The DITLOID was named after a book, why not collect and/or concoct a hundred with a literary feel?


A few points:

The lack of punctuation extends to apostrophes. (“S S” could mean “Shakespeare’s Sonnets”, for example.)

Common words (‘the’, ‘of’, etc) are often, but not always, written out in full. So some ‘T’s might be ‘the’; some ‘O’s might be ‘of’, etc. Titles and direct quotations are generally reduced entirely to letters.

Some entries could reasonably be put in more than one category; just because an entry isn’t in group X doesn’t mean it absolutely can’t be of type X.

For people who have not met this sort of puzzle before:— one important thing to get used to is that some entries should be read as a continuous phrase (“6 ———> C I S O A A” = “Six Characters In Search Of An Author”) and others as a number followed by a definition / description (“451 ———> T A W P B in D F” = “451: Temperature At Which Paper Burns in Degrees Fahrenheit”).

[*] means the entry is not associated with a single known author.

Titles of non-Anglophone works appear in the form commonly used in English.

Hints on request.

The authors:

Douglas Adams, Henry Aldrich, Dante Alighieri, Hans Christian Andersen, Apuleius, Ludovico Ariosto, Isaac Asimov

William Blake, Giovanni Boccaccio, J. L. Borges, Patrick O’Brien, Rupert Brooke

Eric Carle, Lewis Carroll, James Hadley Chase, Geoffrey Chaucer, James Fenimore Cooper

King David, Osamu Dazai, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Isak Dinesen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas

Ferdowsi, Ian Fleming, Robert Frost

William Golding

Thomas Harris, Robert A. Heinlein, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, Frank Herbert, Homer, Victor Hugo

Washington Irving

W. W. Jacobs, Henry James, Jeremiah, St. John the Divine, St. John the Evangelist, James Joyce

Ken Kesey

R. A. Lafferty, Pär Lagerkvist, T. E. Lawrence, Stanislaw Lem, Hugh Lofting, H. W. Longfellow

Christopher Marlowe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Saint Matthew, Cormac McCarthy, Herman Melville, A. A. Milne, Michel de Montaigne, Moses

Vladimir Nabokov, Nael, Shi Nai’an, Pablo Neruda

Donn Pearce, Samuel Pepys, Plato, Edgar Allan Poe, Ezra Pound, Thomas Pynchon

François Rabelais, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Samuel Richardson, J. K. Rowling

J. D. Salinger, Dorothy L. Sayers, William Shakespeare, Georges Simenon, Edmund Spenser, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Theodore Sturgeon, Snorri Sturluson

James Tiptree Jr., J. R. R. Tolkien, Lao Tzu

Jules Verne

Virginia Woolf, Ernest Vincent Wright

Richard Yates, W. B. Yeats

Questions 1-8: “Titular”


1 ———> F O T C N

7 ———> P O W

9 ———> S (F E W L A S)

11 ———> K O L

13 ———> W O L A A B

20 ———> L P A A S O D

900 ———> G

20,000 ———> L U T S

Questions 9-14: “Start here?”


3 ———> F (C, L, A) [*]

5 ———> R of H (S, L, A, P, C) [*]

7 ———> S (D of A and P) [*]

9 ———> M (C, C, E, E, M, P, T, T, U) [*]

12 ———> L of H [*]

5040 ———> I P of a C (in P L)

Questions 15-20: “A is for — ?”


6 ———> A of N W H W T T

26 ———> A of A T Y M (T A O A B T)

27 ———> A of Y A T E of N L H

44 ———> A of L B in the S H of T T L

48 ———> A of K in K L

524 ———> A at which G B P

Questions 21-34: “A Potpourri of Pairs”


64 ———> H in the I C [*]
81 ———> C in the T T C

84 ———> D W A F (T O M A T S)
153 ———> F C by S P

110 ———> A P (P W)
221 ———> B B S (S H)

47 ———>I on the B in M L
640 ———> B in a H in the L of B

1000 ———> S L by the F of H of T (in M)
1186 ———> S L by the F of H of T (in H)

5 ———> L in a L [*]
14,233 ———> L in the D C

34 ———> E D P N in T C O M C
24601 ———> J V P N in L M

Questions 35-40: “Zero At The Bone”


00000 ———> S N of the R in G R

0 ———> S-C in B M

0 ———> C D T H R / L T T A I B

0 ———> E in G

0 ———> O F M B

0 / 31 ———> N P for R F

Questions 41-46: “The A. V. (and earlier)”


27 ———> B in the N T [*]

30 ———> P of S for J I

42 ———> L in a C in a G B [*]

176 ———> V in the L P

700 ———> W of S

450,000 ———> V of N A in C C

Questions 47-50: “T is for — ?”


7 ———> S in T O A W I (L, S, S J, S, M, T, P)

30 ———> P in T C T (I C)

100 ———> T in the D

156 ———> H C A F T

Questions 51-57: “Gustatory”


5 ———> R W M D

9 ———> B R on the L I of I

50 ———> E E by C H L

813.54 ———> D D C of T V H C

1450 ———> A I T H S F T ?

1823 ———> J F C F the B A C C

10,000 ———> C (in F) of B F

Questions 58-64: “G is for — ?”


2 ———> J B N with G in the T

26¼ ———> V (in C F) of K C in T G B

960 ———> V (in C) of the G D in M D

1566 ———> F E T of T G A

1904 ———> P of T G B

1983 ———> N P for W G

60,000 ———> S P (I of G) for F for the S

Questions 65-69: “Excessive”


2 ———> H on a P-P

3 ———> B on E G (T H-H G T T G)

6 ———> F on H L L H

8 ———> L on S (the H of W)

100 ———> T of the B B (T F Q)

Questions 70-74: “Y is for — ?”


9 5/12 ———> Y C by S P D

20 ———> Y S by R V W

70 ———> Y I S A Q / A A O D

100 ———> Y O S

10,000 ———> L-Y F H

Questions 75-88: “Potpourri 2: Electric Boogaloo”


45 ———> E P U C
46 ———> C in O F

26 ———> H of P in I (T D)
60 ———> H of L in I

20½ ———> N with J A and S M
75 ———> N with J M

3 ———> L of R
90 ———> P of E is R (S L)

54 ———> R for A M in the C M in T P P
500 ———> S of P in a R [*]

24 ———> L in the G A [*]
537 ———> L in C

1.87 ———> S M (T G O T M)
10,000,000,000,000,185.15 ———> M P for S T (T M I A H M)

Questions 89-91: “Check ’Em”


111 ———> B B B (T F O T R)

666 ———> N of the B in the B of R

999 ———> L S B B M

Questions 92-100: “Miscellaneous”


3 ———> W G by the M P

9¾ ———> H E P

15 ———> M O T D M C

42 ———> B A C P (T H O T S)

63 or 64 ———> T at G L in the H A W

108 ———> O of the M (W M)

1132 ———> M B P (F W)

10,191 ———> A G (D)

700,000,000,000 ———> W (in T) of the S on S

[8] 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, Verne
[35] Serial number of the rocket in Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon
[41] Books in the New Testament
[73] 100 Years of Solitude, Garcia Marquez
[90] Number of the Beast in the Book of Revelations
[93] Harry effing Potter? (JKR)

Will take some time getting used to this type of quiz. Nice to see you back.

