Filmmaking is all in the editing, they say. Applying that principle to literature, here are two hundred opening sentences to identify, spliced together in pairs (the beginning of one and the end of another) to form one hundred brand new sentiments.

Sometimes an ‘opening sentence’ comes from a Preface / Introduction / etc, rather than Chapter 1. Novels, poetry, drama, short stories, and non-fiction are all represented. (Notice that the opening sentence in poetry often extends over more than one line.) [*] means one of the component halves is in translation; in one instance the translation used is the first into English, not now the most commonly accepted.

Hints on request.


Authors (first halves):

Edward Abbey, Douglas Adams, Richard Adams, Nelson Algren, Martin Amis, Sherwood Anderson, Matthew Arnold, John Ashbery, Isaac Asimov, Jane Austen

Clive Barker, J. M. Barrie, Samuel Beckett, John Berryman, William Blake, Richard Brautigan, Patrick O’Brian, Charlotte Bronte, Robert Browning, John Bunyan, Anthony Burgess, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lord Byron

Albert Camus, Truman Capote, Thomas Carlyle, Raymond Chandler, Jung Chang, Arthur C. Clarke, Flannery O’Connor

Richard Dawkins, Philip K. Dick, Emily Dickinson, Joan Didion, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexandre Dumas

T. S. Eliot, Bret Easton Ellis

William Faulkner, Carrie Fisher, E. M. Forster, Janet Frame

Edward Gibbon, Allen Ginsburg, Oliver Goldsmith, Günter Grass, Alasdair Gray

H. Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Heller, Ernest Hemingway

Christopher Isherwood

Shirley Jackson, James Joyce

Jack Kerouac, Rudyard Kipling

R. A. Lafferty, Pär Lagerkvist, Philip Larkin, D. H. Lawrence, Harper Lee, Thomas Ligotti, Clarice Lispector, H. P. Lovecraft

Walter De La Mare, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, Daphne du Maurier, Carson McCullers, Ian McEwan, Herman Melville, Henry Miller, Spike Milligan, A. A. Milne, Edwin Muir, Alice Munro, Iris Murdoch

V. S. Naipaul

Fernando Pessoa, Charles Portis, Beatrix Potter

Thomas De Quincey

Ayn Rand, Erich Maria Remarque, Samuel Richardson, Tom Robbins

Jack Schaefer, Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, P. B. Shelley, King Solomon, Stephen Spender

Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Kennedy Toole, Anne Tyler

Oscar Wilde, P. G. Wodehouse, Thomas Wolfe, William Wordsworth

W. B. Yeats

Authors (second halves):

Jack Abbott, Edwin Abbott, Conrad Aiken, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen

Julian Barnes, John Barth, Saul Bellow, Lucia Berlin, Ambrose Bierce, Roberto Bolaño, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, John Buchan, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robert Burns, A. S. Byatt

Italo Calvino, Orson Scott Card, Eric Carle, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Carver, Willa Cather, Miguel de Cervantes, John Cheever, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Joseph Conrad, Harry Crews, e. e. cummings

Samuel R. Delany, Charles Dickens, Isak Dinesen, Arthur Conan Doyle

George Eliot, James Ellroy, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ian Fleming

John Gardner, William H. Gass, William Gibson, Kenneth Grahame, Winston Groom

Joe Haldeman, L. P. Hartley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, George V. Higgins, Patricia Highsmith, Ted Hughes, Aldous Huxley

Henry James, Jerome K. Jerome

Franz Kafka, John Keats, Jean Kerr, Ken Kesey, Stephen King

C. S. Lewis, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Thomas Malory, David Markson, Cormac McCarthy

Vladimir Nabokov, Friedrich Nietzsche

Mervyn Peake, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, Manuel Puig, Thomas Pynchon

Wilson Rawls, Charles Reade, Anne Rice, Philip Roth, J. K. Rowling, Damon Runyon

J. D. Salinger, Anna Sewell, Alan Sillitoe, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stevens, William Styron, Patrick Suskind

Donna Tartt, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry David Thoreau, James Thurber, P. L. Travers, William Trevor, Mark Twain

John Updike

David Foster Wallace, Evelyn Waugh, H. G. Wells, E. B. White, John Williams

1)
I first met Dean in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.


2)
In the second century of the Christian Aera, the empire of Rome struggled against the darkness.


3)
All children, except one, are nauseating at three in the morning.


4)
Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.


5)
On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.

[*]


6)
In her tight-fitting Persian dress, with turban to match, she looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you.


7)
The music-room in the Governor’s House at Port Mahon, a tall, handsome, pillared octagon, was filled with heads and bodies.


8)
I am extremely concerned, my dearest friend, that this book should have an Introduction, because it doesn’t have an Index and it ought to have *something*.


9)
April is the cruellest and just about the prettiest girl in West Texas.


10)
I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life: according to my application of it, I trust that it will convey to you the sensations — the atmospheric pressure, you might say — of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

11)
There was no possibility of taking a walk — Ah, bitter chill it was!


12)
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem learned the knack of versifying, and ground out quires of couplets after the fashion of the day, afroth with Joves and Jupiters, aclang with jarring rhymes, and string-taut with similes stretched to the snapping-point.


13)
The Assyrian came down the stairs, and though they must all have known that he was dead drunk, and seen the danger he would soon be in, no one attempted to talk to him and lead him back to his seat.


