War literary quiz.

Pedro · Sep 17, 2008

Lucius: I think I see your mind at work here. You picked up on the word vault. Interesting. I have no idea what vault refers to. The place I am thinking of comes under the heading of a watering hole.

Lucius · Sep 17, 2008

Pedro,

It was a dumb guess. Grant's former comrades-in-arms may or may not have met betimes at his tomb to "pour out a little liquor" but carousing would have been right out, obviously. Over the years, the neighborhood went into decline and visitors had to step over "bums sleeping it off", but that's not precisely carousing either.

I assume the drinking establishment in question had a high ceiling (hence "vault") just like they all used to have, and still do have here and there. I always avoided those dark low-ceilinged joints - the drinks are too pricey.

So, that narrows it down.

Pfaffs?

Pedro · Sep 17, 2008

Lucius said:
Pedro,

It was a dumb guess. Grant's former comrades-in-arms may or may not have met betimes at his tomb to "pour out a little liquor" but carousing would have been right out, obviously. Over the years, the neighborhood went into decline and visitors had to step over "bums sleeping it off", but that's not precisely carousing either.

I assume the drinking establishment in question had a high ceiling (hence "vault") just like they all used to have, and still do have here and there. I always avoided those dark low-ceilinged joints - the drinks are too pricey.

So, that narrows it down.

Pfaffs?

Wonderful what logic can do. You are correct. Your turn.

Lucius · Sep 17, 2008

OK, who penned these words -

"Joyce enjoyed this part of the trial very much, and frequently passed down to his counsel notes that were characteristically odd. Like all prisoners in the dock, he had been given octavo sheets to write on, and could certainly have had as many as he wanted. But when he wrote a note he tore off irregularly shaped pieces and covered them with grotesquely large handwriting, so large that it could be read by people sitting in the gallery. One ended with the words, "but it is not important." His enjoyment of the the argument was not unnatural in one who loved complications, for no stage of it was simple."

Extra credit for the title of the book.

galteeman · Sep 18, 2008

Is this Lord Haw Haw?

Lucius · Sep 18, 2008

galteeman said:
Is this Lord Haw Haw?

Yes, that's the guy being written about. That should narrow it down.

Lucius · Sep 18, 2008

Though she had no formal education after age 16, Time magazine wrote in 1947 that she was "indisputably the world's number one woman writer." She wrote many books, both fiction(including a spy thriller) and non-fiction(including a posthumous release of a travelogue from Mexico).

Lucius · Sep 19, 2008

George Bernard Shaw said in 1916 that she "could handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely."

Her first book was a biography of Henry James in 1916.

Here's a quote from her first work of fiction published in 1918 -

' An hour later I was called back into the room. Chris was looking at himself in a hand-mirror, which he threw on the floor as I entered. "You are right," he said; "I'm not twenty-one but thirty-six." '

Lucius · Sep 20, 2008

Before she was a writer, she was an actress. She kept her stage name as her pen name, having taken it from the heroine in Rosmersholm.

She had a ten-year love affair with H.G. Wells though she was twenty-six years his junior. They had one son together, Anthony.

lars · Sep 21, 2008

are you begining to wish you had asked something else?

i'm going to hazard a guess at Rebecca West. West was her pen-name, as writer, feminist, and journalist (i think). i didn't know that she was an actress though.

Lucius · Sep 21, 2008

lars said:
are you begining to wish you had asked something else?

Never! You're right, of course. West's style does, uh, plod some. But she's so damn good she makes you like it!

Go for it, lars.

lars · Sep 21, 2008

okay, i hope this is what you guys are looking for, who said:

'History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.'

Lucius · Sep 21, 2008

Kurt Vonnegut?

lars · Sep 22, 2008

Lucius said:
Kurt Vonnegut?

sorry, no.

Lucius · Sep 22, 2008

Graham Greene?

lars · Sep 22, 2008

not graeme green.

Lucius · Sep 22, 2008

MacArthur! Metternich! Montaigne!

Does it start with an M?

lars · Sep 22, 2008

Lucius said:
MacArthur! Metternich! Montaigne!

Does it start with an M?

mmm, no.

(starts with a P, but don't tell anyone else!

)

Chookie · Sep 22, 2008

Enoch Powell.

lars · Sep 22, 2008

Chookie said:
Enoch Powell.

the very man!

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