>>24829125
* actually, Hogwarts express platform or s/t on the last one I realize lol

>>24829125
And
[2] Seven Pillars of Wisdom, TE Lawrence
[15] Age of Nael when he wrote The Tiger

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
34: Edmond Dantes' prisoner number in the Count of Monte Cristo
24601: Jean Valjean's prisoner number in Les Mis
10,000 Light Years From Home? (I haven't heard of this as a title, but the letters feel right.)

I am honored to see you again! I only wish I had a better set of responses.

>>24829049
14233 lines in the Divine Comedy?

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>>24829125
Six out of six here by the looks of things. /lit/ hits the ground running!


>[8] 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, Verne
Right, Jules Verne. Keeping track of which authors have been used will be very important for the harder entries I think.

>[35] Serial number of the rocket in Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon
Correct.

>[41] Books in the New Testament
One of the ones with "no single fixed author". There are eleven of those I think. The sooner they're all out the way the better!

>[73] 100 Years of Solitude, Garcia Marquez.
A "title" entry that's leaked out of its containment question.

>[90] Number of the Beast in the Book of Revelations
The author for this one counts as John the Divine. (Some bible authors are debatable but I've gone for a single specific author wherever possible.)

>[93] Harry effing Potter? (JKR)
Hahahahahahaha. Sort of.

>>24829134
>actually, Hogwarts express platform or s/t
“Hogwarts express platform” was what I had in mind, but your first guess has a robust charm all of its own.


>Will take some time getting used to this type of quiz.
Well I can't imagine I shall do any others like this. Just a one-off.

>Nice
Not sure how back I am. Might be an intermittent sort of backness.

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>>24829164
I suppose I could have grouped this with the other answer but there's no need to be stingy at the start when we have plenty of cute anime girls left.

>[2] Seven Pillars of Wisdom, TE Lawrence
Right.

>[15] Age of Nael when he wrote The Tiger
Of course. Nael must be pretty old now. I wonder if he's an alcoholic or something from the pressure of peaking at such an early age?

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>>24829175
All good here:

>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey.

>34: Edmond Dantes' prisoner number in the Count of Monte Cristo
>24601: Jean Valjean's prisoner number in Les Mis
Alexandre Dumas & Victor Hugo respectively. The idea with the pairs is of course that an easier one will offer a bit of help for its trickier companion. Not sure how well that will work out. Given how unpredictable life is, people will probably get the "harder" one first.

>10,000 Light Years From Home? (I haven't heard of this as a title, but the letters feel right.)
Correct. It's a collection of science fiction short stories, the first book published by James Tiptree Jr.

>39 D in a P
Looks bigger than a pond to me. Maybe it's an American pond. Everything is smaller in England :(

>I only wish
Well I thought 34, 24601, 10,000 might prove mildly tricky. That showed me.

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>>24829213
>14233 lines in the Divine Comedy?
Correct. 100 cantos with about 140 lines in each. (The canto lengths seem to vary around that total pretty randomly, which is a bit peculiar, given how autistic Dante is about structure in general. Maybe there's some subtle pattern we don't know about.)

>>24829175
Okay, a few more came to me on a re-read:

30 Pieces of Silver for Judas Iscariot
1000 Ships Launched by the Face of Helen of Troy (in Marlow)
1186 according to Homer's catalog of ships
111: Bilbo Baggins' Birthday (The Fellowship of the Ring)

Also checking >>24829077. Impressive.

>>24829241
Valjean made a big deal of his number, and it's long enough to be distinctive. I forgot that Dantes was also numbered, but the pairing (along with the recognizable title abbreviation) helped me there. Similarly, I only stumbled upon 10,000 Light Years due to the bonus pairing with 100 Years.

On the other hand, I see Herman Melville now that I read the author list and am stumped. Ishmael's 777th lay is notably absent. 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?

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>>24829044
3 fates (clotho, lachesis, atropos)
5 rivers of hades (styx, lethe, acheron, phlegethon, cocytos)
7 sages? (P=protagoras?)
9 muses (clio, calliope, erato, euterpe, melpomene, terpsichore, thaleia, urania)
12 labours of herakles
5040 - ideal population of a city (plato's laws)

>>24829213
and 5 lines in a limerick, methinks

[21] Hexagrams, is it, in the I Ching, and chapters in the Tao Te Ching ("by some laousy Chinaman").

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>>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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>>24829320
Our Hellenophile joins the party. 5/6 here:—

>3 fates (clotho, lachesis, atropos)
Right. C spins the thread of life, L measures it, A wields the scissors.

>5 rivers of hades (styx, lethe, acheron, phlegethon, cocytos)
Right. Dante had four of them but put Lethe at the top of Mount Purgatory, weirdly.

>7 sages? (P=protagoras?)
Not what I intended. I'm worrying about plausible alternative answers of course but I think the intended answer fits this one better.

>9 muses (clio, calliope, erato, euterpe, melpomene, terpsichore, thaleia, urania)
Right.

>12 labours of herakles
Right.

>5040 - ideal population of a city (plato's laws)
Right. This was supposed to be the tricky one. 5040 has lots of factors so obviously you have to have this many people. Plato was a fine fellow but he was completely bonkers.


Well this has got another good chunk of "no author" entries out the way. Just the 7 S (D of A and P) to get.

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>>24829329
>and 5 lines in a limerick, methinks
Correct. (Well I suppose this one might be technically ambiguous since there is probably some weird Arabic 5-line verse form beginning with L or something, but "limerick" is the obvious answer.)

>>24829042
>1 ———> F O T C N
Fall of the City of Nineveh. Not sure about this.

>9 ———> S (F E W L A S)
Stories (For Esmé - with Love and Squalor) by J. D. Salinger.

>11 ———> K O L
The Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates

>13 ———> W O L A A B
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens

>20 ———> L P A A S O D
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

>900 ———> G
The 900 Theses. Or maybe The 900 Days by Harrison Salisbury

>>24829044
>7 ———> S (D of A and P) [*]
Seven Days (Days of Adam and Paradise). Thinking it's something to do with the days of the creation story.

