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Antigone
Posted:
Dec 23, 2016 - 5:22am
olivertwist wrote: Adulterous affair, blood on the tracks
Anna Karenina
Proclivities
Posted:
Dec 23, 2016 - 5:16am
aflanigan wrote:
The "fish" bit threw me off a bit, made me think of
Jaws ; maybe it should've been "deadly cetacean" or something.
kcar
Posted:
Dec 22, 2016 - 8:42pm
One day, two outsiders, dirty city.
kcar
Posted:
Dec 22, 2016 - 8:16pm
Beanie wrote: Castaway kills cannibals, steals ship home
Herman Melville's "Typee"? A longshot, perhaps...
kcar
Posted:
Dec 22, 2016 - 8:13pm
Antigone wrote:
Proclivities wrote: "Springtime For Hitler" ?
So close! A round of schnapps for all!
olivertwist
Posted:
Dec 22, 2016 - 4:07pm
Adulterous affair, blood on the tracks
olivertwist
Posted:
Dec 22, 2016 - 4:03pm
aflanigan wrote:
Yeah, that was pretty brilliant. It's my favorite novel, but I couldn't have captured it so well it in six words like that.
aflanigan
Posted:
Dec 22, 2016 - 3:50pm
olivertwist wrote: Moby Dick , right?
You got it! Have to be particular with word choice when you're limited to just 6, so many fishy stories out there.
olivertwist
Posted:
Dec 22, 2016 - 2:45pm
aflanigan wrote: Adventurer survives monomaniacal captain, deadly fish.
Nice description - Gotta be
Moby Dick , right?
miamizsun
Posted:
Dec 22, 2016 - 1:47pm
story about the profound bond between a boy and his rough and tough collie
Antigone
Posted:
Dec 22, 2016 - 1:34pm
kcar wrote:
The Sound and the Fury
Proclivities
Posted:
Dec 22, 2016 - 1:33pm
kcar wrote:
"Springtime For Hitler" ?
kcar
Posted:
Dec 22, 2016 - 1:26pm
aflanigan wrote:
Yes. He took the book's title from a line in a tragic play.
Proclivities
Posted:
Dec 22, 2016 - 10:39am
ScottFromWyoming wrote: Correction: 89%
Yeah, the later observations are pretty funny too.
ScottFromWyoming
Posted:
Dec 22, 2016 - 10:14am
Proclivities wrote:
Correction: 89%
Proclivities
Posted:
Dec 22, 2016 - 9:15am
ScottFromWyoming wrote:
Thanks.
That's an even higher percentage than I expected.
ScottFromWyoming
Posted:
Dec 22, 2016 - 9:13am
Proclivities wrote: Interesting study; they should've broken down the vehicle type among those who deliberately hit the animals - the results would probably be less surprising than the animal types.
I recently re-read that book, specifically looking for important imagery for my entry in our
local library's Banned Books Week project:
As you can see, I didn't use the turtle imagery. Very nice.
I think he did break out the vehicle type. 88% trucks/SUV among the swervers.
Proclivities
Posted:
Dec 22, 2016 - 9:01am
ScottFromWyoming wrote: VIDEO
Interesting study; they should've broken down the vehicle type among those who deliberately hit the animals - the results would probably be less surprising than the animal types.
I recently re-read that book, specifically looking for important imagery for my entry in our
local library's Banned Books Week project:
As you can see, I didn't use the turtle imagery.
ScottFromWyoming
Posted:
Dec 22, 2016 - 8:54am
Proclivities wrote: Truck driver swerves to hit turtle.
GoW (by the way, the turtle lives).
I looked up the "turtle chapter" a few weeks ago for some reason. Ran across this...
VIDEO
meower
Posted:
Dec 22, 2016 - 8:46am
aflanigan wrote: Something by Faulkner, no doubt?
Everything by Faulkner
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Yeah, that was pretty brilliant. It's my favorite novel, but I couldn't have captured it so well it in six words like that.
