Talk:Some Buried Caesar - Revision history

Bob.byrd: I'll have to look it up: i copied this from my eBook

2011-10-07T19:51:27Z

I'll have to look it up: i copied this from my eBook

Faterson: /* chapter 15, page 191 */

2008-12-01T09:08:47Z

chapter 15, page 191

76.235.194.176: /* chapter 15, page 191 */

2008-12-01T00:24:07Z

chapter 15, page 191

Faterson at 11:42, 9 August 2007

2007-08-09T11:42:21Z

Faterson at 10:55, 8 July 2007

2007-07-08T10:55:11Z

Faterson at 23:22, 6 July 2007

2007-07-06T23:22:53Z

Faterson at 18:40, 6 July 2007

2007-07-06T18:40:34Z

Faterson: /* A lesson in lying from Archie Goodwin */

2007-07-05T21:08:15Z

A lesson in lying from Archie Goodwin

Faterson: /* chapter 6 (Lily Rowan 'peels' Archie Goodwin in a Methodist tent) */

2007-07-05T21:06:05Z

chapter 6 (Lily Rowan 'peels' Archie Goodwin in a Methodist tent)

Faterson: /* Lily Rowan 'peels' Archie Goodwin in a Methodist tent */

2007-07-05T21:05:45Z

Lily Rowan 'peels' Archie Goodwin in a Methodist tent

← Older revision		Revision as of 19:51, 7 October 2011
Line 129:		Line 129:

	--[[User:Faterson\|Faterson]]		--[[User:Faterson\|Faterson]]
		+
		+	== I'll have to look it up: i copied this from my eBook ==
		+
		+	When Archie and Wolfe are walking across the pasture after leaving the disabled car and Dave is shouting in the distance and waving a shotgun: I said, "Hold on a minute. If that's a bughouse and that's one of the inmates, he may take us for woodchucks or wild turkeys - "

@@ Line 99: / Line 99: @@
 == chapter 15, page&nbsp;191 ==
-<span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; "Preposterous." Wolfe shook his head at him. "In the midst of the most difficult and chaotic problems, I never missed a meal. A stomach too long empty thins the blood and disconcerts the brain. – Archie, order a portion of the fricasee. – For God's sake, sir, sit down." &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
+<span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; "Preposterous." Wolfe shook his head at him. "In the midst of the most difficult and chaotic problems, I never missed a meal. A stomach too long empty thins the blood and disconcerts the brain. – Archie, order a portion of the fricassee. – For God's sake, sir, sit down." &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 --[[User:Faterson|Faterson]]

@@ Line 99: / Line 99: @@
 == chapter 15, page&nbsp;191 ==
-<span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; "Preposterous." Wolfe shook his head at him. "In the midst of the most difficult and chaotic problems, I never missed a meal. A stomach too long empty thins the blood and disconcerts the brain. – Archie, order a portion of the fricatesse. – For God's sake, sir, sit down." &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
+<span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; "Preposterous." Wolfe shook his head at him. "In the midst of the most difficult and chaotic problems, I never missed a meal. A stomach too long empty thins the blood and disconcerts the brain. – Archie, order a portion of the fricasee. – For God's sake, sir, sit down." &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 --[[User:Faterson|Faterson]]

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-[[Category:Rex Stout novels]][[Category:Nero Wolfe mysteries]][[Category:Nero Wolfe novels]]
+[[Category:Rex Stout novels|Some Buried Caesar]][[Category:Nero Wolfe mysteries|Some Buried Caesar]][[Category:Nero Wolfe novels|Some Buried Caesar]]
 {{TOC-right}}
 <div style="font-size:1.25em; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1.0em; font-style: italic">by '''[[Rex Stout]]''' (1939)</div>