>524 ———> A at which G B P
524: Year at which Greek Boethius Perished.

>64 ———> H in the I C [*]
64 Hexagrams in the I Ching

>81 ———> C in the T T C
81 Chapters in the Tao Te Ching

>84 ———> D W A F (T O M A T S)
84 Days Without a Fish (The Old Man and the Sea) by Ernest Hemingway

>153 ———> F C by S P
153 Fish Caught by Saint Peter

>221 ———> B B S (S H)
221B Baker Street (Sherlock Holmes) by Arthur Conan Doyle (another one of my favourite authors).

>640 ———> B in a H in the L of B
640 Books in a Hexagon in the Library of Babel by J. L. Borges

>1000 ———> S L by the F of H of T (in M)
1000 Ships Lauched by the Face of Helen of Troy (in Marlowe)

>1186 ———> S L by the F of H of T (in H)
1186 Ships Lauched by the Face of Helen in Troy (in Homer)

>>24829081
>3 ———> W G by the M P
Three Witches Gathering by the Meeting Place (from Shakespeare's Macbeth)

>9¾ ———> H E P
9¾: Hogwarts Express Platform (from the Harry Potter series)

>15 ———> M O T D M C
15 Men on the Dead Man's Chest by Robert Louis Stevenson

>108 ———> O of the M (W M)
108 Outlaws of the Marsh (Water Margin) by Shi Nai'an

>10,191 ———> A G (D)
10,191 - A. G. (After Guild, which is the dating system in Dune, by Frank Herbert)

>700,000,000,000 ———> W (in T) of the S on S
700 billion Words in total on the stories of sand? 700 billion words in total of the stories on starship. 700 billion whirls in total of the stars on sky? 700 billion words in total of the stories on Sumerian scrolls? this is like a library of babel scale exaggeration i think.

i'm done for now.

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>>24829340

>[21] Hexagrams, is it, in the I Ching
Right. No single known author. It just sort of bubbled up from the Chinese national consciousness, or something.

>and chapters in the Tao Te Ching ("by some laousy Chinaman").
Also correct. (Lao Tzu, if anyone is wondering. There are lots of different ways of spelling his name, but anyway, that's the one to cross off the Author List.)

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>>24829418
A mixed bag here:

>1 ———> F O T C N
>Fall of the City of Nineveh. Not sure about this.
Duck Man already got this one: it's "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey.

>9 ———> S (F E W L A S)
>Stories (For Esmé - with Love and Squalor) by J. D. Salinger.
Right.

>11 ———> K O L
>The Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
Right.

>13 ———> W O L A A B
>Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens
Right. The first title that's an individual piece not a book, so a bit trickier.

>20 ———> L P A A S O D
>Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Right. Pablo Neruda.

>900 ———> G
>The 900 Theses.
Nope. No Mirandola in the Author List, and it would be "900 T".
>Or maybe The 900 Days by Harrison Salisbury
No Harrison Salisbury either. (And it would be 900 D.)

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>>24829446

>7 ———> S (D of A and P) [*]
>Seven Days (Days of Adam and Paradise). Thinking it's something to do with the days of the creation story.
Nope. The questions are grouped into definite categories.

>524 ———> A at which G B P
>524: Year at which Greek Boethius Perished.
Errr, no. There's no Boethius in the author list.

>64 ———> H in the I C [*]
>64 Hexagrams in the I Ching
>81 ———> C in the T T C
>81 Chapters in the Tao Te Ching
These two are good, but someone else already got there.

>84 ———> D W A F (T O M A T S)
>84 Days Without a Fish (The Old Man and the Sea) by Ernest Hemingway
Right

>153 ———> F C by S P
>153 Fish Caught by Saint Peter
Well "Simon Peter" was what I had in mind, since he wasn't a saint at that point, but I guess either answer is possible.

>221 ———> B B S (S H)
>221B Baker Street (Sherlock Holmes) by Arthur Conan Doyle (another one of my favourite authors).
Correct.

>640 ———> B in a H in the L of B
>640 Books in a Hexagon in the Library of Babel by J. L. Borges
Correct. 32 books on each of 5 shelves on each of 4 walls. This was one of the very tricky ones I thought.

>1000 ———> S L by the F of H of T (in M)
>1000 Ships Lauched by the Face of Helen of Troy (in Marlowe)
>1186 ———> S L by the F of H of T (in H)
>1186 Ships Lauched by the Face of Helen in Troy (in Homer)
Right, although you're not the first.

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>>24829461

>3 ———> W G by the M P
>Three Witches Gathering by the Meeting Place (from Shakespeare's Macbeth)
Hmm . . . OK I suppose this sort of fits, with a stretch. Shakespeare is indeed in the Author List. It isn't what I intended, though. I think it's fair to say this is wrong, because when the whole quiz gets done, there will be something else that's hard to answer without Shakespeare, and another author who I'm pretty sure won't go anywhere else except in this slot.

>9¾ ———> H E P
>9¾: Hogwarts Express Platform (from the Harry Potter series)
Correct, although you're not the first. Also "Harry Effing Potter" is considered acceptable by precedent.

>15 ———> M O T D M C
>15 Men on the Dead Man's Chest by Robert Louis Stevenson
Right. Often misquoted as "Fifteen men on *a* dead man's chest." But "The Dead Man's Chest" was the name of an island, in fact.

>108 ———> O of the M (W M)
>108 Outlaws of the Marsh (Water Margin) by Shi Nai'an
Right.

>10,191 ———> A G (D)
>10,191 - A. G. (After Guild, which is the dating system in Dune, by Frank Herbert)
Also right.

>700,000,000,000 ———> W (in T) of the S on S
>700 billion Words in total on the stories of sand? 700 billion words in total of the stories on starship. 700 billion whirls in total of the stars on sky? 700 billion words in total of the stories on Sumerian scrolls? this is like a library of babel scale exaggeration i think.
None of these.

>i'm done for now.
Very impressive haul, knocking off several I thought would put up stiff resistance. If you got all these cold, good going. (If you enlisted the help of some sort of cunning AI thingie, fair enough I suppose, although in general I would prefer if people spoilered those answers, at least early on in the quiz.)

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>>24829403
>Right. This was supposed to be the tricky one. 5040 has lots of factors so obviously you have to have this many people. Plato was a fine fellow but he was completely bonkers.
It happens to equal the sum of the radii of the earth (3960 miles) and the moon (1080 miles). John Michell connects it to the measurements given for the New Jerusalem in his book City Of Revelation.

wow this is much harder than the quotation quizzes for me. I think my brain just isn’t suited to these kinds of puzzles.

most of the ones I found are repeats but here’s one
[7] Nine Hundred Grandmothers - Lafferty

>>24829051
Shot in the dark here - 36 is 0 Semi-Colons in Blood Meridian? I think I've seen people point this out (at McCarthy's expense, usually)

>>24829057
T is for Tales!

