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To: Neocon who wrote (26240)7/28/2000 11:25:22 AM
From: lawdog  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
Stop waisting my time with your stoopid quizzes. This is the Doobya thread, not the Doobya and Blowhard Offtopic thread. The answer to all of your questions is WGAF.



To: Neocon who wrote (26240)7/28/2000 11:26:56 AM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769667
 
1. Wordsworth

2. Poe

3. Byron

4. Melville

5. Dickens

6. Stephen Crane

7. Wodehouse

8. Hemingway

9. Steinbeck

10. Orwell



To: Neocon who wrote (26240)7/28/2000 11:40:14 AM
From: jlallen  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
5. A Tale of two Cities (Dickens)

7. Macbeth (Shakespeare)



To: Neocon who wrote (26240)7/28/2000 12:23:52 PM
From: Tom Clarke  Respond to of 769667
 
OK, I'll give it another whack.

1. Tennyson

2. Emily Dickinson

3. Keats

4. William Kennedy

5. Dickens

6. HP Lovecraft

7. Shakespeare (I peeked)

8. de Sade

9. Proust

10. Orwell



To: Neocon who wrote (26240)7/28/2000 12:37:12 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
Charles only got the one he peeked at. Some hints:

1. Translated from Middle English
2. "In the room the women come and go,
Talking of Michaelangelo"......
3. Translated from Ancient Greek
4. Relates to a discussion on Feelies
5. That was gotten
6. Translated from French
7. Gotten
8. The title of the poem is The Canonization
9. A play, translated from French
10. Gotten



To: Neocon who wrote (26240)7/28/2000 2:43:06 PM
From: Neocon  Respond to of 769667
 
Alright, time for the answers:

1. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
2. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot
3. The Iliad, Homer
4. Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut
5. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
6. The Stranger, Albert Camus
7. Macbeth, William Shakespeare
8. The Canonization, John Donne
9. No Exit, Jean- Paul Sartre
10. 1984, George Orwell