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from the desk of Robert, the occasional Waugh
You're Pale Fire!
by Vladimir Nabokov
You're really into poetry and the interpretation thereof. Along the road of life, you have had several identity crises which make it very unclear who you are, let alone how to interpret poetry. You probably came from a foreign country, but then again you seem foreign to everyone in ways unrelated to immigration. Most people think you're quite funny, but maybe you're just sick. Talking to you ends up being much like playing a round of the popular board game Clue.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
I figured the time had come to take one of those online personality tests that are all the rage across the blogosphere. This one asks only six questions but in a dynamic fashion, like those choose your own adventure novels I read back in high school.
Must remember to look for Pale Fire in the library tomorrow.
NOTE: Don't miss out on the new song that Mike Waugh uploaded, next entry down. It's one of the great, great oldies... Bob. Performed by Pinecone On Tent in a sort of honky tonk beat, you've probably never heard Bob quite like this.
Posted by Robert Waugh at May 5, 2004 07:05 PMSo I guess you're not Waiting for Godot after all.
I'm The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I guess that's okay, being that he is mentioned in Barefoot Wonder:
How I wish I was Huckleberry Finn, all over again.
Then, I answered the questions for what I thought my wife would answer. The answer was James Joyce's Ulysses, which might mean that even after a lifetime of studying, I will still find her utterly incomprehensible.
Posted by: Mike Waugh at May 5, 2004 10:04 PMI had Mother Waugh take the Book quiz. She came up as Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. Her favorite part of the description reads thusly: "People often have a hard time understanding you, but they have some vague sense that you must be brilliant anyway."
Mom guessed at Jimmy's answers and came up with the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary. Her response: "Well, they're always coming out with new editions with new words in it."
Of course, she was just telling me about some monomolies that sprang up on her work computer.
Posted by: Robert, Waugh the Younger at May 6, 2004 05:51 PMI'm Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, sounds fishy.
Posted by: damen at May 7, 2004 10:03 PMGlancing at the online text of Siddhartha, I'd say that sounds about right:
He already knew how to speak the Om silently, the word of words, to speak it silently into himself while inhaling, to speak it silently out of himself while exhaling, with all the concentration of his soul, the forehead surrounded by the glow of the clear-thinking spirit.Posted by: Robert, Waugh the Younger at May 8, 2004 05:26 AM
Then Chairity and I took the "Which Country are You" test. They hit the nail on the head because they said I was Costa Rica (see my bookshelf). Chairity was Iceland.
Posted by: Mike Waugh at May 9, 2004 09:54 AM