[47] 7 Stories? Songs? Sections? in the Tales of a Wayside Inn (Landlord, Student, Spanish Jew, Sicilian, Musician, Theologian, Poet)

[48] 30 Pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales (no clue on IC)

[49] 100 Tales in the Decameron

[50] 156 Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales

>>24829601
Haha yes but Plato didn't know about miles did he? They measured in stadia or something?

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>>24829710
>wow this is much harder than the quotation quizzes for me. I think my brain just isn’t suited to these kinds of puzzles.
They are a bit like crosswords — easier when you have done lots of them.

Many of these are more-or-less impossible to do "cold", I would say, but they become possible in context, i.e. once you get another one nearby that tells you the general theme. Also reverse engineering might be the way to go (look for authors you know and then look to see what entries might fit them).

>[7] Nine Hundred Grandmothers - Lafferty
Correct. Definitely one of the trickier titles since a) it's a short story not a book and b) it's just one word.

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>>24829721
>Shot in the dark here - 36 is 0 Semi-Colons in Blood Meridian?
Pretty good shot. It's correct. I could have chosen any one of several books (he used forty-something semicolons in The Orchard Keeper and practically none at all thereafter, IIRC).

>I think I've seen people point this out (at McCarthy's expense, usually)
I don't know if anyone really criticizes him for it. It definitely works for him.

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>>24829729

>T is for Tales!
It is!

>[47] 7 Stories? Songs? Sections? in the Tales of a Wayside Inn (Landlord, Student, Spanish Jew, Sicilian, Musician, Theologian, Poet)
H. W. Longfellow. I had "storytellers" in mind but some of these are a bit fuzzy around the edges, I have to admit.

>[48] 30 Pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales
Correct . . .
>(no clue on IC)
. . . suppose I said that the "I" was meant to be "including"?

>[49] 100 Tales in the Decameron
Right. Boccaccio.

>[50] 156 Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
Right. I've tried not to make any author initials too obvious but there are a few tucked away here and there.

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>>24829053
>176 Verses in the Longest Psalm (119)
>700 Wives of Solomon

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>>24829789

>176 Verses in the Longest Psalm (119)
Correct. King David being the author of course.

>700 Wives of Solomon
Also correct. Mentioned in 1 Kings, which is most commonly thought to have been written by Jeremiah. Not exactly a sure thing but I'm going for specific authors wherever possible.

>>24829751
you're right, after sitting down at my computer and mulling over these a bit longer they're quite fun- even more enjoyable than your usual quizzes maybe. The categories help quite a bit.

>>24829761
must be (Including Chaucer)!

[76] 46 Cantos in Orlando Furioso (Ariosto)
not sure what the pair is yet

>>24829042
20000 leagues under the sea

>>24829051
00000 is gravity's rainbow

[53] 50 Eggs Eaten by Cool Hand Luke (Donn Pearce)

[54] 813.54 - Dewey Decimal Code of The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle)

[77] 26 - Height of Protagonist in Inches (The Dwarf) (Pär Lagerkvist)

[78] 60 - Height of Leopold Bloom(?) in Inches (James Joyce)

[85] 24 Letters in the Greek Alphabet

[86] 537 Letters in Clarissa (Samuel Richardson)

this last one I'm unsure of, really clever if it is-
[75] 45 - Ezra Pound's Usura Canto?

I think that's all for me tonight, I didn't mention it before but it's nice to have you back quizanon! This one must have been a lot of work.

>>24829042
20000 Leagues Under the Sea but I'm sure this was guessed way before I got here
>>24829044
7 Sins?
>>24829051
0 scalps collected in Blood Meridian
>>24829053
27 Books in the New Testament
>>24829057
This might actually be the 7 Deadly Sins
>>24829073
3 Lords of Rings
>>24829077
666 Number of the Beast
>>24829081
42 shot in the dark but Hitchhikers series by Douglas Adams

>>24829046
from the previous guy's answer I suppose A is for Age. I could only figure out
27 --> Age of Yozo At The End of No Longer Human.

>>24829067
100 ---> Tongues of the Blatant Beast (The Faerie Queene)

>>24829073
this is so obscure that I'd be surprised if it's the right answer but "T P P" made me think of The Pickwick Papers and i found this and it fits so: 54 --> Runs for All-Muggleton in the Cricket Match in The Pickwick Papers.

>>24829081
63 or 64 --> Trees at Galleon's Lap in the Hundred Acre Wood

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>>24830183

>must be (Including Chaucer)!
Correct. I did consider “I C H" ("including Chaucer himself”). Not sure if that would have made it easier or more difficult.

>[76] 46 Cantos in Orlando Furioso (Ariosto)
Correct.
>not sure what the pair is yet
#75 is one of the trickier ones, in my opinion (although I have been wrong almost every time so far about the relative difficulties).

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>>24830239
>20000 leagues under the sea
Correct (although you’re not the first). Jules Verne.

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>>24830240
>00000 is gravity's rainbow
Correct. "Serial Number of the Rocket in Gravity’s Rainbow", to be precise. Others already got there but that's OK, there are plenty of cute anime girls to go round.

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>>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.

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>>24830291

>20000 Leagues Under the Sea but I'm sure this was guessed way before I got here
It was, but it's still correct.

>7 Sins?
Nope. This is the last remaining one unanswered from that group.

>0 scalps collected in Blood Meridian
It is Blood Meridian but it isn't "scalps collected". There are loads of scalps collected in BM; that's about all everyone is doing. This one has already been found: it's "0 Semi-Colons in Blood Meridian".

>27 Books in the New Testament
Correct (although someone else found it before).

>This might actually be the 7 Deadly Sins
Nope. This one has been found; it's "7 Storytellers in Tales From A Wayside Inn" (by H. W. Longfellow).

>3 Lords of Rings
Nope. Tolkien has already been found; he's "111 = Bilbo Baggins’ Birthday in The Fellowship Of The Ring". (No author is repeated.)

This one is pretty hard I think because it's so nondescript. Also the low numbers are hard because lots of things use low numbers. There are millions of "three of something".

>666 Number of the Beast
Correct (although you're not the first). "Number of the Beast in the Book of Revelation".

>42 shot in the dark but Hitchhikers series by Douglas Adams
Nope. That's the obvious 42, but not correct. DA hasn't been found yet.

