Quiz time

[stephen_dedman]

Having just crashed and burned doing the Guardian's World Book Day Quiz (scoring an embarrassing 12 out of 29), I thought it was time for another last line game

Comments

[sovay]

#6 is Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn.

[stephen_dedman]

Yes!

[sovay]

It's one of my favorite books. It's entirely possible that, with a little thought, I could produce entire passages from memory. This worries me.

[murasaki_1966]

Me too. Maybe we should meet someday and recite bits to each other. Much nicer than doing Monthy Python sketches (not that there's anything wrong with that).

[sovay]

Much nicer than doing Monthy Python sketches (not that there's anything wrong with that).

Much rarer, I think. By the time I finally saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail, I could practically quote all of it.

"We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream. Still I have read, or heard it sung, that unicorns, when time was young, could tell the difference 'twixt the two-the false shining and the true, the lips' laugh and the heart's rue."

[murasaki_1966]

My favourite line is "Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention". Good advice that.

[stephen_dedman]

I can recite the song Lir sings to the unicorn, and a few lines, but that's about it.

[murasaki_1966]

I can recite most of the songs. If fact, I sing them in the bath. They are very singable, even for someone who sounds like a crow with a cold.