14)
People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could show you eight silent ways to kill a man.


15)
At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages.

[*]


16)
Hail to thee, blithe beastie,
O! what a panic’s in thy breastie!


17)
‘He’s just a pore lonesome wife-left feller,’ said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.


18)
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me; but that ain’t no matter.


19)
Dora Greenfield left her husband because he was nineteen years old and studying German literature.

[*]


20)
The solution to my life occurred to me one evening while I was stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.

21)
So here I am, upside down in the Wakonda Auga River . . .


22)
In the town there were two mutes, and they were always scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.


23)
“Is there anybody there?” said the Traveler, rapping at my chamber door.


24)
On February 24, 1815, the lookout at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the arrival of a gentleman by the convenient name of Mr. A.

[*]


25)
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to understand the gravity of our situation.


26)
I am twenty-six inches tall, if you want to know the truth.

[*]


27)
Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into a large, proud, rose-colored hotel.


28)
I was born in a time when the majority of young people had lost faith in Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time.

[*]


29)
“The Signora had no business to do it,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.


30)
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.

31)
The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lennox he was in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.


32)
It was the pivotal teaching of Pluthero Quexos, the most celebrated dramatist of the Second Dominion, that in any fiction, no matter how ambitious its scope or profound its themes, there was only ever room for three destroyed by their own hands.


33)
Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching television, tuned to a dead channel.

[*]


34)
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, only thirty-four stories.

[*]


35)
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by reading Italo Calvino’s new novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler.

[*]


36)
ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering across the sky.


37)
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the city of Colchester, Helena, red-haired, youngest daughter of Coel, Paramount Chief of the Trinovantes, gazed into the rain while her tutor read the *Iliad* of Homer in a Latin paraphrase.


38)
Maybe I shouldn’t have given the guy who pumped my stomach my phone number, but I tell you he’s the one.


39)
When you have shot and killed a man you have to burn.


40)
A sombrero fell out of the sky and landed on the Statue of Liberty, so that he saw it in a new light, although he had sighted it long before.

[*]

41)
The grandmother didn’t want to go to bed early.

[*]


42)
He rode into our valley in a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing harness, driven by a fat coachman in a three-cornered hat and wig, at the rate of four miles an hour.


43)
Daddy’s typewriter was thick and black and covered with dust.

[*]


44)
The studio was filled with the rich odour of George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.


45)
Once a guy stood all day shaking the most disagreeable looking child ever seen.


46)
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, sometimes I left messages in the street.


47)
Life is hell, but at least there are girls in nothing but bathing suits.


48)
Last night I dreamt that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise.


49)
A green hunting cap was trying not to be blown away.


50)
Considering our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rushlights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction, so that not the smallest cranny or dog-hole in Nature or Art can remain unilluminated, — it might strike the reflective mind with some surprise that hitherto little or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the eye of the blackbird.

51)
If I were called in
To construct a religion
I should make use of chocolates.


52)
Dr. Sarvis with his bald mottled dome and savage visage, grim and noble as Sibelius, was out night-riding on a routine neighborhood beautification project, burning those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around its outer walls.


53)
I moved forward, out of the blackest sleep, to find myself surrounded by the ceremony known as afternoon tea.


54)
O Rose, thou art not a woman like all the others.

[*]


55)
It is a curious thing that at my age — fifty-five last birthday — I should find myself pretty well disgusted with life.


56)
The Elite Café is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

[*]


57)
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a huge family, did more service than he who continued single, and left his home and the lake of his home and went into the mountains.

[*]


58)
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that it was the black kitten’s fault entirely.


59)
A frightful hobgoblin had been working very hard all the morning, spring cleaning his little home.

[*]


60)
When Farmer Oak smiled, I had no idea what lay in store for me.

61)
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.


62)
I marmaladed a slice of toast with something of a flourish, thinking of Treblinka.


63)
In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.


64)
As I sit looking out of a window of the building
I wish I did not have to write great words, and suffer noble sorrows.


65)
His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.

[*]


66)
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; I once lied continuously, consistently, and shamelessly, for the matter of a couple of hours.


67)
“Courage!” he said, and pointed toward the top of the cliff.


68)
The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty in reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind.


69)
A snake came to my water-trough, so I had to move to Brooklyn.


70)
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

[*]

71)
That’s my last duchess painted on the wall,
Square as a chair and almost too heavy to lift.


72)
The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas; they do things differently there.


73)
My heart leaps up when I behold austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.


74)
The words of the Preacher tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm.

[*]


75)
Howard Roark pours Teacher’s over my belly and licks it off.


76)
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, at a time when Western civilization was declining too rapidly for comfort and yet too slowly to be very exciting, much of the world made Peter Mickelsson clench his square yellow teeth in anger and once, in a moment of rage and frustration greater than usual, bring down the heel of his fist on the heavy old Goodwill oak table where his typewriter, papers, and books were laid out, or rather strewn.


77)
He was an old man who fished alone in a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it.


78)
I am a rather officious little prick.


79)
He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the Policeman at the cross-roads.


80)
The primroses were frozen cold and hard as stones.

81)
It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest.

[*]


82)
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the autumnal city.


83)
Because I could not stop fingering the ragged end of a tie that might have already done a year’s service about his waist, Swann de Lisle uttered a convivial obscenity in the four hundred cubic feet of air they euphemistically called my office.


