What's the source of this quote?
March 7, 2009 8:20 PM
What text and author do the following lines come from?
"He considered resolving to wear a blindfold for a month. He settled on gently closing his eyes for a few seconds." And there's a second...
"And as he pushed off into the flow of the city, an image appeared in his mind's eye, an image of the letter he had received the day before. It had been blank, of course. Not that he hadn't been surprised upon opening it to find no writing contained within, he had been surprised at that, but fleetingly, having been already surprised, and more so, that the letter had arrived at all. But there was that unmarked interior of the letter. Not blank, actually, but filled instead with an unspoken question, with possibility, with challenge."
Both are from the same place. Thank you for any leads!
"And as he pushed off into the flow of the city, an image appeared in his mind's eye, an image of the letter he had received the day before. It had been blank, of course. Not that he hadn't been surprised upon opening it to find no writing contained within, he had been surprised at that, but fleetingly, having been already surprised, and more so, that the letter had arrived at all. But there was that unmarked interior of the letter. Not blank, actually, but filled instead with an unspoken question, with possibility, with challenge."
Both are from the same place. Thank you for any leads!
They both remind me of Douglas Adams, but I can't imagine anything he's written isn't mentioned on the Web somewhere, and neither of your quotes are. Same goes for P. G. Wodehouse.
The second one sounds like something from the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest, but again, it would show up in a search.
cjorgensen is right, we need more details if we are to help you here. Year? Place where you encountered them?
posted by mmoncur at 9:21 PM on March 7, 2009
The second one sounds like something from the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest, but again, it would show up in a search.
cjorgensen is right, we need more details if we are to help you here. Year? Place where you encountered them?
posted by mmoncur at 9:21 PM on March 7, 2009
Hi--The quotes come from a personal letter that someone wrote to me. He thinks I'm literary and know where it came from. But I don't. I've Google searched avidly and come up dry--making me wonder if the source something that's still under active copyright, and not yet in Google Books. Any more suggestions are greatly appreciated!
posted by Household Tipster at 1:37 PM on March 8, 2009
posted by Household Tipster at 1:37 PM on March 8, 2009
This thread is closed to new comments.
posted by cjorgensen at 8:40 PM on March 7, 2009