first and last

Famous literary first words quiz (via fimoculous)
Would seem to want to be teamed with this link to famous last words of literary characters (via incoming signals)

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Comments: first and last

Sadly-I'm better at fleas!
Posted by Nora at July 5, 2003 07:47 PM

Would that be Nora's literary first or last words I wonder?
Posted by boynton at July 5, 2003 08:41 PM

SCENE I. Richmond. A room.

Enter Pithy, solus

10/13 is the score of our discontent
Made glorious better by this guess of three

Exit
Posted by Pithy at July 5, 2003 09:02 PM

The first words quiz wasn't at all what I was expecting. But then I suppose what I had in mind wouldn't work. It was something like:

Q1 "Ma-ma"

A James Joyce.
B Homer.
C T S Eliot.
D William Shakespeare.
E All of the above plus everyone mentioned in the Oxford Companion to English Literature.
Posted by Gummo Trotsky at July 5, 2003 09:03 PM

And I love Agamemnon's last words. For such an ending was the word bathos made. (Would that make the play a bathedy)?
Posted by Gummo Trotsky at July 5, 2003 09:07 PM

Enter boynton with dagger.
(aside)
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths. Not.
Alas, Pithy, wherefore art the four I missed
and in my missing, guessed.
(Exit)

And Gummo: a very reductive angle. Must check the Oxford to see if great minds do bleat alike.
(Erm I was just being deliberately oblique to ensure people clicked on the link.)
And re Agememmon. Yes, see also "And now what?"
Samsa, Gregor
Short Story: "The Metamorphosis," Franz Kafka, 1915
Posted by boynton at July 5, 2003 11:38 PM

A Heath.

Enter Gummo & the Fool.

Gummo: Blow winds and crack your cheeks,
Like blustering oafs who know not their Rushdie and JM Barrie.
Posted by Gummo Trotsky at July 6, 2003 04:11 PM