84)
The world is what it is — low-down gloomy music.


85)
You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of living by the labor of my hands only.


86)
The sea is calm tonight, as blue as the petals of the loveliest cornflower, and as clear as the purest glass; but it’s very deep, deeper than any anchor can reach.

[*]


87)
I get the willies when I see *the* woman.


88)
Stately, plump Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in the *Times*.


89)
Waking up begins with saying “I *drank* too much last night.”


90)
Filling her compact & delicious body
with chicken páprika, she glanced at me
and what was the secret of form or expression which gave the dynamic quality to her glance?

91)
I will arise and go now, and dump his body in the San Ysidro River.


92)
In a beautiful home in a beautiful part of town — the town of Nolgate, site of the state prison — Dr. Munck looked up from his scrambled eggs to see a white unicorn with a golden horn quietly cropping the roses in the garden.


93)
One day when Pooh Bear had nothing else to do, he thought he would get some guns.


94)
What makes Iago evil? said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room to the window.


95)
Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them playing boules beneath Flaubert’s statue.


96)
When shall we three take this trip to Africa?


97)
I think continually of a young guy by the name of The Lemon Drop Kid, who is called The Lemon Drop Kid because he always has a little sack of lemon drops in the side pocket of his coat, and is always munching at same, a lemon drop being a breed of candy that is relished by many, although personally I prefer peppermints.


98)
Several and a half metric miles North East of Sligo, an egg lay on a leaf.


99)
. . . a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.


100)
Barely a twelvemonth after
The seven days war that put the world to sleep,
I arise, I face the sunrise,
And do the things my fathers learned to do.

1. Kerouac, On the Road / …
4. Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit / …
9. Eliot, Waste Land / …
23. … / Poe, Raven
33. … / Gibson, Neuromancer
35. Ginsberg, Howl / Calvino, If on a…
36. Ellis, American Psycho (by way of Dante) / Pynchon, GR
41. … / Proust, Swann's Way
57. … / Nietzsche, Zarathustra
82. Beckett, Murphy / …
88. Joyce, Ulysses / Christie, 10 Little Niggers
95. … / Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot?

Hope you don't mind the half answers. And I gotta commend you for the splices themselves: quite a few make for a very striking result!

>>25626542
Conclusion of 4. is C.S. Lewis from either the second or the last Narnia book

>>25626542
Conclusion of 1., I believe, is Denison

>>25626542
Conclusion of 9. is.. Cormac?

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>>25626542
Great start here, 15/15:


>1. Kerouac, On the Road / …
I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.

>4. Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit / …
Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

>9. Eliot, Waste Land / …
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

>23. … / Poe, Raven
Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

>33. … / Gibson, Neuromancer
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

>35. Ginsberg, Howl / Calvino, If on a…
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked . . .
+
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino’s new novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler.

>36. Ellis, American Psycho (by way of Dante) / Pynchon, GR
ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First . . .
+
A screaming comes across the sky.

>41. … / Proust, Swann's Way
For a long time I used to go to bed early.

>57. … / Nietzsche, Zarathustra
When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home and went into the mountains.

>82. Beckett, Murphy / …
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

>88. Joyce, Ulysses / Christie, 10 Little Niggers
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
+
In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in the *Times*.

>95. … / Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
Six North Africans were playing boules beneath Flaubert’s statue.


I was a bit worried since technically there are two hundred answers this time, and I might not have two hundred cute anime girls. But at this rate we'll be done in half a dozen posts.

>>25626481
10. is Abbey/Cheever (Falconer?)

>>25626542
Opening of 95 is Faulkner’s TSATF
>>25626481
Are you like the most well read person in board history?

>>25626481
24. O'Brien/Kafka (?)

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>>25626512
80) /McCarthy’s The Passenger

Here's the full opening:
>It had snowed lightly in the night and her frozen hair was gold and crystalline and her eyes were frozen cold and hard as stones. One of her yellow boots had fallen off and stood in the snow beneath her. The shape of her coat lay dusted in the snow where she’d dropped it and she wore only a white dress and she hung among the bare gray poles of the winter trees with her head bowed and her hands turned slightly outward like those of certain ecumenical statues whose attitude asks that their history be considered. That the deep foundation of the world be considered where it has its being in the sorrow of her creatures.

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>>25626568
>Conclusion of 4. is C.S. Lewis from either the second or the last Narnia book
Pretty much. It's The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe:

Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.

Prince Caspian is very similar:

Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, and it has been told in another book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe how they had a remarkable adventure.

But that doesn’t actually end with "Lucy".

I would call Lion, Witch, Wardrobe the first book & Prince Caspian the second (publication order) but let's not get into that. The last book in either order is The Last Battle & that begins with him talking about the ape, not the children at all.

>>25626600
Right, the entrained children are mentioned at the conclusion.. as it were

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>>25626574
>Conclusion of 1., I believe, is Denison
Correct, allowing for a bit of spelling. Isak Dinesen, Out Of Africa:

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.

>>25626509
61) .../Nabokov's speak, memory

>>25626582
>Conclusion of 9. is.. Cormac?
Logical enough, but nope. It's a short story and definitely one of the hardest ones in the whole quiz.

>>25626605
Well? If you love Catcher in the Rye as a child you'll very quickly find yourself reading both Out of Africa and The Return of the Native. Been.. a little more than a little while

>>25626589
>10. is Abbey/Cheever (Falconer?)
Logical enough, but nope. Both halves of this are non-fiction.