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>>24830429
4/4 here:—

>from the previous guy's answer I suppose A is for Age. I could only figure out
>27 --> Age of Yozo At The End of No Longer Human.
Right. Osamu Dazai. “27 but he looks more like 40” (or so he thinks).

>100 ---> Tongues of the Blatant Beast (The Faerie Queene)
Edmund Spenser. The first one answered in this group.

>this is so obscure that I'd be surprised if it's the right answer but "T P P" made me think of The Pickwick Papers and i found this and it fits so: 54 --> Runs for All-Muggleton in the Cricket Match in The Pickwick Papers.
I guess it's quite obscure these days. I expected people to get the other one of this pair first.

>63 or 64 --> Trees at Galleon's Lap in the Hundred Acre Wood
Right, A. A. Milne, The House At Pooh Corner. "An enchanted place because you could never be sure whether there were 63 or 64 trees there even if you tied a piece of string round each one after you counted it."

>0 ———> E in G
Zero E's in Georges.
Perec's La Disparition that is.
No, I know; it's not it.
But here's a bump.

some partial answers

[88] 10,000,000,000,000,185.15 -> this is “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” (Robert A. Heinlein), perhaps “Money Paid” or “Mike’s Prank” but I’m not sure which S T it’s for.

[98] 1132 -> is likely Finnegans Wake, I haven’t read it so hopefully someone else can tell me what M B P is.

This is a rather oblique connection to the Pickwick “Papers”, but I believe there are [84] 500 Sheets of Paper in a Ream.

trying to puzzle out what G stands for. God? Great? Games? also I’m sure there’s some reference to the Solaris I’m missing.

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>>24831317
>0 ———> E in G
>Zero E's in Georges.
>Perec's La Disparition that is.
>No, I know; it's not it.
No Perec in the author list, but a interesting line of thought nonetheless . . .

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>>24831406

>[88] 10,000,000,000,000,185.15 -> this is “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” (Robert A. Heinlein)
It is.
>perhaps “Money Paid” or “Mike’s Prank” but I’m not sure which S T it’s for.
You're pretty much there. Let's see if someone can fill in the details.

>[98] 1132 -> is likely Finnegans Wake,
It's certainly possible; JJ is in the author list and not yet claimed.
>I haven’t read it
No-one has read it.
>so hopefully someone else can tell me what M B P is.
Maybe someone will put the ball in the net.

>[84] 500 Sheets of Paper in a Ream.
Correct. I expected this to be found first and provide the clue for #83, actually..
>This is a rather oblique connection to the Pickwick “Papers”
Well 85-86 are worse since they use "letters" with two different meanings, but they got found. I regret nothing.

>trying to puzzle out what G stands for. God? Great? Games?
The ‘G’ section is the last remaining with no answers isn’t it? Not surprising. Two or three are very tricky and none is what I would call ‘common knowledge’. Still, some are reasonably attackable.

>also I’m sure there’s some reference to the Solaris I’m missing.
Well SL did write other things, but Solaris is his most famous for sure.

>>24829081
>42 ———> B A C P (T H O T S)
42 boxes all carefully packed The Hunting of the Snark

>>24829073
>3 ———> L of R
3 Laws of Robotic by Asimov

>>24829065
>2 ———> J B N with G in the T
2 James Bond novels with Gold in the Title

>>24829065
>1983 ———> N P for W G
1983: No Problems for Winston's Guilt
Because his problems start in 1984

>>24829065
so it's gold! that makes some of these pretty easy

[61] 1566 First English translation of The Golden Ass (Apuleius)

[62] 1904 Publication of The Golden Bowl (Henry James)

[63] 1983 Nobel Prize for William Golding

[64] 60,000 - Silver Paid (Instead of Gold) for Ferdowsi for the Shahnameh

[92] 3 Wishes Granted by the Monkey's Paw (WW Jacobs)

>>24831632
probably “Silver Pieces” instead of “Silver Paid”

>110 ———> A P (P W)
110A Piccadilly (Peter Wimsey), by Dorothy L. Sayers

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>>24831595

>42 ———> B A C P (T H O T S)
>42 boxes all carefully packed The Hunting of the Snark
Correct. Lewis Carroll:

He had forty-two boxes all carefully packed
With his name printed clearly on each:
But as he omitted to mention the fact
They were all left behind on the beach.

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>>24831598
>3 ———> L of R
>3 Laws of Robotic by Asimov
Right. So now the next one gets a bit easier . . . maybe.

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>>24831607
>2 ———> J B N with G in the T
>2 James Bond novels with Gold in the Title
Correct. Goldfinger & The Man With The Golden Gun. Finally a crack in the ‘G’ wall.

>>24831625
>1983 ———> N P for W G
>1983: No Problems for Winston's Guilt
>Because his problems start in 1984
Haha, he was still pretty miserable in 1983 I think. The post just above this one shows what the ‘G’ is likely to be.

>>24831544
thanks for the hint-
[38] 0 Es in Gadsby (Ernest Vincent Wright)

[70] 9 5/12 Years covered(?) by Samuel Pepys’ Diary

[26] is probably from the Autobiography of Alice B Toklas by Getrude Stein but I'm not sure of the specifics

[66] is of course The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, perhaps someone else can fill that out I haven't read it

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>>24831632
>so it's gold! that makes some of these pretty easy
When the overall theme emerges, resistances does tend to crumble a bit . . .

>[61] 1566 First English translation of The Golden Ass (Apuleius)
>[62] 1904 Publication of The Golden Bowl (Henry James)
>[63] 1983 Nobel Prize for William Golding
All good.

>[64] 60,000 - Silver Paid (Instead of Gold) for Ferdowsi for the Shahnameh
>>24831637
>probably “Silver Pieces” instead of “Silver Paid”
Yes, "Silver Pieces" was what I had in mind. Apparently the king of Persia or whatever it was called then promised Ferdowsi a gold piece for every couplet of the poem. He worked on it for years and then it was 60,000 couplets, so he expected 60,000 gold pieces. The king sent a guy off with the money, but the guy took the gold for himself and substituted silver. F. was so insulted to receive only silver that he gave the entire lot away to the nearest beggar or something. The king found out what had happened, (years later may6be?) and tried to give him the gold, but he died just before it arrived.

Maybe it's a well-known story in Iran but I only found out about it because J. L. Borges mentions it in a short story.


>[92] 3 Wishes Granted by the Monkey's Paw (WW Jacobs)
Right. Not impossibly tricky given the author list, maybe, since WWJ is only famous for this one thing.

The anon who suggested ‘3 Witches Gathering at the Meeting Place’ (Macbeth) will hopefully admit this fits it better.

