Thanks for the link, PC! Interesting--I couldn't say whether I was thinking of the narrator as male or female, because I knew going in, so it felt more gender-neutral in my head.
Zombies! Hyena people! Snyder!
Student ,'Touched'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
meara - Sep 17, 2014 4:23:20 am PDT #22676 of 28343
tommyrot - Sep 17, 2014 4:42:47 am PDT #22677 of 28343
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
...but would probably default male given a male author. (And vice-versa if it were a female author)
When I was reading it, the character felt like a female character as written by a male author.
Brains are weird.
erin_obscure - Sep 18, 2014 2:44:38 am PDT #22678 of 28343
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Congrats p c! Use those powers for good!
Tom Scola - Sep 19, 2014 2:08:21 pm PDT #22679 of 28343
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Hemingway or a children's book? [link]
Steph L. - Sep 19, 2014 2:32:15 pm PDT #22680 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Man, I failed that one hard. 8/15. (And, to be totally honest, the ones I got right were ones I actually recognized from children's books.)
-t - Sep 19, 2014 2:42:37 pm PDT #22681 of 28343
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Also 8/15, which the test assures me is a swell score. I got one right because I thought "That sounds like Virginia Woolf, it can't be Hemingway". It was not Virginia Woolf, but it was also not Hemingway, so go me.
Tom Scola - Sep 19, 2014 2:45:37 pm PDT #22682 of 28343
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I got a worse score the second time I took the quiz.
Dana - Sep 19, 2014 4:02:26 pm PDT #22683 of 28343
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
12 out of 15! I have no idea what I just succeeded at, but hey.
-t - Sep 19, 2014 4:24:00 pm PDT #22684 of 28343
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Second try 13/15. All the same questions. The ones I got wrong I got wrong the first time, and I knew I got wrong, but I couldn't remember how I had guessed before.
bennett - Sep 19, 2014 4:41:54 pm PDT #22685 of 28343
I figured that anything with a conjunction or any kind of clause was probably not Hemingway. It worked pretty well.