>>25626608
Lucia Berlin, one of the stories in Manual?

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>>25626592
>Opening of 95 is Faulkner’s TSATF
Correct.

Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.

>>25626501
46) .../Markson's Wittgenstein's mistress
25) lovecraft shadow over innsmouth/...
63) .../gene wolfe's shadow of the torturer
81) Anthony Burgess' Earthly powers/...

>>25626594
>24. O'Brien/Kafka (?)
Two logical guesses, but neither right, sadly.

It's the first half that is in translation. The second half is non-fiction and pretty tricky.

these threads make me feel like an illiterate swine nigger. I don't know any of those. I console myself telling myself I'm just an ESL unfamiliar with anglo literature

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>>25626595
>80) /McCarthy’s The Passenger
Correct.

If you want some real feels, think about how, at the end of Stella Maris, she talks about borrowing clothes:

How are you doing?
I’m okay.
I havent seen that sweater before.
It’s a loaner.
You dont have a coat, do you?
I’m not going anywhere.
I could bring you one.
Okay. What about galoshes?

So the boots are surely borrowed and one fell off because it was too big for her. She's just a defenceless child.

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>>25626607
>61) .../Nabokov's speak, memory
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

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>>25626629
>these threads make me feel like an illiterate swine nigger. I don't know any of those.
The first half of #93 is still up for grabs. And the first half of #58 might ring a bell.

>I console myself telling myself I'm just an ESL unfamiliar with anglo literature
It's much MUCH harder if English is not your first language.

>>25626502
59 start is Marx & Engels, The Communist Manifesto. The first english translation by Rossetti

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>>25626615
>Lucia Berlin, one of the stories in Manual?
Bingo. Normally only a specific story name gets the girl, but given how tricky this is I think you're close enough. It's ‘Sex Appeal’:

Bella Lynn was my cousin, and just about the prettiest girl in West Texas.

>>25626657
I was surprised at how good a collection that was, and sad that /lit/ dismissed it back when it came out. Gave it to my ex as a holiday gift a few years back, kek. She loved it, of course

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>>25626624

2½ / 4 here I guess:

>46) .../Markson's Wittgenstein's mistress
Correct:

In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street.

>25) lovecraft shadow over innsmouth/...
It is Lovecraft but it's not Innsmouth, it's Cthulhu:

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

>63) .../gene wolfe's shadow of the torturer
No Gene Wolfe in the author list. Shadow Of The Torturer is pretty similar, it has to be said:

It is possible I already had some presentiment of my future. The locked and rusted gate that stood before us, with wisps of river fog threading its spikes like the mountain paths, remains in my mind now as the symbol of my exile.

>81) Anthony Burgess' Earthly powers/...
Right:

It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.

(One of those famous ones that lots of people know without reading the book. I tried to avoid those as much as possible but ya gotta have a few.)

>>25626498
31 start - The Long Goodbye, Chandler

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>>25626653
>59 start is Marx & Engels, The Communist Manifesto.
Correct:

A frightful hobgoblin stalks throughout Europe. We are haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Communism.

>The first english translation
Also correct.

>by Rossetti
Hmm, I thought it was a woman called Helen McFarlane (using a pseudonym).

>>25626669
46 begin is Bunyan, of course. I think my role in this puzzle, I mean 'quiz' (I'm better at puzzles) is to attempt to finish what others start..
Will return later this evening

>>25626665
>I was surprised at how good a collection that was
Yes, she's great.

>and sad that /lit/ dismissed it back when it came out.
I wasn't on the board then.

>Gave it to my ex as a holiday gift a few years back, kek. She loved it, of course
I hope you wrote "This is so good, you'd think it was written by a man!" on the flyleaf.

>>25626681
Lol
We have a child in common so I have to be nice

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>>25626678
>46 begin is Bunyan, of course.
Of course:

As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where there was a Den, and laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept I dreamed a Dream.

Used to be the second most popular book in the English-speaking world, after the Bible.

>>25626509
66 sounds a lot like Thomas Ligotti/... I'm not sure about the exact story, maybe the shadow at the bottom of the world?

11 Jane Eyre / .
16 . / Burns' Field Mouse
18 Tarzan / Huck Finn
22 . / War of The Worlds
24 .Notre-Dame / .
28 . / Le Morte d'Arthur
29 . / Little Women
39 . / Fahrenheit 451
42 . / Vanity Fair
45 Scanner Darkly / .
49 . / Confederacy of Dunces
58 P&P / Alice
63 . / Scarlet Letter
77 Old Man and The Sea / .
92 Songs of a Dead Dreamer The Frolic/ .
93 House at Pooh Corner

2 Gibbon's Decline and Fall / .
5 C&P / Lucky Jim

>>25626687
>66 sounds a lot like Thomas Ligotti/...
Yeah, it does. Not him though, sadly. (Too many X-chromosomes, for one thing.)

>>25626697
>Lucky Jim
*Lord Jim

>>25626496
22 - The heart is a lonely hunter/..
26 - The dwarf/...

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>>25626673
>31 start - The Long Goodbye, Chandler

The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lennox he was drunk in a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith outside the terrace of The Dancers.

>>25626513
83 - Because I could not stop for Death, Dickinson/...

20 . / An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge

>>25626512
74 - Ecclesiastes/...
75 - The Fountsanhead/...

