Remember the challenge for my readers from Part Nine?:
Anyone think they can name all the books/poems Giles was quoting? Maybe you'll win something if you get it right. Or maybe you won't. Maybe it will just be the satisfaction you'll get from knowing your English classes weren't for naught. So... Did you get them right? Read on to to find out... *** Here is the basic list of titles and authors: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Poems by Catullus
The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
Hamlet by Shakespeare
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas (just a reference) And there is a little peek into my psyche. *** If you're dying to know which quotes fit with which works, then continue on below. I've placed them in the same order they appear in the chapter, which also means they're not always in complete sentences.The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes He did not come at the dawning. He did not come at noon; and out of the tawny sunset, before the rise of the moon. When the road was a gypsy's ribbon, looping the purple moor, a red-coat troop came marching, marching, marching, King George's men came matching, up to the old inn-door. Her eyes grew wide for a moment; she drew one last deep breath, then her finger moved in the moonlight, her musket shattered the moonlight, shattered her breast in the moonlight and warned him with her death.The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll “And has thou slain the jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He chortled in his joy. He took his vorpal sword in hand: long time the manxome foe he sought.The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day, then look for me by moonlight, watch for me by moonlight, I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way. Back, he spurred like a madman, shouting a curse to the sky, with the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high.The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll One, two! One, two! And through and through the vorpal blade went snicker-snack! Blood-red were his spurs in the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat-Poems by Catullus You ask how many of your kisses are enough for me? As great a number of Lybian sand lies in silphium rich Cyrene between the oracle of sweltering Jove and the sacred tomb of old Battus.The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize tonight, but I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light-Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Separated lovers belie absence by a thousand chimeric things that have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing each other, they cannot write to each other; they find a host of mysterious ways to correspond. They exchange the song of the birds, the perfume of flowers, children's laughter, sunlight, the sighs of the wind, the starlight, the whole of creation. O Spring! You are a letter that I write to her. One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore.The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll Beware the jabberwock, my son. The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!(The Host said this in The Ticking Clock) Whichever way it plays out, whether she will belong to you or to the darkness, I sensed that magic will be what tips the scales in either direction.Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Oh, to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would be enough for my eternity. There is a strange thing-- do you know what? I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her.Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don’t you think that we might see each other once or twice?Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare That you have but slumber’d here while these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream.Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas But he could not go gentle into that good night. (not a quote, but a reference)Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as the air, and more inconstant than the wind.Hamlet by Shakespeare For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause: there’s the respect that makes calamity of so long life; for who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor’s wrong…The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe. And as in uffish thought he stood,The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes down the ribbon of moonlight, over the brow of the hill, the highwayman came riding, riding, riding, the redcoats looked to their priming!Les Miserables by Victor Hugo The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being into God, this is love. Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars. How sad the soul when it is sad from love!The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot, in the distance? Were they deaf that they did not hear?The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, it shall clasp a sainted maidenA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens It was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us…The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; and each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.(I made this one up, like it came from one of the books of Camela, but the Numidians did fight against the Romans) Camela stood alone against the Numidian army, and with one word, she felled them where they stood. Came riding the Chosen champion to defeat her.The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes And he rode with a jewelled twinkle, his pistol butt a-twinkle, his rapier hilt a-twinkle, under the jewelled sky. The crescent moon was rising, rising, rising, the crescent moon was rising into the jewelled sky. (meant to sound like previous line) ***Back Home Back: Part 9: Waking the Dead Next: Part 10: The Last Watcher