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Just a bit of silliness, really, (the verse that is, not reading itself without which…).
Points will be awarded for anyone who can recognise the books from the (sometimes slightly obscure) precis. There are ten points up for grabs…but no prizes other than self-satisfaction!
I lost myself Between the sheets Lived each page and Every beat, I was the lover on the moor The killer on the shore, Sat in a garret wracked with shame Keeping secrets on a train, A man on trial without a charge The girl both small and large, The man with shadow never seen A woman turning green, My stories told in Tarot cards Where dreams collide and play, I lost myself Between the sheets, And found myself Within the words. Answers (for those interested) on Monday.
chrisnelson61 
We become, all the, characters we read, through reading, we experience, the, many possibilities of our lives, that wouldn’t, normally be, available for us to, consider.
This is indeed true. Thanks for such a great comment.
Sounds like fun!
Cheers, Ogden. Seemed like it until I started trying to sum up books in one line!
Well its a good way to jump off for some other things!
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This is great, Chris, and you have us slightly bemused. We see Wuthering Heights, The Stranger/The Outsider, Crime and Punishment, possibly Strangers On A Train or Murder On The Orient Express, The Trial, Alice In Wonderland, Dracula, The Hanged Man but other than that we are stuck!
Firstly thanks to both of you for running with this – I’m genuinely thrilled that it piqued your interest. This seemed like a good idea at the time (I do like a good puzzle or quiz) but I soon began to realise that trying to capture the essence of a novel in one line was pretty near impossible, and does assume that the other person has some degree of familiarity with it…SO…congratulations you have identified FIVE correctly (Wuthering Heights, The Stranger/The Outsider, Crime and Punishment, The Trial and Alice). I’ll post the answers tomorrow- you might be interested in checked the other books out if you are not familiar with them. Thanks alot to both of you.
I’m looking forward to seeing the list, Chris. And I’m intrigued as to what the other titles might be.
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Great piece, Chris. I might be wrong, but I sense several examples of existentialist writers in your list.
I wonder why! Thanks for taking an interest in this, Michael.
😊 I’ll be interested to discover how many I probably didn’t guess (i.e., most, but I am pretty certain on a few).
Being part of the great unwashed I recognized “the” “a” “and” and “man” as coming straight out of Jane Eyre. Mark R. above in the comments seems to be pretty much on the ball.
Thanks for getting involved with this, Bruce. A bit of fun, but much trickier than I thought to do! Sorry, no Jane Eyre…but Mark (and his wife) got five, so clearly some of my lines weren’t too fuzzy!