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>>25626688
Another serious swathe cut through the jungle here.

These are all good:

>11 Jane Eyre / .
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

>16 . / Burns' Field Mouse
Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie,
O! what a panic’s in thy breastie!

>18 Tarzan / Huck Finn
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other.
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You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter.

>22 . / War of The Worlds
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

>28 . / Le Morte d'Arthur
It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time.

>29 . / Little Women
“Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

>39 . / Fahrenheit 451
It was a pleasure to burn.

>42 . / Vanity Fair
While the present century was in its teens, and on a sunshiny morning in June, there drew up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing harness, driven by a fat coachman in a three-cornered hat and wig, at the rate of four miles an hour.


[1/2]

>>25626739

>45 Scanner Darkly / .
Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.

>49 . / Confederacy of Dunces
A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head.
[First half not the second half]

>58 P&P / Alice
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
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One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to do with it:— it was the black kitten’s fault entirely.
[Alice The Looking-Glass, not Alice In Wonderland]

>63 . / Scarlet Letter
A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.

>77 Old Man and The Sea / .
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.

>92 Songs of a Dead Dreamer The Frolic/ .
In a beautiful home in a beautiful part of town — the town of Nolgate, site of the state prison — Dr. Munck examined the evening newspaper while his young wife lounged on a sofa nearby, lazily flipping through the colorful parade of a fashion magazine.
[Thomas Ligotti, if anyone was wondering]

>93 House at Pooh Corner
One day when Pooh Bear had nothing else to do, he thought he would do something, so he went round to Piglet’s house to see what Piglet was doing.


This isn't:

>24 .Notre-Dame / .


[2/2]

56. Second part I’m thinking Abbott, Flatland

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>>25626697
2/2 here:

>2 Gibbon's Decline and Fall / .
In the second century of the Christian Aera, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.

>5 C&P / Lucky Jim, make that Lord Jim
On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.
[Crime And Punishment, if that wasn't obvious.]
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He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.

31 . / Dombey and Son

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>>25626702
Both right here:

>22 - The heart is a lonely hunter/..
In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together.

>26 - The dwarf/...
I am twenty-six inches tall, shapely and well proportioned, my head perhaps a trifle too large.
[Pär Lagerkvist, if anyone was wondering]

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>>25626714
>83 - Because I could not stop for Death, Dickinson/...

I thought this was pretty well-hidden:

Because I could not stop for Death —
He kindly stopped for me —
The Carriage held but just Ourselves —
And Immortality.

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>>25626717
>20 . / An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge
A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.
[Ambrose Bierce]

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>>25626722
2/2 here:

>74 - Ecclesiastes/...

ECCLESIASTES 1
1. The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
[Traditionally attributed to King Solomon, although some contrarian scholars these days dispute it.]

>75 - The Fountsanhead/...
Howard Roark laughed.
[The Fountainhead; Ayn Rand of course.]
Character name is a bit of a gimme but life shouldn't be all blood, sweat and tears.

>>25626747
>56. Second part I’m thinking Abbott, Flatland
Kinda plausible, but nope. The second part is the bit in translation.

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>>25626762
>31 . / Dombey and Son
Right, Dickens:

Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.

>>25626512
79 - The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy/.?

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44) Three Dorian Grays in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Portrait)

Completing what other anons started:
2b) Paul Clifford
25b) Secret History

A few lonely guesses:
12a) To Kill a Mockingbird?
14a) True Grit?
24a) The Count of Monte Cristo
48a) Rebecca
60a) Far from the Madding Crowd
65b) Don Quixote
87b) A Scandal in Bohemia?

63 is walter scott ivanhoe my mush

>>25626872
oh and 55 is haggard king solmon's mines

>>25626823
>79 - The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy/.?
Nope, sorry.

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>>25626855
Duck Tape definitely better than mere Duct Tape.

All good here:


>44) Three Dorian Grays in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Portrait)
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
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There were four of us — George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.

>2b) Paul Clifford
Of course. The splendid Mr. Bulwer-Lytton himself:

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

>25b) Secret History
The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.

>12a) To Kill a Mockingbird?
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

>14a) True Grit?
People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day.

>24a) The Count of Monte Cristo
On February 24, 1815, the lookout at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the arrival of the three-master Pharaon, coming from Smyrna, Trieste and Naples.

>48a) Rebecca
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

>60a) Far from the Madding Crowd
When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.

[I guess I’m libelling a good man with the ominous reworking. Oh well, never mind.]

>65b) Don Quixote
Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.

>87b) A Scandal in Bohemia?
To Sherlock Holmes, she is always *the* woman.

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>>25626872
>63 is walter scott ivanhoe

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.

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>>25626875

>55 is haggard king solmon's mines
It is a curious thing that at my age — fifty-five last birthday — I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a history.

>>25626491
15 - ./Das Parfüm
>>25626498
33 - Die Blechtrommel/.?

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>>25626930
Beides ist hier richtig:

>15 - ./Das Parfüm
In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages.

[In England we tend to call it ‘Perfume, The Story of a Murderer’by Patrick Suskind]


>33 - Die Blechtrommel/.?
Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there’s a peephole in the door, and my keeper’s eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.

