wiki-illiam #106: q17

[dubdobdee]

"Which author concluded what with these words?
i: "Assist."
ii: "All the papers on the subject are there in my safe."
iii: "As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on."
iv: "At any moment, it seemed, there could be surprises, huge upsets, even the end of small lizard worlds."
v: "The sun dipped down from the great tower on to the upturned face, and his eyes were glistening through their tears."
vi: "He remembered how Marie had said he was a man whom women loved easily, and he felt uncomfortable at being reminded of her."
vii: "I can't reconcile my mind to their taking up with kanakas, and I'd like to know where I'm to find them whites."
viii: "And I began to curse and swear under my breath, because I'd left my shoes in the Mayni Tunnel"
ix: "Very lightly she slipped up into bed, and very soon she was asleep."
x: "'Steer north,' said he."

ps final Q goes up on monday, as I'm on the other side of town tomorrow

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ii: is a Sherlock Holmes story, surely
iii: reminds me of tolkien, sam and frodo in mordor, but i don't believe any sentence like this ends a chapter -- and it's probably something else

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

googled iii and it was wrong, but what it IS combined with a guess at ii -- i skimmed the short stories and it's none of them, so mmust be one of the books -- gives me the theme

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

iii Thomas Hardy, and Tess. Creepy Angel has gotten it on with Tess's little sister, and they are sitting atop a hill watching her be hung in the distance.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

so already we have Tess of the Durbervilles and Hound of the Baskervilles!

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

One of these must be Farmville?

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

vii) Is Stevenson!! It's the end of the novella 'The Beach of Falesa'.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Tess of the D'urbervilles = 1891?; Beach of Falesa = 1st magazine publication 1892; Hound of the Baskervilles = serialised 1901-1902 (a/c wikip.) Don't know if this is a theme or pattern, any more than having 'of' in the title.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

The answer to viii (found by google) was written in 1954, and doesn't have 'of' in the title either. :(