For all the complaining about how difficult this round was, you guys still managed to skunk me.
kitoba wrote:
Sometimes I like to picture a field returning to nature after we leave it behind. One day soon, new grass will poke up through the dead flattened circles beneath where our tents now stand. The songs of birds and frogs will replace the harsh sound of Father's insistent patter. Even the trash we leave behind us will blow away or rot --or so I assume. I've never seen it happen.
Stan Cold's pick for
Geek Love, giving a point to kitoba. Correctly identified by inspiration.
Stan Cold wrote:
Daddy always said that blood is thicker than water.
Correctly identified by CCC, inspiration and kitoba.
Roberto Bolano wrote:
I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted, of course. There was no initiation ceremony. It was better that way
The Savage Detectives. Correctly identified by Stan Cold for two points.
kitoba wrote:
Mi verso al valiente agrada:
Mi verso, breve y sincero,
Es del vigor del acero
Con que se funde la espada.
My verses are solely for the brave
My verses are brief and sincere,
They sing with the strength of the steel
Found in the blade of a sword
Correctly identified by Stan Cold. Everybody else thought Stan Cold wrote this, perhaps due to his entry the first time I was dasher?
CCC wrote:
Nilbert Plymstock, eighteen-year-old scout leader, third grade, killed the engine and clambered down onto the damp, mossy ground.
Correctly identified by inspiration and kitoba.
inspiration wrote:
In the desert, the night is beginning.
The sands disgorge the heat of the day
and secrets and dead men's bones.
Everything is beginning in the black star-spattered sky.
Your chains are iron and your boots are iron
and your blood is iron and your gun is iron.
First the ore and then the dark red rust.
Everything is beginning in the deep burrows of the earth.
With every step you begin a new journey.
At every meal you begin a new hunger.
In the desert, the day is beginning.
Soon you will begin to take your last breath.
- from the journal of Javier Acasta Gutierrez
CCC's pick for The Savage Detectives, giving inspiration a point. Correctly identified kitoba and Stan Cold.
inspiration wrote:
"Pistachio boogers," said Jamie, and we both giggled again.
CCC and kitoba both picked this for Geek Love, giving inspiration two points.
Katherine Dunn wrote:
"When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing. 'Spread your lips, sweet Lil,' they'd cluck, 'and show us your choppers!'"
Correctly identified as the opening of Geek Love by inspiration for two points.
Stan Cold wrote:
When I was seventeen, I had no idea that poets had gangs.
Correctly identified by: nobody.
CCC wrote:
We were good friends.
No. That's not true. I'm saying that because I'm sentimental. I didn't have any friends outside my family.
Both inspiration and kitoba picked this for The Savage Detectives, giving 2 points to CCC. Correctly identified by Stan Cold.
inspiration was the big winner this round with six points: 2 for correctly identifying Geek Love, threepoints for fooling kitoba once and CCC twice, and a point for correctly identifying the authors of three of the remaining six false openings.
Stan Cold earned three points this round: 2 for correctly identifying The Savage Detectives, plus a point for correctly identifying the authors of half the false entries.
CCC earns two points this round for getting both inspiration and kitoba to vote for one of his openings.
kitoba comes in fourth, earning one point for correctly identifying half of the false entries.
Here are the standings:
Quote:
Order of Dashers: inspiration, CCC, Llefser, kitoba, Stan Cold
Scoreboard:
inspiration 11
Llefser 11
Stan Cold 8
CCC 5
kitoba 5
Next dasher: kitoba
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