tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post4461029560416041329..comments2024-03-14T13:06:38.883+00:00Comments on cultural snow: The Blogular Post-ItTim Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-91195586666364562012010-06-09T15:17:18.264+01:002010-06-09T15:17:18.264+01:00Now I'm confused, BWT. I'd guess Chinua Ac...Now I'm confused, BWT. I'd guess Chinua Achebe for the first, but isn't he Nigerian?<br /><br />Nice one Ross; the last one took me a good few hours.Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-4901662360400290292010-06-08T15:43:06.656+01:002010-06-08T15:43:06.656+01:00The Jude Transluscence
The Moribund Avian Mimicry
...The Jude Transluscence<br />The Moribund Avian Mimicry<br />The Grain Repository<br />The Vital SincerityAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12593149210311784484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-70949326484412165852010-06-08T10:19:32.746+01:002010-06-08T10:19:32.746+01:00Tim has got it (as always)
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Am...Tim has got it (as always)<br />Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis<br />The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams<br /><br />But M A Peel - you didn't steal my fortuitude<br /><br />But speaking of world litereature:<br />The Accra Disintegration<br />The Unlachcrymose Infant<br /><br />(and your clue is - one's east, the other's west)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-40641755755860204732010-06-08T09:33:33.934+01:002010-06-08T09:33:33.934+01:00Don't think Crane's really crossed the Atl...Don't think Crane's really crossed the Atlantic to the extent than, say, Mark Twain did. I suspect there's a general perception that US fiction didn't really catch up with Europe until Fitzgerald and Hemingway. And by the 60s, of course, Updike and Roth et al were way ahead.Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-57735199124000034952010-06-08T01:08:34.450+01:002010-06-08T01:08:34.450+01:00Tim, Red Badge of Courage (Henry Fleming) by Steph...Tim, Red Badge of Courage (Henry Fleming) by Stephen Crane. Is this world lit, or just for American 7th grade English?Mapeelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12149683683413237283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-87063591152344587972010-06-07T12:42:42.885+01:002010-06-07T12:42:42.885+01:00BWT: with you on the first (Amis Sr); is the secon...BWT: with you on the first (Amis Sr); is the second Douglas Adams?<br /><br />And Mrs Peel has the better of me once again.<br /><br />Meanwhile, from Twitter, Archie_V offers Cervantes' The Castile Perambulation and Kafka's The Arthropod Conversion.Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-58697232417543309742010-06-07T11:15:58.581+01:002010-06-07T11:15:58.581+01:00Yeah, the third was a stretch for another Hemingwa...Yeah, the third was a stretch for another Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms.<br /><br />blackwatertown, please give hints. <br /><br />If I may borrow your word, then we can have<br /><br />The Fleming Fortitude<br /><br />(staying with American lit, but not world-class)Mapeelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12149683683413237283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-41906575803333506372010-06-07T10:35:11.334+01:002010-06-07T10:35:11.334+01:00The Jacobean Fortuitude
The Astral Perambulation....The Jacobean Fortuitude<br /><br />The Astral Perambulation.<br /><br />(not sure about that second one, the first is my favourite book)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-86690211733582121042010-06-07T05:00:55.491+01:002010-06-07T05:00:55.491+01:00Ooh these are good. I'm guessing Hemingway for...Ooh these are good. I'm guessing Hemingway for the second one, Mrs Peel, but the last has me stumped.<br /><br />From Facebook, Nicholas Pegg offers:<br /><br />The Shandy Digression by Laurence Sterne.<br /><br />The Havisham Misunderstanding by Charles Dickens.<br /><br />The Quested Molestation by E.M. Forster<br /><br />The Beelzebub Pubescence by William GoldingTim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-4383260969928405802010-06-07T01:06:29.519+01:002010-06-07T01:06:29.519+01:00These are all on my bookshelf:
The Marchmain Deba...These are all on my bookshelf:<br /><br />The Marchmain Debacle<br /><br />The San Fermin Triangle<br /><br />Assignation: Milan<br /><br />(Not sure if they're obvious, but let's make it a game)Mapeelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12149683683413237283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-44924376330917757142010-06-06T17:35:56.416+01:002010-06-06T17:35:56.416+01:00OK I've got one. The Cetacean Elimination........OK I've got one. The Cetacean Elimination.....Moby Dick.Dick Headleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978203284842718331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-12035676281370826382010-06-06T16:49:23.265+01:002010-06-06T16:49:23.265+01:00The Urchin Redemption (Oliver Twist)
Rebellion Wi...The Urchin Redemption (Oliver Twist)<br /><br />Rebellion Within (almost any Le Carre novel)<br /><br />Death in an attic (The Diary of Anne Frank)Evsiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11430792151878485765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-25364691350394053932010-06-06T16:08:15.048+01:002010-06-06T16:08:15.048+01:00What a question! How about 'The Canine Extract...What a question! How about 'The Canine Extraction' for 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'? Not that it really requires a worse title.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15961928950277859778noreply@blogger.com