Where is it from?

[Andy78]

Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

[podga]

It's English 101!

[Zombie]

It's another dead guy

 

Wild guess **stab! stab! stab!** Robinson Crusoe ... but maybe the language isn't antiquated enough.

Hmmm *sits in a dark corner and sings sea shanties ...*

[Andy78]

Robinson Crusoe

 

You'd have been better off guessing Twilight by Stephanie Something

[Red_A]

It's another dead guy

 

Wild guess **stab! stab! stab!** Robinson Crusoe ... but maybe the language isn't antiquated enough.

Hmmm *sits in a dark corner and sings sea shanties ...*

 

[Slytherin]

Moby dick ?

[Andy78]

Yes, tis Moby Dick.

 

I deliberately left out the slightly more famous line at the start "Call me Ishmael", that would have made it too easy.

 

Your turn.

[Slytherin]

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.."

[Palantir]

Yay! Bilbo makes his famous speech to his fellow hobbits at his eleventy-leventh (if that's how you spell it) goodbye party.

LOTR.

[Slytherin]

Yes you got it !! I love that line !!

[Palantir]

'Two thousand million or so years ago two galaxies were colliding; or, rather, were passing through each other.

[LJH]

Ray bradbury?

 

[Palantir]

Nope! - several decades earlier than our recently departed RB.

I look on it as THE space opera, depicting the clash of two mighty civilizations.

[podga]

Almost sounds like the beginning of Star Wars, only better.

[Andy78]

It's E E Smith's "Triplanetary" isn't it? From the Lensman series.

[Frostina]

Almost sounds like the beginning of Star Wars, only better.

 

i was thinking Star wars too! BUT... well

methinks Andy got it!

[Palantir]

Yep! Andy's got it.

The ideas E E 'Doc' Smith poured out in the 1930s were mind boggling.

Your turn Andy.

[Andy78]

Let's try this one:

 

Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.

[comicfan]

I kept wondering when someone would get around to Thomas Hardy. My professor in college specialized in him. Sigh. If only i was Far from the Madding Crowd

[Andy78]

It's one of my favourite line in all literature

 

With me around Wayne you will never be Far from the Madding Crowd

[comicfan]

I shouldn't have said it, but the word slipped out of my mouth as easy as air. It wasn't exactly the kind of word any well-behaved student would use, which sort of explained why I had just used it. And it certainly isn't the most elegant way to start off a story, but it honestly represents what I was feeling. Besides, I could have said something a lot stronger.

[Andy78]

Clue time please

[Xtro]

First part of a dragon trilogy - Obert Skye's Pilage. Friends bought them for me as I'm a bit of a dragon fan.

[comicfan]

Very good Xtro. All yours.

[Xtro]

Okay, from 2007

 

Gordon Edgley's sudden death came as a shock to everyone - not least himself. One moment he was in his study, seven words into the twenty-fifth sentence of the final chapter of his new book And Darkness Rained Upon Them, and the next he was dead.