@@ Line 19: / Line 19: @@
 I called to him, "Okay, boss?"
-He called back, "Tell that man with the gun I want to speak to him when I get out of here! Tell him to get someone to pen that bull!" <span class="par">¶</span> <ref>The scene with the bull, the pasture and Nero Wolfe standing motionlessly in the middle of the pasture is one of the funniest and most memorable in the entire [[:Category:Nero Wolfe mysteries|Nero Wolfe Corpus]]. ''[[User:Faterson|[Faterson]]]''</ref>
+He called back, "Tell that man with the gun I want to speak to him when I get out of here! Tell him to get someone to pen that bull!" &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; <ref>The scene with the bull, the pasture and Nero Wolfe standing motionlessly in the middle of the pasture is one of the funniest and most memorable in the entire [[:Category:Nero Wolfe mysteries|Nero Wolfe Corpus]]. ''[[User:Faterson|[Faterson]]]''</ref>
 --[[User:Faterson|Faterson]]
 == Archie Goodwin in&nbsp;chapter&nbsp;3, page&nbsp;47 ==
-"<span class="in">[...]</span> No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket, or at least had been fooling around with timetables. <span class="in">[...]</span>" <span class="par">¶</span>
+"<span class="in">[...]</span> No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket, or at least had been fooling around with timetables. <span class="in">[...]</span>" &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 --[[User:Faterson|Faterson]]
@@ Line 37: / Line 37: @@
 "Sure. That is, you can have lunch with me. Why not? I think you're amusing. You'll do fine to pass away some time, just a pretty toy to be enjoyed for an idle moment and then tossed away. That's all any woman can ever mean to me, because all the serious side of me is concentrated on my career. I want to be a policeman."
-"Goodness. I suppose we ought te be grateful that you're willing to bother with us at all. <span class="in">[...]</span>" <span class="par">¶</span>
+"Goodness. I suppose we ought te be grateful that you're willing to bother with us at all. <span class="in">[...]</span>" &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 --[[User:Faterson|Faterson]]
@@ Line 43: / Line 43: @@
 == Archie Goodwin ib., page&nbsp;64 ==
-<span class="par">¶</span> "Much obliged for nothing. Phooey. You’re accustomed to feeling pleased because you’re Nero Wolfe, aren’t you? All right, on my modest scale I permit myself a similar feeling about Archie Goodwin. When did you ever give me an errand that you seriously expected me to perform and I didn’t perform it? I’ve got a right to expect that when Archie Goodwin is told to watch a pasture and see that nothing happens to a bull, nothing will happen. And you tell me that nothing happened to the bull, the bull’s all right, he just killed a man... what do you call that kind of suds?" <span class="par">¶</span>
+<span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; "Much obliged for nothing. Phooey. You’re accustomed to feeling pleased because you’re Nero Wolfe, aren’t you? All right, on my modest scale I permit myself a similar feeling about Archie Goodwin. When did you ever give me an errand that you seriously expected me to perform and I didn’t perform it? I’ve got a right to expect that when Archie Goodwin is told to watch a pasture and see that nothing happens to a bull, nothing will happen. And you tell me that nothing happened to the bull, the bull’s all right, he just killed a man... what do you call that kind of suds?" &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 == Lily Rowan & Archie&nbsp;Goodwin in&nbsp;chapter&nbsp;6, page&nbsp;79 ==
 "<span class="in">[...]</span> you begin by telling me I have legs like an antelope."
-I shrugged. "Go ahead and nag. <span class="in">[...]</span>" <span class="par">¶</span>
+I shrugged. "Go ahead and nag. <span class="in">[...]</span>" &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 --[[User:Faterson|Faterson]]
@@ Line 57: / Line 57: @@
 == ib., page 83 ==
-<span class="par">¶</span> "Did you and Clyde get engaged?"
+<span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; "Did you and Clyde get engaged?"
 "No." She <span class="in">[Lily Rowan]</span> looked at me, and the corner of her mouth turned up, and I saw her breasts gently putting the weave of the jersey to more strain as she breathed a deep one. "No, Escamillo." She peeled her potato<ref>potato = Archie Goodwin (see foregoing quotation)</ref> again. "I don't suppose I'll marry. Because marriage is really nothing but an economic arrangement, and I'm lucky because I don't have to let the economic part enter into it. The man would be lucky too – I mean if a man attracted me and I attracted him."
@@ Line 66: / Line 66: @@
 == ib., page 85 ==
-<span class="par">¶</span> Lily said in a tone of real disappointment without any petulance that I could detect, "I had supposed we would spend the afternoon together, watching the races and riding on the merry-go-round and throwing balls at things..."
+<span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; Lily said in a tone of real disappointment without any petulance that I could detect, "I had supposed we would spend the afternoon together, watching the races and riding on the merry-go-round and throwing balls at things..."
-"Not ever," I said firmly. "Not the afternoon. Whatever the future may have in store for us, whatever may betide, I work afternoons. Understand once and for all that I am a workingman and I only play with toys at odd moments. I am working when you would least expect it. Throughout this delightful lunch with you, I have been working and earning money." <span class="par">¶</span>
+"Not ever," I said firmly. "Not the afternoon. Whatever the future may have in store for us, whatever may betide, I work afternoons. Understand once and for all that I am a workingman and I only play with toys at odd moments. I am working when you would least expect it. Throughout this delightful lunch with you, I have been working and earning money." &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 --[[User:Faterson|Faterson]]
