@ann_leckie tropes are the best. Six Wakes throws some solar sails on a space ship, has mindmapping clones as a critical plot feature and it doesn't have to waste time explaining much.
Because I need/want to deal with this Junot Diaz news in another way, can we signal boost some Latina authors out there? I just bought Cristina García's "Dreaming in Cuban" and have @RaquelCepeda's "Bird of Paradise" to get to next.
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston goes to a pub and asks an old prole about life in the olden days. But it's all in vain, because the man can't remember anything Winston thinks is important, so Winston gives up and leaves.
Later that evening, he finds an old antique shop run by another prole name...
But you must be really in love for the cliché to bounce back like a boomerang smack dab between the eyes with the ring of the gospel truth to your born-again ears.
Quoted from chapter 01.
@BESW OK, I can see that argument. But I tend to lean towards lenience on multi-query questions when they're all interconnected somehow - in this case, all about a single relatively short passage at the beginning of the story.
@heather If you're looking for hard-core Tolkien nerds who're likely to have copies of these less well-known texts, you might try Science Fiction & Fantasy. There's at least one chat-frequenting Tolkien head (Edlothiad), and several others on-site.
Actually, you might be able to turn this into a question on (either) main site. Asking for the precise origin - page number etc. - of a known quote is certainly answerable and relevant.
@heather Well, firstly I think this type of question is very difficult to answer: barring a direct quote from Tolkien about that particular Twain work, it's very hard to tell whether what seems like two fairly generic descriptions of a king emerging from doubt were in fact directly related or just coincidentally similar. So although your answer doesn't provide any definitive evidence, it's probably the best we're going to get.
Within the parameters of a hard-to-answer question, it's well researched and well written. I just have a couple of suggestions which would make it easier to follow:
1) "Then, I found this little gem, which seems to clearly indicate that Tolkien was indeed aware of at least some of the works of Mark Twain:" -- without following the link, it's not clear what the following quote actually refers to. You should at least say that it's a letter from Tolkien. In fact, given that the text of the letter itself is right there on the page you link to, why not quote that directly?
> I hope that the Chapel Perilous went and is going well [though I seldom see or read reviews, and but for a cutting agency should not see my own – In spite of them I do not read them all] A curious and rather disturbing blend. I hope you won’t mind my mentioning “a Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.” I only do so, because of the shattering difference. Of course there are the deliberate
> <p4>mechanical anachronisms in both. the hello–girls and telephones, and electrified wire; and dwarfs with photographic apparatus: I don’t like ‘em, of course, and think it better if the satire arises o…
2) "What is also of note is that Twain based the book off of actual sources of the story of Joan of Arc - the book lists 11 official sources as “authorities examined in verification of the truthfulness of this narrative.”" -- source for this quote?
In the Picador edition of Pynchon's V, there is a V of Vs on (pre) page 7, and each chapter title is structured as a V.
Does the first edition also contain a V of Vs, etc? (Jonathan Cape in UK)
[... This use of the V has always shaped my interpretation of the symbolism of V, and am now wonder...
But you must be really in love for the cliché to bounce back like a boomerang smack dab between the eyes with the ring of the gospel truth to your born-again ears.
Quoted from chapter 01.
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
In the Picador edition of Pynchon's V, there is a V of Vs on (pre) page 7, and each chapter title is structured as a V.
Does the first edition also contain a V of Vs, etc? (Jonathan Cape in UK)
[... This use of the V has always shaped my interpretation of the symbolism of V, and am now wonder...