[Günter Grass, ‘The Tin Drum’]

>>25626498
40) ./Amerika, Kafka
>>25626501
48) Rebecca(already found)/Portnoys complaint

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>>25627044
2/2 here:

>40) ./Amerika, Kafka
As Karl Rossman, a poor boy of sixteen who had been packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had seduced him and got herself a child by him, stood on the liner slowly entering the harbor of New York, a sudden burst of sunshine seemed to illuminate the Statue of Liberty, so that he saw it in a new light, although he had sighted it long before.

>48) Rebecca(already found)/Portnoys complaint
She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seem to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise.

>>25626491
19b) Bolaño, 2666?
>>25626502
56b) Borges, the library of babel?

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>>25627123
Both good here. Two more tricky translated works out the way (using short snippets like this is close to unfair, because of the different versions):

>19b) Bolaño, 2666?
The first time that Jean-Claude Pelletier read Benno von Archimboldi was Christmas 1980, in Paris, when he was nineteen years old and studying German literature.

>56b) Borges, the library of babel?
The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

>>25626489
>4)
I think this is Beatrix Potter and CS Lewis Peter Rabbit and Narnia
>9)
First is TS Eliot
>22)
First seems like Heart is a Lonely Hunter or at least two mutes fit the story
>23)
Second is Poe the Raven
>36)
First is Dante
>49)
I bet that green cap is Confederacy of Dunces
>56)
The hexagons might be Library of Babel if I recall the library layout correctly
>93)
Pooh Bear is clearly Winnie the Pooh

There were some real funny ones here

>>25626489
3a) Peter Pan
7) Master and Commander + Infinite Jest
10a) Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
>>25626501
50) Sartor Resartus + Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
>>25626513
85a) Frankenstein
>>25626516
98b) The Very Hungry Caterpillar

>>25626491
11. Bronte/Keats (Eyre/St. Agnes Eve, or 'Eve of..')

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>>25627619
Pretty much all good, although others got there first:

>4)
>I think this is Beatrix Potter and CS Lewis Peter Rabbit and Narnia
‘The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe’

>9)
>First is TS Eliot
‘The Waste Land’

>22)
>First seems like Heart is a Lonely Hunter or at least two mutes fit the story
Carson McCullers.

>23)
>Second is Poe the Raven
Right.

>49)
>I bet that green cap is Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole

>56)
>The hexagons might be Library of Babel if I recall the library layout correctly
J. L. Borges.

>93)
>Pooh Bear is clearly Winnie the Pooh
It’s The House At Pooh Corner.


This one is sort of correct but actually something else (also already found):
>36)
>First is Dante
Of course it’s quoting the famous bit from the Inferno, but American Psycho is the book.

>>25626509
70a) Camus, the Myth of Sisyphos
>>25626513
85b) Thoreau, Walden?

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>>25627681
All good here and none previously found:


>3a) Peter Pan
All children, except one, grow up.


>7) Master and Commander + Infinite Jest
The music-room in the Governor’s House at Port Mahon, a tall, handsome, pillared octagon, was filled with the triumphant first movement of Locatelli’s C major quartet.
+
I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.


>10a) Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life: according to my application of it, I trust that it will prove not merely an interesting record, but in a considerable degree useful and instructive.


>50) Sartor Resartus + Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Considering our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rushlights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction, so that not the smallest cranny or dog-hole in Nature or Art can remain unilluminated,— it might strike the reflective mind with some surprise that hitherto little or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes.
+
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.


>85a) Frankenstein
You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.


>98b) The Very Hungry Caterpillar
In the light of the moon an egg lay on a leaf.

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>>25628031

>11. Bronte/Keats (Eyre/St. Agnes Eve, or 'Eve of..')
Both correct. Someone already got Jane Eyre, but the Keats is all yours:

St. Agnes’ Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was!

[This one is tricky because the capital ‘A’ suggests there are two sentences here. But it’s possible to consider the whole as one sentence. I did honour the capitalization in the new version anyway.]

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>>25628629
Both good here:

>70a) Camus, the Myth of Sisyphos
Sisyphus, yeah. “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.”

>85b) Thoreau, Walden?
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only.

24 . / The Enormous Room
34 . / Brave New World
68 Winesburg Ohio / .
79 Kim / .

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>>25629155
All good here:


>24 . / The Enormous Room
e. e. cummings’ account of getting interned semi-accidentally in France in WW1:

In October, 1917, we had succeeded, my friend B. and I, in dispensing with almost three of our six months’ engagement as Voluntary Drivers, Sanitary Section 21, Ambulance Norton Harjes, American Red Cross, and at the moment which subsequent experience served to capitalize, had just finished the unlovely job of cleaning and greasing (*nettoyer* is the proper word) the own private flivver of the chief of section, a gentleman by the convenient name of Mr. A.


>34 . / Brave New World
A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories.


>68 Winesburg Ohio / .
The prologue bit, called ‘The Book of the Grotesque’:

The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty in getting into bed.


>79 Kim / .
He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher — the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum.

very cool new idea

16. To A Skylark (Shelley) / ...
28. The Book of Disquiet (Pessoa) / Le Morte d'Arthur (Malory)
50. ... / Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (Stevens)
51. Water (Larkin) / ...
58. Pride and Prejudice (can't believe I'm the first?) / ...
64. The Instruction Manual (Ashbery, one of your favourites, quizanon?) / ...
71. My Last Duchess (Browning) / ...
73. My Heart Leaps Up (Wordsworth) / ...
77. The Old Man and The Sea (Hemingway) / ...