 == chapter 8, page 105 ==
-<span class="par">¶</span> "That's your guess."
+<span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; "That's your guess."
-<span class="in">[Nero Wolfe:]</span> "It's my opinion. I am careful with my opinions, sir; they are my bread and butter and the main source of my self-esteem." <span class="par">¶</span>
+<span class="in">[Nero Wolfe:]</span> "It's my opinion. I am careful with my opinions, sir; they are my bread and butter and the main source of my self-esteem." &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 --[[User:Faterson|Faterson]]
@@ Line 84: / Line 84: @@
 == chapter 11, page 149f ==
-<span class="par">¶</span> "Go climb a tree," she <span class="in">[Lily Rowan]</span> said, and got her arm through mine, and we went to the house that way, though it is a form of intimacy I don't care for, since I have a tendency to fight shy of bonds. Nor did I respond to the melting quality that seemed to be creeping into her tone, but kept strictly to persiflage. <span class="par">¶</span>
+<span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; "Go climb a tree," she <span class="in">[Lily Rowan]</span> said, and got her arm through mine, and we went to the house that way, though it is a form of intimacy I don't care for, since I have a tendency to fight shy of bonds. Nor did I respond to the melting quality that seemed to be creeping into her tone, but kept strictly to persiflage. &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 --[[User:Faterson|Faterson]]
 == Nero Wolfe in&nbsp;chapter&nbsp;12, page&nbsp;158 ==
-"It's my one form of prowess. I do talk. <span class="in">[...]</span>" <span class="par">¶</span>
+"It's my one form of prowess. I do talk. <span class="in">[...]</span>" &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 --[[User:Faterson|Faterson]]
 == Nero Wolfe in&nbsp;chapter&nbsp;14, page&nbsp;180 ==
-<span class="par">¶</span> "I rarely dislike women, and never like them, Miss Rowan. <span class="in">[...]</span>" <span class="par">¶</span>
+<span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; "I rarely dislike women, and never like them, Miss Rowan. <span class="in">[...]</span>" &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 --[[User:Faterson|Faterson]]
 == chapter 15, page&nbsp;191 ==
-<span class="par">¶</span> "Preposterous." Wolfe shook his head at him. "In the midst of the most difficult and chaotic problems, I never missed a meal. A stomach too long empty thins the blood and disconcerts the brain. – Archie, order a portion of the fricatesse. – For God's sake, sir, sit down." <span class="par">¶</span>
+<span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; "Preposterous." Wolfe shook his head at him. "In the midst of the most difficult and chaotic problems, I never missed a meal. A stomach too long empty thins the blood and disconcerts the brain. – Archie, order a portion of the fricatesse. – For God's sake, sir, sit down." &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 --[[User:Faterson|Faterson]]
 == Nero Wolfe ib. ==
-"<span class="in">[...]</span> My only serious fault is lethargy, and I tolerate Mr. Goodwin, and even pay him, to help me circumvent it. <span class="in">[...]</span>" <span class="par">¶</span>
+"<span class="in">[...]</span> My only serious fault is lethargy, and I tolerate Mr. Goodwin, and even pay him, to help me circumvent it. <span class="in">[...]</span>" &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 --[[User:Faterson|Faterson]]
@@ Line 114: / Line 114: @@
 == chapter&nbsp;18, page&nbsp;241 ==
-<span class="par">¶</span> "Will you give me your word of honor that you'll do just what you've agreed to do, with no reservations and no quibbling?"
+<span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; "Will you give me your word of honor that you'll do just what you've agreed to do, with no reservations and no quibbling?"
-<span class="in">[Nero Wolfe:]</span> "Not a word of honor. I don't like the phrase. The word 'honor' has been employed too much by objectionable people and has been badly soiled. I give you my word. <span class="in">[...]</span>" <span class="par">¶</span>
+<span class="in">[Nero Wolfe:]</span> "Not a word of honor. I don't like the phrase. The word 'honor' has been employed too much by objectionable people and has been badly soiled. I give you my word. <span class="in">[...]</span>" &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 --[[User:Faterson|Faterson]]
 == chapter&nbsp;19, page&nbsp;246 ==
-<span class="par">¶</span> Wolfe leaned back and surveyed him. "One test of intelligence," he said patiently, "is the ability to welcome a singularity when the need arises, without excessive strain. Strict rules are universal. We all have a rule not to go on the street before clothing ourselves, but if the house is on fire we violate it. <span class="in">[...]</span>" <span class="par">¶</span>
+<span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; Wolfe leaned back and surveyed him. "One test of intelligence," he said patiently, "is the ability to welcome a singularity when the need arises, without excessive strain. Strict rules are universal. We all have a rule not to go on the street before clothing ourselves, but if the house is on fire we violate it. <span class="in">[...]</span>" &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 --[[User:Faterson|Faterson]]
 == Archie Goodwin talking to Lily&nbsp;Rowan on&nbsp;the&nbsp;phone in&nbsp;chapter&nbsp;21, page&nbsp;273 ==
-<span class="par">¶</span> "Stop! Stop and take a breath. Weddings are out. They're barbaric vestiges of... of barbarism. I doubt if I'd go to my own." <span class="par">¶</span>
+<span class="par">¶</span>&nbsp; "Stop! Stop and take a breath. Weddings are out. They're barbaric vestiges of... of barbarism. I doubt if I'd go to my own." &nbsp;<span class="par">¶</span>
 --[[User:Faterson|Faterson]]

