at the beach when he was attacked with a knife. Camus makes a lot of the sun having to do with his out of character murder, but most of it wouldn't (and doesn't) wash in court. He got the gun from Raymond and basically went back to the beach looking for trouble.
La Nausée is much better though.
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La Nausée is much better though.
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Simon Darkshade
Mysterious City of Gold
That may be the obvious answer, but not what I'm looking for. Try again, and reflect.
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Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
- N.S.Khrushchev
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Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
- N.S.Khrushchev
Simon Darkshade
Mysterious City of Gold
This looks to have killed off responses, so I'll just give the answer. He was executed for not crying at his mother's funeral.
Someone else can play now
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Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
- N.S.Khrushchev
Someone else can play now
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Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
- N.S.Khrushchev
duke o' york
It don't mean a thing....
He was executed for his crime. The thing about not crying at his mother's funeral is just there so that Camus can emphasise the point of his being an outsider. Without it, then the central premise of the novel would be a little flimsy. He is sentenced for murder though, and the mother's funeral episode makes an important character reference at the trial, but he is never charged with it. Camus' Algeria is quite realistic, and he wouldn't endanger this by having Meursault killed because of defying social convention, although he hints very strongly that this is the real reason. Basically Meursault is doomed from the start because he refuses (or is unable) to accept and follow the rules society imposes upon him.
I realise that I didn't get the answer you want, but you did ask someone for a new question:
#6. What were JRR Tolkien's first names?
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I realise that I didn't get the answer you want, but you did ask someone for a new question:
#6. What were JRR Tolkien's first names?
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Simon Darkshade
Mysterious City of Gold
John Ronald Reul. I know this is right.
I will contend that it is more than an important character reference, it is the symptomatic example of the overall "outsider" status he holds dear.
They way I read it, if he acted "normal" in the investigation and trial, he would not have got the chop. As it was, it was his detatched aura that enable the prosecutor to paint him as a cold blooded murderer.
Besides, IMO, it sounds much better
Society "condones" murder or killing, if done with appropriate accompaniment, more than it does someone setting aside its essential pillars and strictures.
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Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
- N.S.Khrushchev
I will contend that it is more than an important character reference, it is the symptomatic example of the overall "outsider" status he holds dear.
They way I read it, if he acted "normal" in the investigation and trial, he would not have got the chop. As it was, it was his detatched aura that enable the prosecutor to paint him as a cold blooded murderer.
Besides, IMO, it sounds much better
Society "condones" murder or killing, if done with appropriate accompaniment, more than it does someone setting aside its essential pillars and strictures.
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Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
- N.S.Khrushchev
duke o' york
It don't mean a thing....
Damn, I definitely wrote a reply to Darkshade's answer, but I think my Explorer was knackered and it wasn't transferred properly. Oh, well, here's something vaguely resembling what I wrote earlier:
You right! (You spelled Reuel wrong, but hell, you very right!) I shouldn't be so impressed that someone else knew it off the top of their head, especially given the amount of fantasy-related threads there are here and the FF ones in the Other Games section.
I shan't continue the Camus debate here, especially since someone has opened a thread about existentialism and all that jazz, or whatever it is called. I think our philosophical discourse, interesting though it was, was bogging down the lit questions a bit.
So a new question please Darkshade!
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You right! (You spelled Reuel wrong, but hell, you very right!) I shouldn't be so impressed that someone else knew it off the top of their head, especially given the amount of fantasy-related threads there are here and the FF ones in the Other Games section.
I shan't continue the Camus debate here, especially since someone has opened a thread about existentialism and all that jazz, or whatever it is called. I think our philosophical discourse, interesting though it was, was bogging down the lit questions a bit.
So a new question please Darkshade!
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Simon Darkshade
Mysterious City of Gold
In a certain novel we find the following passage:
"My father died many years ago now - of natural causes. So it goes. He was a sweet man. He was a gun nut, too. He left me his guns. They rust."
What was the name and profession of the man who wrote/said this?
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Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
- N.S.Khrushchev
"My father died many years ago now - of natural causes. So it goes. He was a sweet man. He was a gun nut, too. He left me his guns. They rust."
What was the name and profession of the man who wrote/said this?
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Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
- N.S.Khrushchev
