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[hobglobin]

Sounds like one of Superman's or Batman's enemies...Joker perhaps...so my guess is Bill Finger and Bob Kane: Batman

[casandra]

so how many guesses were those?..and you're missing the key point......

[Tabaluga]

I'll take another guess just for the hint: Homer- Ilias or Odyssey

[hobglobin]

and I chose Shakespeare: Othello

[casandra]

nope to both of you....a useful hint: timeline....

[hobglobin]

then of course: Gabriel García Márquez: Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
a great title btw

[casandra]

I read that and I don't remember anyone plotting revenge...but yup, a title that you definitely appreciate

[hobglobin]

casandra, on 18 January 2013 - 01:21 PM, said:

I read that and I don't remember anyone plotting revenge...but yup, a title that you definitely appreciate

I read it too and it might be a curse of someone in all that family bullying and affairs and it's a long timeline, but as I already guessed: your hint was only to mislead us

[casandra]

hobglobin, on 18 January 2013 - 01:23 PM, said:

casandra, on 18 January 2013 - 01:21 PM, said:

I read that and I don't remember anyone plotting revenge...but yup, a title that you definitely appreciate

I read it too and it might be a curse of someone in all that family bullying and affairs and it's a long timeline, but as I already guessed: your hint was only to mislead us

nope, no misleading of you guys...and another hint: you don't take the meaning of this timeline metaphorically....

[bob1]

Hmmm, someone who lives a very long time, could be the prophet from Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter MIller), but more likely to be Dracula by Bram Stoker.

[casandra]

bob1, on 18 January 2013 - 02:16 PM, said:

Hmmm, someone who lives a very long time, could be the prophet from Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter MIller), but more likely to be Dracula by Bram Stoker.

yup, it's the threat uttered by the Count when he was almost  caught by Van Helsing's anti-vampyre dreamteam as they went about 'consecrating' his earth boxes in London......so now it's your turn, bob1 (and please be gentle with us ....)

[bob1]

Depending on what is defined as classic literature I have two - neither particularly obscure hopefully...

First:

Quote

"His face was pale like clay and save for his eyes, mask-like. These eyes were set very close together, and were small, dark red, and of startling concentration."

Second, as people might consider the first too recent to be a classic:

Quote

"We are by kin of the clan of Geats, and Hygelac's own hearth-fellows"

[Tabaluga]

first one - Tolkien, Lord of the Rings ? Or Süskind, The Perfume ?


second one - no idea

[casandra]

second one is Beowulf (king of the Geats) although there are probably other classic lit referring to the Geats but I only know Beowulf...

first one- pale face with red eyes?....hmmm....fantasy/horror character or a drunk who only goes out at night?

Edited by casandra, 18 January 2013 - 09:26 PM.

[Tabaluga]

Come to think of it, the first one might also fit a vampire. Twilight by Meyer? (Not a classic for me, but then bob1 was also not so sure if it's a classic, and he said it's a recent work)