Where is it from?

[Zombie]

Looks like no-one's going to get this one

It's The To-Do List

*remembers something urgently needs doing that has been putting off ...*

 

So here's another one

 

I am barely eighteen years old, free rebellious and untrusting. It's winter in Paris, 1968. Pain from multiple cavities forces me to enter a dentist's waiting room. The air is stale, the ceiling low, the wallpaper hideous. A couple of naked forty watt bulbs reveal a dozen senior citizens, who greet my entrance with loathing and suspicion. I grab a stack of outdated newspapers and flip the pages as noisily as possible. Suddenly there is silence: I am staring at an illustration and reading over and over a short article about a fantastic building ...

No cheating peeps
Clues available if you ask nicely

[Andy78]

I know what it's from but I can't remember the title or the author      

[Zombie]

And you want me to give you the point??

 

 

[Andy78]

I love Paxman doing University Challenge.  He is so funny.

 

How about giving me a starter for five?

[Zombie]

Jimmy Stewart's character in a Hitchcock film would have been deeply disturbed by this

 

[Zombie]

More clues? OK then

- it's not fiction

- the film clue was Vertigo

- 1968 is important

Oh, and there was one other key word in the quote.

All you have to do is stitch 'em together. Easy peasy

[Andy78]

I still know the book, and I still can't remember the title or the author

[Zombie]

The book is the author's story, so if you can say what he did - which was and is beyond belief - then I'll give you the point!

[Andy78]

It was the guy who did the rope walk between the Twin Towers

[Zombie]

:Vic2: :Vic2: :Vic2:

Give the sheep the point!

To Reach the Clouds - My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers by Philippe Petit

An exhilarating story grippingly told with lots of nice pics. One of these - on page 189 - sends a shiver down the spine, spookily foreshadowing the terrible events that were to happen decades later, when an airliner just happens to pass overhead between the Twin Towers as Petit is photographed walking the wire ...

 

 

It was a crazy, crazy, crazy thing to do. But awe inspiring too - no-one could have felt more alive at that moment

 

Your turn

[Andy78]

I don't think we've done this one yet:

 

The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years - if it ever did end - began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

[joann414]

Stephen King's  It

[Andy78]

And if I were to say you're wrong?

[Zombie]

SNAP!!!

That's one mean looking critter joann

 

[joann414]

I love Stephen King Andy.  He and Dean Koontz are two of my favs

I'll take that as a compliment zombie. 'wraps tail around zombie and squeezes gently'

[joann414]

"She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love."

[Zombie]

Chick lit?

[Slytherin]

Jo Ann !!!! more clues please

[Zombie]

Probably been too busy developing her range of quality merchandise ...

 

[Slytherin]

Probably been too busy developing her range of quality merchandise ...

 

LOL :lol:

[Andy78]

Uses his special sheep powers to psychically contact JoAnn so she can give us a clue

[Slytherin]

WOW - your special sheep powers are really good Well done Andy    

[Zombie]

 

[Andy78]

We've been here a month since JoAnn's post and we is no closer to guessing.

 

I'm just going to post the next line and we can go back to JoAnn's one at a later date.

 

"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."

[WhitePhoenix]

Agatha Cristie - And then there were None