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Famous last words

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New game, guessing books from their final lines.

Where's this one from?
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sounds familiar, but i can't place it. i'd like to say Good Omens, but i doubt it.
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
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Post by Sevothtarte »

Good Omens rocks like Santa in a bikini - but no, these lines are from another, much older book.
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I grok this one! :)
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest -Paul Simon
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Post by Sevothtarte »

You got it! :)

For the uninitated: Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein.

Your turn, Fist and Faith. :)
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Here we go!
A ship that size couldn't stop or turn around in less than a mile or so, and the lifeboats would need additional time to locate me at dusk in a rough sea. Yet I knew they would find me if I managed to keep afloat. A wave swept over me, but I shook the white belt of hair out of my eyes and started swimming strongly. Until the body melts and the brain ceases to gel, a man who has come out whole after having been put through his paces by the Delian has a heart for living.
I think it's a tough one, but at least one of you can get it. :) heh heh
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Well I was going 2 guess either Robinson Crusoe as a joke, but will try w/ The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. as that seems a little more plausible--I get the feeling I am totally off base and haven't a clue in the world. And u kno what? It feels GRRRRRRRR-ATE!! :lion: (we don't need no stinkin' tigers...)
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Sorry danlo. :)
Here's a clue: Copyright is 1949. I have reason to suspect that only one of you regular posters knows the answer, and I'm sort of waiting for him/her to visit this thread. :)
And I guess that admission might be another clue.

This is a tough thread, and I expect we'll stump each other quite often if we don't do things like, "History will view us as wives" or however exactly that quote goes. I mean, has anybody else read <U>The Kundalini Equation</U>? There's just too many books that we all just happen to stumble on. Anyway, if nobody gets it, I'll give another clue by the time I go to sleep in 13-ish hours, then the answer tomorrow.
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Moby Dick? (after I posted this my answer stuck me as very funny! But I'm trying, I'm trying!!!)
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:) I was thinking Moby Dick, too... :roll: Didn't want to sound too stupid.
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"it is a wise man who admits he is a fool." just a quote, not a famous last line! :D
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Another hint: In this book, you will meet Orpheus, Robin Hood, Gawain, and a whole bunch of other characters from myth and legend.
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And btw, Master Po said, <I>"The wise man walks with his head bowed, humble, like the dust."</I>
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Fist and Faith wrote:I have reason to suspect that only one of you regular posters knows the answer, and I'm sort of waiting for him/her to visit this thread. :)
Let's set some rules ... the book should be fantasy/SF, at least moderately popular, not an anthology or other kind of collection, published in English of course ...
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Like I said, this is a tough thread. So the answer is <U>Silverlock</U>, by John Myers Myers. My sort of weird clue was because fightingmyinstincts made a thread a few days ago about the book, and I was the only one to respond to it. So I figured that was one person who would know, and the rest of you might have stumbled across that, and remembered it here. :D

So who should go next? I'd say danlo, who made the most guesses.
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Oh! Oh! I was going to guess Silverlock (though only after those clues!)!!!!

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Then Richard nodded, without trusting himself to speak, and stood up. And they walked away together through the hole in the wall, back into the darkness, leaving nothing behind them; not even the doorway.
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Post by Sevothtarte »

I know! :) Fine book, don't know the TV version. But I'll let someone else answer, since I just had my turn. ;)
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Post by Ryzel »

Okay, so I am just fishing here and Sevothyarte mentioned a TV series. :D

My guess is: Neverwhere
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Post by Ylva Kresh »

Jus curious (have only seen the TV-version, and do not remember): was it Neverwhere?

Hoom, I think I shall start a new thread...
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Post by Ryzel »

It is Neverwhere, I have the book right here.
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