megan's challenge

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Time for a contest! Remember our discussion about the quote from Howl's Moving Castle that's in both The Thief and King of Attolia? And the ring from Eagle of the Ninth that shows up on Gen's thumb in The Thief?

Megan asked me to post this for all.

Have you found the Rosemary Sutcliff quote in King of Attolia?

She gave us one hint and a great motivator:

"not eagle of the ninth. tell fabricalchemist
to start looking. i'll send a signed copy of the king to the
first person who finds it."

Edit: Find the exact quote and post it here. No emails!

Pull out your Sutcliffs and read!

Comments

Re: quote corrections

[rowana.livejournal.com]

Oddness on top of oddness, I've found that my two editions of the same Sutcliff book are slightly different. Still, any of you who have read the quote will know that I took the reference to the Eagles and the Gladiator school out of the middle of the quote and inserted something else. Why the measurements of the item in question are not only reversed but changed between one edition and the next . . . I don't know.

:( I still don't get it.

But the mailing costs of a book to the UK would be awful anyway. :) Anyone else got it? *goes to try to hunt down a sentance with an a reference to an item including measurements*

do i need to pacify grumpy fans for a poorly thought out contest?

This fan is already perfectly happy with actually talking to the author of the book in question. :)

Re: quote corrections

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

We're not grumpy. Right?

Ro, could it be that part of Frontier Wolf you talked about? I haven't read that one.

Re: quote corrections

[rowana.livejournal.com]

The two inches being enough bit? *goes to check*

Re: quote corrections

[empmai.livejournal.com]

I didn't get it either. I don't remeber any school in KoA gues that means I have to go read it again :)

do i need to pacify grumpy fans for a poorly thought out contest?

Never, it was a fab contest - it found me a new author to read

Re: quote corrections

[(Anonymous)]

So can I confess to seriously considering NOT telling you that the quote wasn't word for word? If I hadn't told you, you could have gone YEARS and read EVERY single Sutcliff book, but I was starting feel like the loony who shot John Lennon because he wanted more peope to read Salinger. The reference to the Eagles and the Gladiator school is what I took *out* of the Sutcliff quote, so you won't find those references in KoA. I had to insert something else to make the Sutcliff reference fit seamlessly into my text. Next book, I will make the quote an entire paragraph long and no doubt be arrested for plagiarism. I do love Sutcliff.

`megan

Re: quote corrections

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Yes, I believe I'm hooked now, too (she said as she looked at Knight's Fee just arrived via interlibrary loan).

Not one library around here has Horse Lord so I haven't read it. It's a shame, but I believe it's back in print.