Hello and I'm pulling out my hair
Thu, 2004-01-01 21:00
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Hello and I'm pulling out my hair
Hello all you writers and a HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Whenever I want a pool of fresh young (and more mature) brains, I can always rely on you lot...
Anyway, someone has given me a long literary quiz to do and I have almost finished bar four questions. Two will be easy for the poets among you:
Who wrote 'Valentine'?
Who wrote 'Prayer'?
The other two are driving me CCCCCrazy:
The first is odd:
If 2 is Edward, 3 is Henry, 4 is Gordon and 5 is James, who is number 1.
The second is straightforward but I do not know the answer:
Which book contains Miss Furnish's Boarding School (published 1860)
Can you help?
(Big sloppy cyber kisses for anyone who helps)....
Flash
Is it Frank?
Flash
"Valentine" by Carol Ann Duffy
"Prayer" by Robert Service
Wolfgirl
Thank you Mr Flash. Why Frank though? I have no idea of the logic of this puzzle...my intelligence only stretches so far....
Flash
Frank is a guess.
Odd numbers are five letter names jumping two letters at a time
f=Frank h=Henry j=James
Even numbers are six letter names doing the same as above
e=Edward g=Gordon i=I.....i'll get my coat.
Two other poets have a penned a poem called prayer by the way, obviously i used Plagiarist.com to find this out.
Liana
Julia, can we have the whole list?
Flash
And another thing that name question will annoy me all night now.
Wolfgirl
The whole list is 110 questions! But it was published in the Daily Mail (pah...don't buy it....it was given to me, honestly!) on Friday December 26.....so you might be able to archive it somewhere....
Liana
*faints*
justyn_thyme
1 = Thomas (The Tank Engine)
Liana
JT - well done!! Didnt have you down as a Thomas the tank fan ;o)
justyn_thyme
I'd never heard of it in my life until a minute ago. I just put edward, henry, gordon, james into the askjeeves search engine, and upcame a dozen references to Thomas the Tank Engine.
Isn't the Internet wonderful?
Wolfgirl
Well done Justyn...I would never have got there!
Also does anyone know if Woolf, Hemingway and Nabokov liked to write nude, in bed, in the bath or standing up?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
andrew pack
Hemingway wrote standing up. As she was a depressive, it wouldn't surprise me if Woolf wrote in bed.
Wolfgirl
Thanks Andrew...I've just discovered that Nabokov used to write standing up too, at a lecturn....so they must have that in common.
Now all I have to do is find out the book that contains Miss Furniss's Boarding School and identify an author from a picture who uses two initials instead of names..
How frustrating is it to get so far and then be stumped at the final post...
justyn_thyme
Try Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes. I'm just guessing, but it's about the right time period I think. There are many listings on the web but I didn't find one that said anything about Miss Furniss's Boarding School. Maybe you'll have better luck.
Tempest63
According to info obtained at this link http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/DisplayAnswers.go?question_id=39003&categ...
The book in question is "Victims of Benevolence: The Dark Legacy of the Williams Lake Residential School".
aggy
Which book contains Miss Furnish's Boarding School (published 1860)
Vanity Fair.
Tony Cook
Bah! I knew the Thomas one but Justyn beat me to it by foul means. HNY Wolfie and the rest of you.
Wolfgirl
No unfortunately it's a man and I think a very modern one. I'm stumped.
Sooz
It's not the prime of Miss Jean Brodie is it? Again just a guess. I can sort of understand the writing in the nude thing. I feel constricted if I write with a bra on and always take it off before I begin.