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>>25629765
All good here. Some already found, but lots of new stuff too:


>16. To A Skylark (Shelley) / ...
Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!


>28. The Book of Disquiet (Pessoa) / Le Morte d'Arthur (Malory)
I was born in a time when the majority of young people had lost faith in God, for the same reason their elders had had it – without knowing why.
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<The Malory was already ID’d.>


>50. ... / Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (Stevens)
This one also already ID’d.


>51. Water (Larkin) / ...
If I were called in
To construct a religion
I should make use of water.


>58. Pride and Prejudice (can't believe I'm the first?) / ...
Someone already got it, but called it ‘P&P’, to save valuable keyboard wear & tear.


>64. The Instruction Manual (Ashbery, one of your favourites, quizanon?) / ...
As I sit looking out of a window of the building
I wish I did not have to write the instruction manual on the uses of a new metal.

Dunno about ‘favourites’, but I like to show /lit/ things that aren’t doorstopper novels every now and then, just for the novelty value.


>71. My Last Duchess (Browning) / ...
That’s my last duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive.

A bit of a gimme really, I thought, especially in conjuction with the author list, but you're the first, so . . .


>73. My Heart Leaps Up (Wordsworth) / ...
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!

Technically the title is ‘The Rainbow’ but I guess people know it by the first line as much as anything.


>77. The Old Man and The Sea (Hemingway) / ...
This one already ID’d.

53. Time's Arrow (Amis) / The Portrait of a Lady (James)
54. The Sick Rose (Blake) / ...
86. Dover Beach (Arnold) / ...
90. Dream Song 4 (Berryman) / ...
99. Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe) / ...
100. ... / Senlin: A Biography (Aiken)

13 The Destruction of Sennacherib / .
37 Hitchhiker's Guide / .
42 Shane / .
57 Vicar of Wakefield / .

14 True Grit / The Forever War
65 Foundation / .

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>>25630331
All good here:


>53. Time's Arrow (Amis) / The Portrait of a Lady (James)
I moved forward, out of the blackest sleep, to find myself surrounded by doctors . . . American doctors: I sensed their vigor, scarcely held in check, like the profusion of their body hair; and the forbidding touch of their forbidding hands — doctor’s hands, so strong, so clean, so aromatic.

[The book is told backwards in time so this is his death, of course.]

+

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

[OK, this one is pretty famous.]


>54. The Sick Rose (Blake) / ...
O Rose, thou art sick.

[As is this.]


>86. Dover Beach (Arnold) / ...
The sea is calm tonight,
The tide is full, the moon lies fair.

[Used to be famous; less so now, perhaps. I have to say I find MA a bit plodding. I think he’s going to fade, or fade even more, I should say.]


>90. Dream Song 4 (Berryman) / ...
Filling her compact & delicious body
with chicken páprika, she glanced at me
twice.

[I’ve seen this several times on /lit/, not only when I’ve posted it myself.]


>99. Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe) / ...
. . . a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces.

[The Preface. Wolfe being typically Wolfish. I suppose he’s all right if you’re in the mood.]


>100. ... / Senlin: A Biography (Aiken)
It is morning, Senlin says, and in the morning
When the light drips through the shutters like the dew,
I arise, I face the sunrise,
And do the things my fathers learned to do.

[Surely one of the most obscure ones in the whole bunch. It’s tempting to suspect there was some silicon help with this one, but perhaps I am being cynical.]

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>>25630358
All good here. Mostly fairly mainstream although I was expecting #57 to hold people up for a little while:


>13 The Destruction of Sennacherib / .
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.

[Hard to hide an Assyrian really when people have famous opening lines in mind.]


>37 Hitchhiker's Guide / .
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

[Surprised this took as long as it did. Maybe it’s really not so well-known these days? Or maybe some other anons recognized it but did not deign to ID it, given its bad reputation on the board?]


>42 Shane / .
He rode into our valley in the summer of ’89.


>57 Vicar of Wakefield / .
I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.

[Another that I would not expect every anon to have read. But the opening line is one of those which is famous on its own, I suppose.]

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>>25630469
All good (although someone already got Charles Portis):


>14 True Grit / The Forever War
<Already ID’d>
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Tonight we’re going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.


>65 Foundation / .
His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before.

[Character name helps I guess, especially such an obviously-sci-fi-or-fantasy name.]

>>25630854
Wakefield's rather prominently alluded to in The Wasteland, so the little novel has its readers. Strange.. Eliot's very title brings The Deserted Village back to mind, a first: this has never happened before, at least to me (because I'm sure it has probably happened before to others).

>>25630835
> [Surely one of the most obscure ones in the whole bunch. It’s tempting to suspect there was some silicon help with this one, but perhaps I am being cynical.]
I don’t blame you, but for better or worse, I first encountered Aiken and this fragment of Senlin in particular in a Harold Bloom anthology (Possessed by Memory).

>>25631760
Ah right OK. If it made an anthology maybe it's better-known than I suspected. Better-known in USA than UK I suppose.

Update? Where we at now?

>>25632075
>Update?
Progress, by my count:
59/100 — 1st halves
49/100 — 2nd halves
(Surprisingly even; I would have expected the firsts to be much easier.)