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>>24831676
>110 ———> A P (P W)
>110A Piccadilly (Peter Wimsey), by Dorothy L. Sayers
Right, another detective address to go with Sherlock.

>>24829073
[87] 1.87$ saved money(?) (The Gift Of The Magi), O. Henry

>>24829062
[51] 5 Reasons That Men Drink (Henry Aldrich)

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>>24831784

>[38] 0 Es in Gadsby (Ernest Vincent Wright)
Right. Everyone thinks of ‘La Disparition’ as ‘the’ E-free novel but that's a bit unfair given this one came first.

>[70] 9 5/12 Years covered(?) by Samuel Pepys’ Diary
Correct. SP’s diary goes through all of 1660-68 and then just Jan-May of 1669.
Just the 20 & 70 in that section still to get. (I expect the 20 to go first.)

>[26] is probably from the Autobiography of Alice B Toklas by Getrude Stein
Reasonable conjecture . . .
>but I'm not sure of the specifics
We know what the ‘A’ means but it’s a fairly obscure quotation.

>[66] is of course The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, perhaps someone else can fill that out I haven't read it
That section is still mostly undone but #69 has been found which helps to identify what sort of excess we’re after.

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>>24831840

>[87] 1.87$ saved money(?) (The Gift Of The Magi), O. Henry
Pretty much. I meant it as "Stella’s Money”. (She has that much to buy her husband a Christmas present.) But it is indeed saved money so this is one of the most reasonable alternative answers.

Apparently people who visit O. Henry’s grave often leave $1.87. There’s some local charity that gets the money.


>[51] 5 Reasons That Men Drink (Henry Aldrich)
The food section is putting up decent resistance, but this is basically right. ‘Five reasons *why* men drink’ fits the letters I gave, but I have heard different versions of it.

If all be true that I do think
There are five reasons why men drink:
Good wine, good friends, or being dry,
Or fear of being so, by and by —
Or any other reason why.

>>24831891
>Just the 20 & 70 in that section still to get. (I expect the 20 to go first.)
20 years slept by rip van winkle

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>>24831961
>20 years slept by rip van winkle
Correct. Washington Irving.

>>24829073
>90 ———> P of E is R (S L)
This is paired with Asimov so I can only guess S L is Stanislaw Lem

>>24832000

>90 ———> P of E is R (S L)
>This is paired with Asimov so I can only guess S L is Stanislaw Lem
Nope.

Most of the pairings involve a shared word.

>>24832015
Oh. Going to guess based on the L being Law in bith
90 Pieces of Evidence is Required (State Law)

>>24829044
[11] 7 Sisters (Daughters of Atlas and Pleione)

>>24829053
[43] 42 Lines in a Column in a Gutenberg Bible
[46] 450,000 - Volume of Noah's Ark in Cubic Cubits(?) (Moses)

>>24830702
oh 60 inches is a lot shorter than I thought. got it:
[78] 60 Height of Lolita in Inches (Nabokov)

>>24832024
>Oh. Going to guess based on the L being Law in bith
Sensible assumption . . .

>90 Pieces of Evidence is Required (State Law)
. . . but you need something literary which applies to a specific author. (No [*] for this question.)

>>24832024
I am fairly sure R isn't Robotics
Mainly cause 90 P of E would be plural
But is followed by is singular
So grammatically that is fits passive voice of P of E is recommended or required
Leaving S L something Law

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>>24832026

>[11] 7 Sisters (Daughters of Atlas and Pleione)
Right. Hence the alternative name Pleiades. That’s the Greeks wrapped up.


>[43] 42 Lines in a Column in a Gutenberg Bible
Correct. They were sometimes known as "the 42-Column Bible", apparently.

>[46] 450,000 - Volume of Noah's Ark in Cubic Cubits(?)
Right. Just the dimensions are given (300 x 50 x 30) but we can multiply them up. A cubit was 18 inches apparently.
>(Moses)
Yeah, it's Genesis 6:15, so we take Moses as the author.

That’s the Bible complete too.

>>24832072
I saw Sturgeon
90 Percent of Everything is .... (Sturgeons Law)

I've always heard crap not R word though.
90 Percent of Everything is Retarded Sturgeons Law

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>>24832044

>[78] 60 Height of Lolita in Inches (Nabokov)
Bingo. It's explicitly given in H.H.'s verse:

Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze.
Her dream-gray gaze never flinches.
Ninety pounds is all she weighs
With a height of sixty inches.

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>>24832087
>90 Percent of Everything is Retarded Sturgeons Law
Pretty much. "90% Of Everything Is Rubbish" is the version I have heard most often.

Supposedly it came about because someone told him "90% of science fiction is rubbish" and he replied "Yes, but 90% of EVERYTHING is rubbish".

But maybe it was a stronger word. I don’t think it was recorded or anything, so it’s hard to know.

>>24829046
[18] 44 Age of Lily Briscoe in the Second Half of To The Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)

shot in the dark here, it fits the letters but I can't find any actual source for the number-
[91] 999 Lies Spun/Said By Baron Munchausen?

>>24829067
[67] 6 Fingers on Hannibal Lecter's Left Hand (Thomas Harris)

>>24829073
[79] 20½ Novels with Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin (Patrick O'Brian)

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>>24832151
1½ / 2 here:

>[18] 44 Age of Lily Briscoe in the Second Half of To The Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
Correct. “One can’t waste time at forty-four,” she thought.

>shot in the dark here, it fits the letters but I can't find any actual source for the number-
>[91] 999 Lies Spun/Said By Baron Munchausen?
Right ballpark, but not quite on target.

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>>24832193

>[67] 6 Fingers on Hannibal Lecter's Left Hand (Thomas Harris)
Correct.

>[79] 20½ Novels with Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin (Patrick O'Brian)
Right. (The 21st was incomplete when he died. Not sure exactly how close it was to 50% but never mind.)

How many left?

