Where is it from?

[comicfan]

You got it Andy. Your turn.

[Andy78]

Here goes:

 

I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.

[LJH]

[Frostina]

Here goes:

 

I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.

 

oooo...

Is it Great Expectations... Dickens?

[Andy78]

Yes it is Frosty, your turn.

 

**Note to self: Be more sneaky**

[comicfan]

Note to Andy - Classics don't last long with Frosty. Lol

[Frostina]

Yes it is Frosty, your turn.

 

**Note to self: Be more sneaky**

 

bring it on!

 

Note to Andy - Classics don't last long with Frosty. Lol

 

shush! dont give away my secrets!

 

okay, so:

 

"I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race."

[comicfan]

Damn you Frosty this is so familiar. I am off to my shelf to go through my books from college again. Grr.

[Frostina]

 

**snickers**

[Daddydavek]

It sounds like Joyce but I don't remember which story.

[Frostina]

It sounds like Joyce but I don't remember which story.

 

 

Correct Author!

 

now... the title!

[Andy78]

**plucks Joyce title out of thin air**

 

Finnegan's Wake

[Frostina]

**plucks Joyce title out of thin air**

 

Finnegan's Wake

 

Sorry... Nope!

[Zombie]

*wild guess* Ulysses. Not read it - it's the only other title I know by JJ. But I do know this also used experimental language, and this doesn't read like your standard sentence. I mean, you'd get some odd looks if you tried to slip this into a casual conversation about effective ways to exterminate the Beiber

[Frostina]

 

I'm sorry, but Ulysses isnt the correct answer.

 

ps: Joyce does have experimental language. but i'm sure even he would be criticised if he used this sentence while plotting how to exterminate Beiber!

[Daddydavek]

Frosty give us a hint. I last read Joyce more than 40 years ago!

[Frostina]

lol. we're running out of titles. but... hint...

 

hmm...

 

the book has minimal dialogues and has both third person narrative as well as entries in the form of journal entries.

 

Also, it was published before Ulysses.

 

 

There! i dunno what else i can say without really giving it away!

[Daddydavek]

I am still guessing: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?

 

I'm not even sure I read the whole book. I was about 13 and thought it was a bit pretentious. None of the kids I knew talked that way to each other.

[Frostina]

 

It's tough to relate, isnt it?

 

But, you've got it right this time.

 

Over to you!

[Daddydavek]

Here's a quote from an American classic:

 

"The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."

[Andy78]

I know it, but only because it's an opening line - never actually read the book. I love famous opening lines.

 

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

[Frostina]

**applauds**

[Daddydavek]

Andy is correct. It is a wonderful period piece and a compelling story. Read it when you get time. Andy its your turn!

[Andy78]

**no easy ones for Frosty this time , me hopes**

 

"The morning of the first of September was crisp and golden as an apple, and as the little family bobbed across the rumbling road towards the great, sooty station, the fumes of car exhausts and the breath of pedestrians sparkled like cobwebs in the cold air."

[Frostina]

Andy... you're kidding, right?

 

or am I not supposed to have read the Rowling?