@@ Line 7: / Line 7: @@
 <div style="padding-bottom: 2.0em; padding-top: 0.5em"><span style="font-size:1.2em">'''It's so simple!'''</span> Just press the tab with '''[http://avenarius.sk/index.php?title=Quotations:Some_Buried_Caesar&action=edit&section=new the <span style="font-size: 1.5em">+</span> sign]''' at the top of this webpage, and off you go!</div>
-<div style="font-size:1.4em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0.0em; padding-top: 0.5em">Want to Comment on This Work or Quotations from it?</div>
+<div style="font-size:1.4em; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 0.0em; padding-top: 0.5em">Want to Comment on This Work or Quotations from it? &nbsp; <span style="font-size:0.65em">([http://avenarius.sk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=452 forum&nbsp;link])</span></div>
 <div style="padding-bottom: 1.0em; padding-top: 0.5em"><span style="font-size:1.25em">'''Post your feedback [http://avenarius.sk/forum/posting.php?mode=reply&t=452 HERE]''', '''or use [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Footnotes footnotes]''' directly within the body of the quotations listed below.</span></div>

@@ Line 11: / Line 11: @@
 <div style="padding-bottom: 1.0em; padding-top: 0.5em"><span style="font-size:1.25em">'''Post your feedback [http://avenarius.sk/forum/posting.php?mode=reply&t=452 HERE]''', '''or use [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Footnotes footnotes]''' directly within the body of the quotations listed below.</span></div>
-== Archie Goodwin in chapter 4 ==
+<div class="comments">Comments</div>
-<span class="par">¶</span> ‘Much obliged for nothing. Phooey. You’re accustomed to feeling pleased because you’re Nero Wolfe, aren’t you? All right, on my modest scale I permit myself a similar feeling about Archie Goodwin. When did you ever give me an errand that you seriously expected me to perform and I didn’t perform it? I’ve got a right to expect that when Archie Goodwin is told to watch a pasture and see that nothing happens to a bull, nothing will happen. And you tell me that nothing happened to the bull, the bull’s all right, he just killed a man ... what do you call that kind of suds?’ <span class="par">¶</span>
+== chapter 1, page 8f <ref>Page references follow the 1994 Bantam Books Crime Line edition (The Rex Stout Library); the novel is 274 pages long in that edition.</ref> ==
-== chapter 6 (Lily Rowan 'peels' Archie Goodwin in&nbsp;a&nbsp;Methodist&nbsp;tent) ==
+I called to him, "Okay, boss?"
-‘He has no right to be talking about me. Anyway, not to you.’ Her eyes moved up me and over me, up from my chest over my face to the top of my head, and then slowly travelled down again. ‘Not to you, Escamillo,’ she said. I wanted to slap her, because her tone, and the look in her eyes going over me, made me feel like a potato she was peeling.
+He called back, "Tell that man with the gun I want to speak to him when I get out of here! Tell him to get someone to pen that bull!" <span class="par">¶</span> <ref>The scene with the bull, the pasture and Nero Wolfe standing motionlessly in the middle of the pasture is one of the funniest and most memorable in the entire [[:Category:Nero Wolfe mysteries|Nero Wolfe Corpus]]. ''[[User:Faterson|[Faterson]]]''</ref>
-== chapter 10 (a lesson in lying from Archie Goodwin) ==
+--[[User:Faterson|Faterson]]
 Wolfe has taught me that one of the most important requirements for successful lying is relaxed vocal cords and throat muscles; otherwise you are forced to put on extra pressure to push the lie through, and the result is that you talk faster and raise the pitch and the blood shows in your face.

