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Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 8, Round 2 - Literature - As Book Titles Go, It Could've Been Verse
> 1. From Genesis 4:16:
> "And the Lord placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him
> would kill him. So Cain went out from the presence of the Lord
> and settled in the land of Nod on the ."
East of Eden
> 2. From Ecclesiastes 3, verses 1-3:
> "To everything there is a season,
> A time for every purpose under heaven:
> A time to be born,
> And a time to die;
> A time to plant,
> And a time to pluck what is planted;
>
> And a time to heal;
> A time to break down,
> And a time to build up".
A Time to Kill
> 3. From W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming":
> "Turning and turning in the widening gyre
> The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
> ; the centre cannot hold;
> Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world".
Things Fall Apart
> 4. From the "Battle Hymn of the Republic":
> Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord,
> He is trampling out the vintage where
> are stored,
> He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword,
> His truth is marching on."
The Grapes of Wrath
> 5. From Ecclesiastes 1, verses 1-4:
> "One generation passes away, and another generation comes;
> But the earth abides forever.
> , and the sun goes down,
> And hastens to the place where it arose."
The Sun Also Rises
> 6. From Shakespeare's "Macbeth":
> "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
> "That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
> "And then is heard no more. It is a tale
> "Told by an idiot, full of ,
> Signifying nothing."
Sound and Fury
> 7. From Robert Burns, "To a Mouse":
> "But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane,
> In proving foresight may be vain:
> The best laid schemes
> Gang aft agley,
> An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain."
Of Mice And Men
> 8. From Frank Green's "Ten Little Soldiers":
> "Two little Soldier Boys sitting in the sun;
> One got frizzled up and then there was one.
> One little Soldier Boy left all alone;
> He went out and hanged himself ".
And Then There Were None
> 10. From Shakespeare's "Hamlet":
> "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of Foster Wallace title>, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne
> me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my
> imagination it is!"
Infinite Jest
> * Game 8, Round 3 - Entertainment - TV Show Quotes
> 1. "No soup for you!"
Seinfeld
> 3. "We were on a break!"
Friends
> 2. "Who loves ya, baby?"
Kojak
> 4. "Don't have a cow, man!"
The Simpsons
> 5. "Just one more thing..."
Columbo
> 8. "Much as you try to bury it, the truth is out there. Greater
> than your lies, the truth wants to be known."
The X-Files
> 10. "I am not in danger, Skyler. I *am* the danger. A guy opens
> his door and gets shot, and you think that's me? No -- I am
> the one who knocks!"
Breaking Bad
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