wiki-illiam #104: q2

[dubdobdee]

2: Who began what by:
i: recalling unusual citrous abundance?
ii: describing his subject's physiognomy with a succession of Vs?
iii: justifying the creation of a short palindromic nickname for "himself"?
iv: describing the emergence at dawn of a moustached little man with bowlegs?
v: recalling melancholy inspiration from early evening sights and sounds in a rural churchyard?
vi: suggesting that it was generally accepted that a well-heeled loner must be looking for a lady?
vii: describing a studio filled with the scents of roses, lilac and pink-flowered thorn?
viii: describing his hero facing execution and recalling the discovery of ice?
ix: recalling a send-off from family and friends at Charing Cross?
x: providing an alibi for the white kitten?

q1 here: don't let anatol do it all!

the rules as they have evolved:
a: nice full answers and anecdotes if poss
b: say if googled or no; leave time for non-googlers to play
c: obviously look ahead at future questions if you want
d: don't bring in confirming or dissenting answers from other fora until next set is up and running

DDD semispoilers: I know vi and x and possibly iv, and the theme unless it's subtle

Comments

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

iii is Great Expectations (Pip)?

vi Pride and Prejudice (It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young man in possession of a fortune, etc)

x Alice through the looking glass?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Arf is i) Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

v) Morrissey
vii) Poison's behind the scenes rockumentary

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

ii) do the Vs refer to Verbs, perhaps?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Hahaha perhaps i) is the Seekers! Though the chorus only kicks in at 0.50 so that's not really a 'beginning':

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Also have just found viii because I RECEIVED IT FOR CHRISTMAS hurray :)

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

bah, vi was the only one i knew!

is iv james joyce?

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

i) immediately put Goethe's "Mignon" in my mind: "Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn" -- but since the rest appear to be English(-language) novels, I am doubtful about a German poem.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

ix) is Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread

"They were all at Charing Cross to see Lilia off—Philip, Harriet, Irma, Mrs. Herriton herself. Even Mrs. Theobald, squired by Mr. Kingcroft, had braved the journey from Yorkshire to bid her only daughter goodbye."