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That sounds like Narnia, though I wouldn't want to say which one. Prince Caspian, maybe?

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Yes!

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I've tried to find something ungoogleable, but there's too many dodgy Russian sites with full (if horribly formatted) texts of pretty much any book you care to think of So, I'll just have to rely on the honour system, and go with something fairly straightforward.

"So I can look at the picture above my desk, of the young officer in Cardigan's Hussars; tall, masterful, and roughly handsome I was in those days [...], and say it is the portrait of a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat, a thief, a coward - and, oh yes, a toady."

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No takers? Another clue, then: the first book in the series, from which the above quote comes, is primarily set in Afghanistan, while later books are set in Borneo, Madagascar, Russia, and China, among other places.

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I'm going to guess the Horatio Hornblower series even though I have no idea how a navy officer could end up in Afghanistan. The first book in the series was titled "The Happy Return" in the UK and was titled "Beat To Quarters" in the US.

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A good shot, and books I'd considered going with, but not the right answer, I'm afraid.

(Hornblower was in Russia in The Commodore, but I don't recall his ever visiting the other places I mentioned.)

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Then it must be "Flashman".

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It most certainly is! I was beginning to worry that no one here had read the books. (If you haven't, they're well worth it; well-researched history, splendidly thrilling (and often hilarious) predicaments. Just don't expect Flashy to be the most... sympathetic of protagonists.)

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"Normal?" she repeated. "Yesterday you fed me cake from Wonderland so we could ride your spider into a magical basement and fight a vampire."



That was from "Libriomancer" by Jim C. Hines.

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"From the lightning and the tempest,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the scourge of the earthquake,
O Lord, deliver us.
From plague, famine, and war,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the place of ground zero,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the rain of the cobalt,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the rain of the strontium,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the fall of the cesium,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the curse of the Fallout,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the begetting of monsters,
O Lord, deliver us.
From the curse of the Misborn,
O Lord deliver us."

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After reading this topic, I realized that I do not remember quotes from books or films at all. Only Google can help me restore my memory .. LOL

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ssmithterrry wrote:
After reading this topic, I realized that I do not remember quotes from books or films at all. Only Google can help me restore my memory .. LOL

I am just at the edge where you are. But strangely I know the answer to Logan's post, which is Walter Miller. Other than that reading the posts made me totally blank.

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Here's something I happened to have laying around.

'Maybe the cat dings Schrös.'
'Dings?'
'Rings like a bell.'
'Schrös?'
'Rather like shrews, I think.'

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averagemoe wrote:
Here's something I happened to have laying around.

'Maybe the cat dings Schrös.'
'Dings?'
'Rings like a bell.'
'Schrös?'
'Rather like shrews, I think.'

Why can't I find it in Google? Only printed in book?

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Just to be clear, the statement that I had it laying around was not part of the quote.

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Okay, I realize that the book that's from is just way too obscure. So I'm just going to give the point to whoever figures out what the dialogue is a contrived pun of.

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