How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious.

Wash ,'Objects In Space'


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."


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.


sj - Sep 19, 2014 4:59:07 pm PDT #22686 of 28343
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

12 out of 15. If the sentence had any personality at all, I picked children's book. t /not a Hemingway fan


Tom Scola - Sep 20, 2014 8:18:28 am PDT #22687 of 28343
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Brooklyn Book Festival Bingo: [link]