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The first quiz that ever made me clench my fist and go “Yes!!”

9 o'clock, July 13, 2005


You’re The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien!

Harsh and bitter, you tell it like it is. This usually comes in short, dramatic spurts of spilling your guts in various ways. You carry a heavy load, and this has weighed you down with all the horrors that humanity has to offer. Having seen and done a great deal that you aren’t proud of, you have no choice but to walk forward, trudging slowly through ongoing mud. In the next life, you will come back as a water buffalo.

Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

(Via Dave Schwartz.)

Comments

Well, yes, I suppose:


You're The Poisonwood Bible!

by Barbara Kingsolver

Deeply rooted in a religious background, you have since become both isolated and schizophrenic. You were naively sure that your actions would help people, but of course they were resistant to your message and ultimately disaster ensued. Since you can see so many sides of the same issue, you are both wise beyond your years and tied to worthless perspectives. If you were a type of waffle, it would be Belgian.

—— Benjamin Rosenbaum, 9:47 AM, Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Them Pyramidions give good quiz.

—— David Moles, 9:52 AM, Wednesday, July 13, 2005

I was pretty happy to get Prufrock, although I'd rather be Don Quixote.

—— Dave Schwartz, 9:55 AM, Wednesday, July 13, 2005

As for me, apparently:

You're Pale Fire!
by Vladimir Nabokov

You're really into poetry and the interpretation thereof. Along the road of life, you have had several identity crises which make it very unclear who you are, let alone how to interpret poetry. You probably came from a foreign country, but then again you seem foreign to everyone in ways unrelated to immigration. Most people think you're quite funny, but maybe you're just sick. Talking to you ends up being much like playing a round of the popular board game Clue.

I guess this is what I get for answering "Do you like poetry?" with "yes".

Huh. Good quiz. There is a carnival outside my window. I'm not sure my book fits me quite right, though.

—— Karen, 10:28 AM, Wednesday, July 13, 2005

ha! Love in the time of cholera for me!

—— Brandon, 10:29 AM, Wednesday, July 13, 2005

You're Love in the Time of Cholera!
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Like Odysseus in a work of Homer, you demonstrate undying loyalty by sleeping with as many people as you possibly can. But in your heart you never give consent! This creates a strange quandary of what love really means to you. On the one hand, you've loved the same person your whole life, but on the other, your actions barely speak to this fact. Whatever you do, stick to bottled water. The other stuff could get you killed.

Um. This does not describe me at all. No...

—— Meghan, 11:23 AM, Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Karen, is there really a carnival outside your window?!?

—— Dave Schwartz, 2:57 PM, Wednesday, July 13, 2005

No, really outside my window it's pretty quiet, but you should read Pale Fire! Ees good, and then you will get my humorous joke. The way kids are analysing Harry Potter on the mugglenet forums right now, trying to figure out the apparently ubiquitous clues and what's going on and WHAT IT ALL MEANS... that's how a friend and I read Pale Fire when we were 21, so it's kind of burned into my brain.


—— Karen, 12:08 PM, Thursday, July 14, 2005

I had a feeling I wasn't getting the joke. :-) Thanks for setting me straight.

—— Dave Schwartz, 2:05 PM, Thursday, July 14, 2005

Karen's just being modest. There's always a carnival outside her window.

—— Benjamin Rosenbaum, 10:03 AM, Friday, July 15, 2005

There's always a carnival outside her window.

OK, show of hands; how many folks considered, however briefly, whether they could make a story out of that?

—— Dave Schwartz, 12:58 PM, Friday, July 15, 2005

I hadn’t, but There is always a carnival outside Karen’s window is a pretty decent first line.

(It’d work as a last line, too, I suppose, but you’d have to work at it to keep it from being too saccharine.)

—— David Moles, 1:00 PM, Friday, July 15, 2005

Sure, easy enough for you people scribbling away at a distance; I'm the one making a life out of it! Over the years, in my various places of abode, I've found the merry-go-round is usually the most distracting part.

—— Karen, 1:22 PM, Friday, July 15, 2005

I'm envisioning children offering Karen money if she'll move into their neighborhoods, while parents offer her money if she'll move out. Plus, Karen would probably have an ambiguous relationship with the carnival operators, because their revenues would fall if they were forced to stay in one place for too long.

—— Ted, 3:09 PM, Saturday, July 16, 2005

Finally, a practical vocational use for my wanderlust!

—— Karen, 9:52 AM, Sunday, July 17, 2005