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imasinger

Sat, Mar 07 2015, 8:45 pm

Right again, Betsy Tacy.

Can you tell how much procrastination of household chores went into making this? Wink

sequoia

Sat, Mar 07 2015, 8:46 pm

Is 27 Pope?

imasinger

Sat, Mar 07 2015, 8:47 pm

Sequoia, yes, #30 is Emily Dickinson, and the "order of your going" is Macbeth.

27 is Pope. Good!

BetsyTacy

Sat, Mar 07 2015, 9:00 pm

I don't know if he said it, but MLK should have said #31.
If only these quotes could have been by these authors but from their more famous works! (Who has ever read Barnaby Rudge?)

sequoia

Sat, Mar 07 2015, 9:02 pm

19 -- Merchant of Venice?

BetsyTacy

Sat, Mar 07 2015, 9:11 pm

Doesn't " In the long, sleepless watches of the night" sound like the anatomy of melancholy?
If I wasn't having so much fun, that line would make me feel blue.

All right, I will now bow out to people who have actually read Ulysses, and any Kafka besides the Metamorphosis, but I will definitely be following this thread.

Thanks imasinger! This is so much fun-much more fun than those who are probably posting about Pesach cleaning Smile

imasinger

Sat, Mar 07 2015, 9:45 pm

BetsyTacy, that is a melancholic line, but it is not Burton's. The Burton line I will give you in its entirety, because I thought it was kind of obnoxious, and I enjoyed chopping it to my purpose:

"Women wear the breeches...[a strange bit about sheep devouring a town] in a word, the world turned upside downwards..."

imasinger

Sat, Mar 07 2015, 9:48 pm

Sequoia, right again about Merchant of Venice.

BetsyTacy, I'm sorry I couldn't find something else from Dickens or Kafka. Neither exactly lent themselves as readily to my purpose as, say, Shakespeare.

imasinger

Sat, Mar 07 2015, 9:51 pm

MLK did say #31.

I will let people guess for a little longer, since it seems to be fun, and then post the answers.

I'm surprised there are no G&S afficionados! I thought that was one of my easier ones.

BetsyTacy

Sat, Mar 07 2015, 10:05 pm

I await the answers while I ponder the question--since the only G&S I know is the Pirates of Penzance, could I have connected the modern major general to the megilla?

dimyona

Sat, Mar 07 2015, 10:14 pm

This is amazing!

Rubber Ducky

Sat, Mar 07 2015, 10:18 pm

Imasinger, this is just terrific. Alas, too difficult for my ducky brain (do rubber duckies have brains?) but wonderful nonetheless!

imasinger

Sat, Mar 07 2015, 10:22 pm

Ducky, you got a bunch; I think you should feel good!

I didn't expect that one person would get them all.

Thanks; I had a lot of fun making it.

RedCurls

Sat, Mar 07 2015, 10:39 pm

OT but BetsyTacy could not be more excited about your user name. It's a literary allusion too isn't it? If I'm right, it's my all time favorite series ever. Just had to put that in 😊

BetsyTacy

Sat, Mar 07 2015, 10:42 pm

Given your username, RedCurls, I should call you Tacy!

fmt4

Sat, Mar 07 2015, 11:31 pm

21 is Ulysses! I know my Joyce...

Shoelover

Sun, Mar 08 2015, 12:11 am

This is great! I must send to my mom!!!

imasinger

Sun, Mar 08 2015, 7:23 am

fmt4 wrote:

21 is Ulysses! I know my Joyce...

Very good. Smile

finallyamommy

Sun, Mar 08 2015, 7:50 am

I forgot to respond to this last night, but OMG this is amazing! (Not going to try to guess, because I'm pretty sure the few I know have already beem guessed.) Wow, kol hakavod!

cinnamon

Sun, Mar 08 2015, 8:19 am

Did anyone answer #13 yet? I love that poem! I'm not sure but I think it's by Robort Frost.

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