Topic: Never-Ending Fiction Quiz

[xtopave]

How does the ending of the 'Day of the Triffids' film
differ from that of the book ?

So, who wants to take this one? 

Not that I wasn't interested but, just as 6p, I've only seen the movie, and I had to investigate the book:
Film: Triffids are killed with sea water and humankind is safe.
Book: Not surprisingly, it has an open ending:

So we must think of the task ahead as ours alone. We believe now that we can see our way, but there is
still a lot of work and research to be done before the day when we, or our children, or their children, will
cross the narrow straits on a great crusade to drive the triffids back and back with ceaseless destruction
until we have wiped out the last one of them from the face of the land that they have usurped.

...staid but still clever organizational strategies of Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch.

I've never thought I'd heard that about Rayuela!! 

Now that we're at it: Cortázar opens the novel quoting a text from another author. What's particular about that text?

[tarascon]

Re:  Pavic's novel.  If that sort of interactive text interests you, you might want to check out the more staid but still clever organizational strategies of Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch.

OMG. That book was a headache. lol

Now that we're at it: Cortázar opens the novel quoting a text from another author. What's particular about that text?

The quote by a certain "Abbot Martini" opens the book; the abbot and his quote may be (probably is, since I could find nothing about him online) an invention of Cortazar and supposedly was written near the end of the Enlightenment era--indicating that dry rationalism will soon be followed by playful absurdity. In other words, it presages what the book in the reader's hands represents... a fluid, whimsical game of words, meanings, and sexual politics. One more thing, Martini states that his advice to youths is a "collection of maxims, counsels, and precepts" and seems to promise some dead ends which more-or-less describes Hopscotch itself.

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PS I only will post questions about things I've actually read so that I can be sure I'm not asking unanswerable and misleading questions. Also, I always double-check online to be certain that the answers exist for anyone who may not have read the particular work of fiction. I'd like this thread to be fun and informative.

>> My OP features a work of art by William Blake and shows Urizen. What does he embody for Blake?

[xtopave]

The quote by a certain "Abbot Martini" opens the book; the abbot and his quote may be (probably is, since I could find nothing about him online) an invention of Cortazar and supposedly was written near the end of the Enlightenment era--indicating that dry rationalism will soon be followed by playful absurdity. In other words, it presages what the book in the reader's hands represents... a fluid, whimsical game of words, meanings, and sexual politics. One more thing, Martini states that his advice to youths is a "collection of maxims, counsels, and precepts" and seems to promise some dead ends which more-or-less describes Hopscotch itself.

Nice approach tarascon.
Honestly I trusted my memory (and failed!!) and I was aiming for the next text by "César Bruto" that's deliberately full of spelling mistakes. 

[tarascon]

That was tough one xtopave and, though I'd read the book, I had to check online to make sure I wasn't tripping; that my post approximated the answer to your question. The funny thing is, I read, "Cesar Bruto" is the pseudonym of an actual writer. I fully expect folks to use search engines. 

>> My OP features a work of art by William Blake and shows Urizen. What does he embody for Blake?

[xtopave]

I have not read Blake but for what I have read Urizen embodies reason and law but with a repressive and authoritative connotation. Interestingly the name Urizen might (or might not) derive from a greek verb meaning "to bound, limit".

In The Call of Cthulhu, Lovecraft describes everything related to Cthulhu and R'lyeh with one color. Which color is that?

And also try to pronounce Cthulhu without spitting on your screen. 

[tarascon]

OK, I'll bite. 

"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars." Green and slimy (of course!).

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R'lyeh: coordinates given as S. Latitude 49° 51′ S, Longitude 128° 34′ W....
Fact ...In 1997 Navy sensors detected a very large noise (being picked up on two different sensors 3000 miles apart) being produced at Latitude 50° S, Longitude 120° W. This sound (now known as 'Bloop') is not thought to correspond to any known living or non-living source, and as such, remains unexplained.

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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

>> The Bone Clocks is a novel by David Mitchel told with multiple narrators. Two of them are Hugo Lamb who uses the pseudonym "Marcus Anyder" for criminal activities and Crispin Hershey, a very bitter and very funny failing writer.
Answer one of the two questions below (or both if you'd like):

1. The name Anyder is mentioned in Thomas More's Utopia. What is it?

or

2. Crispin Hershey paraphrases a poem by Shelley--"Look on my works, Richard Cheeseman, and despair!" Which poem does that line refer to?