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>>24832917
Five partially solved (the work is known):

26 ———> A of A T Y M (T A O A B T)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Gertrude Stein)

3 ———> B on E G (T H-H G T T G)
The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)

10,000,000,000,000,185.15 ———> M P for S T (T M I A H M)
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Robert A. Heinlein)

999 ———> L S B B M
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Rudolf Erich Raspe)

1132 ———> M B P (F W)
Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)


Sixteen completely unsolved:

48 ———> A of K in K L
524 ———> A at which G B P

47 ———>I on the B in M L

0 ———> O F M B
0 / 31 ———> N P for R F

9 ———> B R on the L I of I
1450 ———> A I T H S F T ?
1823 ———> J F C F the B A C C
10,000 ———> C (in F) of B F

26¼ ———> V (in C F) of K C in T G B
960 ———> V (in C) of the G D in M D

2 ———> H on a P-P
8 ———> L on S (the H of W)

70 ———> Y I S A Q / A A O D

75 ———> N with J M

700,000,000,000 ———> W (in T) of the S on S

Authors left:
Rupert Brooke, James Hadley Chase, James Fenimore Cooper, Emily Dickinson, Isak Dinesen, Robert Frost, Stanislaw Lem, Hugh Lofting, Herman Melville, Michel de Montaigne, Edgar Allan Poe, François Rabelais, William Shakespeare, Georges Simenon, Snorri Sturluson, W. B. Yeats

>>24832990
>1823 ———> J F C
Initials match James Fenimore Cooper and that's the year he started writing his Natty Bumpo stories

>>24832990
>0 / 31 ———> N P for R F
0 out of 31 nature paths for Robert Frost who always takes the path not taken.

524 ———> A at which G B P
Age at which Gargantua begat Pantagruel (Rabelais)

>>24832990
>2 ———> H on a P-P
Two heads on a pushmi pullmi llama Dr Dolittle

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>>24833001
>1823 ———> J F C
>Initials match James Fenimore Cooper
True . . .
>and that's the year he started writing his Natty Bumpo stories
. . . but we need some connection to food & drink, given the theme of the section.

>>24833008
>0 / 31 ———> N P for R F
>0 out of 31 nature paths for Robert Frost who always takes the path not taken.
R F certainly suggests Robert Frost but the rest is a bit of a stretch.

>>24832990
>960 ———> V (in C) of the G D in M D
960 value of the gold doubloon I'm Moby Dick

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>>24833024

>524 ———> A at which G B P
>Age at which Gargantua begat Pantagruel (Rabelais)
Correct.


Gargantua at the age of four hundred fourscore forty and four years begat his son Pantagruel, upon his wife named Badebec, daughter to the king of the Amaurots in Utopia, who died in childbirth; for he was so wonderfully great and lumpish that he could not possibly come forth into the light of the world without thus suffocating his mother.

— Book II, Chapter 2


So it's 400 + 80 + 40 + 4, which is 524, not 484 as is often reported. I haven't checked the French original but I wouldn't be surprised if he deliberately phrased it like this (i.e. slightly misleadingly) as a joke.

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>>24833025

>2 ———> H on a P-P
>Two heads on a pushmi pullmi llama Dr Dolittle
Pushmi-Pullyu, yes. Hugh Lofting the author.

The "excessive" section is all things with more than the usual number of some body part.

>>24832990
>700,000,000,000 ———> W (in T) of the S on S
700 billion works in total of the scholars on Shakespeare
Lotta scholars wrote about Shakespeare
And I have no clue where else he could be

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>>24833043

>960 ———> V (in C) of the G D in M D
>960 value of the gold doubloon I'm Moby Dick
Almost there, but what's that “in C” all about?

>>24833054
Cigars!

>>24833050

>700,000,000,000 ———> W (in T) of the S on S
>700 billion works in total of the scholars on Shakespeare
>Lotta scholars wrote about Shakespeare
Reasonable point, but it would be a bit unfair because you could equally well say “800 billion” or any random large amount to express the general feeling. The specific numbers are all justified; they're never just arbitrary.

>And I have no clue where else he could be
He's hiding in a very nondescript entry.

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>>24833062
Of course.

“I see nothing here, but a round thing made of gold, and whoever raises a certain whale, this round thing belongs to him. So, what’s all this staring been about? It is worth sixteen dollars, that’s true; and at two cents the cigar, that’s nine hundred and sixty cigars. I won’t smoke dirty pipes like Stubb, but I like cigars, and here’s nine hundred and sixty of them; so here goes Flask aloft to spy ’em out.”

>>24832990
>75 ———> N with J M
75 novels with Jules Maigret

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>>24833101
>75 ———> N with J M
>75 novels with Jules Maigret
Right. Georges Simenon. Flexing on Patrick O’Brien’s mere 20½.

>>24832990
>26¼ ———> V (in C F) of K C in T G B
Value of Kidd's coins in The Golden Bug

>>24833136
>26¼ ———> V (in C F) of K C in T G B
>Value of Kidd's coins in The Golden Bug
Getting there, but still a bit of work to be done. The treasure in The Gold Bug is worth a lot more than 26¼, unless it’s 26¼ of some exotic extremely large unit of currency.

>>24833029
1823 - James Fenimore Cooper Founded the Bread And Cheese Club

>>24833032
0 / 31 - Nobel Prizes for Robert Frost

>>24829062
> 1450 ———> A I T H S F T ?
yet/Stands the Church clock at ten to three?/And is there honey still for tea?
from The Old Vicarage, Grantchester by Rupert Brooke

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>>24834131
>1823 - James Fenimore Cooper Founded the Bread And Cheese Club
Right. It was a literary club so I’m not sure what bread and cheese had to do with it but never mind, it goes in the food section anyway.

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>>24834136
>0 / 31 - Nobel Prizes for Robert Frost
Correct. 31 nominations, no wins. The most nominations (by far) of anyone who didn’t win.

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>>24834145
> 1450 ———> A I T H S F T ?
>yet/Stands the Church clock at ten to three?/And is there honey still for tea?
>from The Old Vicarage, Grantchester by Rupert Brooke
Correct. I thought this one might be the last found since it’s pretty sneaky.

>>24832990
>8 ———> L on S (the H of W)
8 legs on Sleipnir the History of Wotan

>>24832990
>0 ———> O F M B
0 Orchids for Miss Blandish

>>24832990
>700,000,000,000 ———> W (in T) of the S on S
I had a feeling with was Lem and Solaris
700 billion weight (in tons) of the species on Solaris
Or the Solaris on Solaris. The ocean creature kind of has the same name as the planet

>>24832990
>48 ———> A of K in K L
48 Age of King in King Lear
I highly doubt the age is right but it's the only thing I can think that matches KL

>>24832990
>10,000 ———> C (in F) of B F
10,000 cash (in Francs) of Babette's Feast is won in the lottery

>>24832990
>9 ———> B R on the L I of I
9 bean rolls on the Lake Isle of Innisfree

>>24829049
>221 ———> B B S (S H)
221B Baker Street (Sherlock Holmes)
>24601 ———> J V P N in L M
Jean Valjean's prisoner number in Les Miserables

>>24832990
>47 ———>I on the B in M L
Google is giving 46 and 48 but I'll take the chance
47 inscriptions on the beams in Michels library

>>24832990
>70 ———> Y I S A Q / A A O D
And through elimination this has to be something Emily Dickinson
The slash hints it is a poem and the only other it might be is the one I may be wrong about King Lear
But that is Age of someone in something and I don't think Emily Dickinson wrote named characters in named works

>>24834794
>>24832990
Oh wait I'm dumb
Age of Kent

>>24834851
Blake is also still unaccounted for
>>24834859
I had this thought as well but Kent seems like far too minor a character for him to be brought up… unless there’s some specific line referencing his age in the play I don’t recall

>>24834886
>Blake is also still unaccounted for
??
There's no Blake here >>24832990

>>24834967
I don’t see Blake in any of the previous answers in the thread, unless I missed something quizanon might have left him off by mistake

by my count the three unsolved ditloids are

>48 ———> A of K in K L
>0 ———> C D T H R / L T T A
>70 ———> Y I S A Q / A A O D

and the three remaining authors are Blake, Dickinson and Shakespeare.