@@ Line 15: / Line 15: @@
 <span class="par">¶</span> ‘Much obliged for nothing. Phooey. You’re accustomed to feeling pleased because you’re Nero Wolfe, aren’t you? All right, on my modest scale I permit myself a similar feeling about Archie Goodwin. When did you ever give me an errand that you seriously expected me to perform and I didn’t perform it? I’ve got a right to expect that when Archie Goodwin is told to watch a pasture and see that nothing happens to a bull, nothing will happen. And you tell me that nothing happened to the bull, the bull’s all right, he just killed a man ... what do you call that kind of suds?’ <span class="par">¶</span>
-== Lily Rowan 'peels' Archie Goodwin in a Methodist tent ==
+== chapter 6 (Lily Rowan 'peels' Archie Goodwin in a Methodist tent) ==
-‘He has no right to be talking about me. Anyway, not to you.’ Her eyes moved up me and over me, up from my chest over my face to the top of my head, and then slowly travelled down again. ‘Not to you, Escamillo,’ she said. I wanted to slap her, because her tone, and the look in her eyes going over me, made me feel like a potato she was peeling. (Chapter 6)
+‘He has no right to be talking about me. Anyway, not to you.’ Her eyes moved up me and over me, up from my chest over my face to the top of my head, and then slowly travelled down again. ‘Not to you, Escamillo,’ she said. I wanted to slap her, because her tone, and the look in her eyes going over me, made me feel like a potato she was peeling.
 == A lesson in lying from Archie Goodwin ==
 Wolfe has taught me that one of the most important requirements for successful lying is relaxed vocal cords and throat muscles; otherwise you are forced to put extra pressure to push the lie through, and the result is that you talk faster and raise the pitch and the blood shows in your face. (Chapter 10)