1) Jack Kerouac, ‘On The Road’ / Isak Dinesen, ‘Out Of Africa’
2) Edward Gibbon, ‘The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire’ / Edward Bulwer-Lytton, ‘Paul Clifford’
3) J. M. Barrie, ‘Peter Pan’ /
4) Beatrix Potter, ‘Peter Rabbit’ / C. S. Lewis, ‘The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe’
5) Fyodor Dostoevsky, ‘Crime And Punishment’ / Joseph Conrad, ‘Lord Jim’
6)
7) Patrick O’Brian, ‘Master And Commander’ / David Foster Wallace, ‘Infinite Jest’
8)
9) T. S. Eliot, ‘The Waste Land’ / Lucia Berlin, ‘Sex Appeal’
10) Thomas De Quincey, ‘Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater’ /

11) Charlotte Bronte, ‘Jane Eyre’ / John Keats, ‘Eve Of St. Agnes’
12) Harper Lee, ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ /
13) Lord Byron, ‘The Destruction Of Sennacherib’ /
14) Charles Portis, ‘True Grit’ / Joe Haldeman, ‘The Forever War’
15) / Patrick Suskind, ‘Perfume, The Story of a Murderer’
16) P. B. Shelley, ‘To A Skylark’ / Robert Burns, ‘To A Mouse’
17)
18) Edgar Rice Burroughs, ‘Tarzan Of The Apes’ / Mark Twain, ‘Huckleberry Finn’
19) / Roberto Bolaño, ‘2666
20) / Ambrose Bierce, ‘An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge’

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22) Carson McCullers, ‘The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter’ / H. G. Wells, ‘The War Of The Worlds’
23) / Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Raven’
24) Alexandre Dumas, ‘The Count Of Monte Cristo’ / e. e. cummings, ‘The Enormous Room’
25) / H. P. Lovecraft, ‘The Call Of Cthulhu’ / Donna Tartt, ‘The Secret History’
26) Pär Lagerkvist, ‘The Dwarf’ /
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28) Fernando Pessoa, ‘The Book Of Disquiet’ / Thomas Malory, ‘Le Morte D’Arthur’
29) / Louisa M. Alcott, ‘Little Women’
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31) Raymond Chandler, ‘The Long Goodbye’ / Charles Dickens, ‘Dombey And Son’
32)
33) Günter Grass, ‘The Tin Drum’ / William Gibson, ‘Neuromancer’
34) / Aldous Huxley, ‘Brave New World’
35) Allen Ginsburg, ‘Howl’ / Italo Calvino, ‘If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler’
36) B. E. Ellis, ‘American Psycho’ / Thomas Pynchon, ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’
37) Douglas Adams, ‘The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’ /
38)
39) / Ray Bradbury, ‘Fahrenheit 451’
40) / Franz Kafka, ‘Amerika’

41) / Marcel Proust, ‘Swann’s Way’
42) Jack Schaefer, ‘Shane’ / W. M. Thackeray, ‘Vanity Fair’
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44) Oscar Wilde, ‘The Picture Of Dorian Gray’ / Jerome K. Jerome, ‘Three Men In A Boat’
45) Philip K. Dick, ‘A Scanner Darkly’ /
46) John Bunyan, ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ / David Markson, ‘Wittgenstein’s Mistress’
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48) Daphne Du Maurier, ‘Rebecca’ / Philip Roth, ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’
49) / John Kennedy Toole, ‘A Confederacy Of Dunces’
50) Thomas Carlyle, ‘Sartor Resartus’ / Wallace Stevens, ‘Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird’

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61) / Vladimir Nabokov, ‘Speak, Memory’
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63) Walter Scott, ‘Ivanhoe’ / Nathaniel Hawthorne, ‘The Scarlet Letter’
64) John Ashbery, ‘The Instruction Manual’ /
65) Isaac Asimov, ‘Foundation’ / Miguel Cervantes, ‘Don Quixote’
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67)
68) Sherwood Anderson, ‘Winesburg Ohio’ /
69)
70) Albert Camus, ‘The Myth Of Sisyphus’ /

71) Robert Browning, ‘My Last Duchess’ /
72)
73) William Wordsworth, ‘The Rainbow’ /
74) King Solomon, ‘Ecclesiastes’ /
75) Ayn Rand, ‘The Fountainhead’ /
76)
77) Ernest Hemingway, ‘The Old Man and The Sea’ /
78)
79) Rudyard Kipling, ‘Kim’ /
80) / Cormac McCarthy, ‘The Passenger’

81) Anthony Burgess, ‘Earthly Powers’ /
82) Samuel Beckett, ‘Murphy’ /
83) Emily Dickinson, ‘Because I Could Not Stop For Death’ /
84)
85) Mary Shelley, ‘Frankenstein’ / H. D. Thoreau, ‘Walden’
86) Matthew Arnold, ‘Dover Beach’ /
87) / Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘A Scandal In Bohemia’
88) James Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ / Agatha Christie, ‘Ten Little Niggers’
89)
90) John Berryman, ‘Dream Song #4’ /

91)
92) Thomas Ligotti, ‘The Frolic’ /
93) A. A. Milne, ‘The House At Pooh Corner’ /
94)
95) William Faulkner, ‘The Sound And The Fury’ / Julian Barnes, ‘Flaubert’s Parrot’
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97)
98) / Eric Carle, ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’
99) Thomas Wolfe, ‘Look Homeward, Angel’ /
100) / Conrad Aiken, ‘Senlin: Morning Song’