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>>24835374
never mind, the other anon was right. just two left

>>24835374
>0 ———> C D T H R / L T T A
OP didn't include this in the final wrap up summary and didn't include Blake
So I will guess that this one is Blake

>>24835374
There's a couple of partially solved but incomplete ones

>>24835399
So 6 partials plus the last one being Emily Dickinson and maybe one other for Blake

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>>24829070
>70 ———> Y I S A Q / A A O D
Probably barking up the wrong tree, but this was the best lead I could find for Dickinson:
https://archive.emilydickinson.org/correspondence/higginson/jnp1256.html
“Three score and Ten” (a phrase from Psalm 90:10 of the KJB) = 70 years
Maybe something like “70 years is … queen / … democrat” ?
Eh, I think not.
Even sillier, “ you ” (with a leading and a terminating space) appears exactly 70 times in her body of work.

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>>24834754
3/4 here, which is unusual with only one answer:

>8 legs
Right

>on Sleipnir
Sounds good

>Wotan
Of course

>History
. . . What?

Sleipnir wasn’t Wotan’s history. He was his —


I guess 75% merits a cute anime girl but someone else can finish it off I'm sure. Snorri Sturluson the author, Prose Edda the work.

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>>24835505
horse!

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>>24834760
>0 ———> O F M B
>0 Orchids for Miss Blandish
Right. James Hadley Chase. Unpleasant book and not a very good one. Not even original either, haha. It was a rip-off of Faulkner (Sanctuary, which was itself just a pot-boiler). Pretty grubby all round, really. Never mind.

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>>24834782

>700,000,000,000 ———> W (in T) of the S on S
>I had a feeling with was Lem and Solaris
>700 billion weight (in tons) of the species on Solaris
>Or the Solaris on Solaris. The ocean creature kind of has the same name as the planet
Yes, it’s Solaris, so I can't in all fairness withhold the C.A.G, but I had something much simpler and easier in mind for the first ‘S’.

>species on Solaris
>Solaris on Solaris
You said it’s an "ocean creature" lol. So what is the ‘S’ going to be?

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>>24834794
>>24834859
>>24834886
>>24835376
RIght. “Age Of Kent in King Lear.” It has been suggested he is older than that, but who are you going to believe, the man himself or some critic?

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>>24834808
>10,000 ———> C (in F) of B F
>10,000 cash (in Francs) of Babette's Feast is won in the lottery
All of these are "near misses" or "incomplete hits". Maybe this one was too ambiguous. What I had in mind was

10,000 = Cost (In Francs) of Babette’s Feast.

Sort of changing the meaning of "Babette's Feast" from the title of the story to the actual feast itself.

It's quite a big thing in the story. At the end she says she spent all the money on the meal and when they can't believe it she says, "Dinner for twelve at the Café Anglais costs ten thousand francs."

>>24834827
>9 ———> B R on the L I of I
>9 bean rolls on the Lake Isle of Innisfree
Another "pretty much but not quite" answer.

Yes, it's W. B. Yeats. But "rolls"? What's a "bean roll"?

I think I'll withhold the girl on this one because it is a fairly well-known line.

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>>24834835

>221 ———> B B S (S H)
>221B Baker Street (Sherlock Holmes)

>24601 ———> J V P N in L M
>Jean Valjean's prisoner number in Les Miserables

Both correct. Other people sneakily got in there before you but that's not your fault.

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>>24834847

>47 ———>I on the B in M L
>Google is giving 46 and 48 but I'll take the chance
>47 inscriptions on the beams in Michels library
Correct, if by "Michel" you mean Montaigne.

His library was a big room with oak beams in the ceiling and he carved quotations he liked into the beams and there are 47 of them. It's a tourist attraction now.

This one pairs with the Library Of Babel in the Borges short story of course.

>>24834851

>70 ———> Y I S A Q / A A O D
>And through elimination this has to be something Emily Dickinson
It is but only because I messed up in the summary of unfinished ones, and left Blake off.

>The slash hints it is a poem and the only other it might be is the one I may be wrong about King Lear
>But that is Age of someone in something and I don't think Emily Dickinson wrote named characters in named works
Yeah this logic is all good. And you know the Y = ‘Year’. Only ten million poems to go through . . .

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>>24835097
I did leave Blake off the final roundup of unsolved answers, which sort of instantly identifies him, but never mind. Still a bit of work to be done.

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>>24835512
>horse!

>>24835519
>said it’s an "ocean creature" lol. So what is the ‘S’ going to be?
Sea?

>>24835535
Damn phone.
Bean rows

>>24835549
>70 ———> Y I S A Q / A A O D
finally finally found it:

Seventy Years is spent as quick
As an only Dollar—

from poem 1506, Dickinson
that just leaves Blake and the partially solved ones to go. I have a copy of Blake's complete works arriving tomorrow so perhaps I'll pour through it and get lucky then.

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>>24835595
>Sea
That's what I had in mind. They keep calling it the "Sea" in the translation I have but of course Lem might specifically say "ocean" in Polish so maybe this one was not entirely fair.

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>>24835598
>Bean rows
Right.

Nine bean rows will I have there and a hive for the honey bee
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

>>24835603
Ngl this feels like a really obscure quotation, it's not even included in my edition of her Selected Poems (Final Harvest). Quite a nice poem though.

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>>24835603
>Seventy Years is spent as quick
>As an only Dollar—

Right.

Summer is shorter than any one —
Life is shorter than Summer —
Seventy Years is spent as quick
As an only Dollar —

>Poem 1506
Yes, a late one. Maybe she felt the end approaching.


>that just leaves Blake and the partially solved ones to go.
The Blake is at least a rhymed couplet which might make it easier than E.D. . . . or maybe not.


I won't be online for a day or so now so might not be here when it all gets wrapped up.

>>24835616
Can you post all the incomplete ones together with the partial answers before you go?