Tuesday, July 31, 2007
The Book Quiz
You're Alice's Adventures in Wonderland!
by Lewis Carroll
After stumbling down the wrong turn in life, you've had your mind
opened to a number of strange and curious things. As life grows curiouser and curiouser,
you have to ask yourself what's real and what's the picture of illusion. Little is coming
to your aid in discerning fantasy from fact, but the line between them is so blurry that
it's starting not to matter. Be careful around rabbit holes and those who smile to[o] much,
and just avoid hat shops altogether.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
I don't know quite what to make of this. I feel rather as if I'm living in the upside down world of Through The Looking Glass. I wonder what the wrong turn was. Maybe it was my post about the red hat and the purple dress.
From PJ's Pointless Blog. PJ got the link from others whom I'm too lazy to mention.
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"Watership Down" I could have dealt with, just, but "Mists of Avalon"??!
ReplyDeleteI got The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe:
ReplyDeleteSo, apparently, I'm pedantic, my metaphors are strained to the breaking point, and I have a rather muddled theology.
I got A Prayer for Owen Meany...I'm long-winded, for one thing, and believe in predestination.
ReplyDeleteI got Watership Down, Prayer for Meany, and Joyce's Ulysses, depending on which personality I was wearing at the time.
ReplyDeleteYer only supposed to have one? How dull.
I came up as "Watership Down." How accurate do you think this may be? I guess there could have been worse fates.
ReplyDeleteHighly inaccurate, Boocat. Each stage of the questionnaire hinges on polar opposite choices, with no allowance for a nuanced reply. In almost every case I was either uncomfortable with both choices or occupied a point between the two. As to the books - clichés or, in some cases flat-out silly.
ReplyDeleteI keep getting Owen Meany. I like Owen Meany but......
ReplyDeleteMuch more important, please everyone and go read Boocat's latest pieces. I can say nothing more. I am still and quiet and must let them sink in before I hurry off to work.
What a strange group! I see there are no other Alices here.
ReplyDeleteAs to the books - clichés or, in some cases flat-out silly.
Lapin, whatever you say, the test is pure science and quite accurate. You just don't like your category, and therefore you disparage the whole test.
Now I'll go read Boocat.
Having used naughty language once already this week on this site, I will remain silent.
ReplyDeleteLapin, yes. Your allowance for naughtiness is spent.
ReplyDeleteSiddhartha here... I would have thought it would be CHAMPION DOG PRINCE TOM
ReplyDeleteWell, I've taken the quiz twice now and come up with the same answer: Prufrock - do I dare to eat a peach?
ReplyDeleteClumber, maybe that book wasn't on the list.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Wiki, "Siddhartha" means "he who has attained his goals" or "he who is victorious." Sounds just like you, you old dog.
Sharecropper, I'd stay away from the peaches, if I were you.
Yeah, more peaches for the strange group that way.
ReplyDeleteFlying to Arkansas Saturday, Mimi; hospice is now involved, so this may be the last visit before going back for mama's funeral. Back Wednesday: prayers certainly needed. Thanks for doing what you do.
Johnieb, I will pray for you and your mama and your family. I'm sure others will join me.
ReplyDeleteMay God bless you and all of your family, especially your mama, as she approaches her transition from this life. May the all-loving God hold her closely in his presence, keep her free from pain, and give her his peace.
When I answered (more or less) honestly, I got Loosely Based and the blurb said "While most people haven't heard of you, you're a really good and interesting person." That's true enough, and I haven't heard of the book, either -- but that's no surprise. The book turns out to be by the author if the quiz. Googling convinces me that I probably wouldn't finish the book.
ReplyDeleteChanging one answer (do I drink tea) gave me Prufrock which is really interesting as I "measure out my life in (weak, cold) coffee cups."
I did get to Alice though, by choosing "evens" and then going ahead. I wonder what the makers of the associate with "odds" and "evens."
Choosing a couple of other different paths led me to Ulysses and to David Copperfield, either of which matches me at times.
Also, for Lapin, I found a path to Watership Down.
I went back and re-did the test, altering only my final answer. This changed "my" book from "Mists of Avalon" ["You're obsessed with Camelot in all its forms, from Arthurian legend to the Kennedy administration ... you've focused on women (!) .... You always wished you could meet Jackie Kennedy" - gushing crap!] to, of all things, Joyce's "Ulysses"!
ReplyDeleteI do not share the quoted experience of Jennifer Weiner, author of "In Her Shoes" (what, one wonders, was in Ms. Weiner's shoes?) that "It's like it looked into my soul".
Allen, you are all of us rolled in one.
ReplyDeleteYou and Lapin are messing up my perfectly good scientific survey. What a recalcitrant bunch!
Mimi - A friend just mailed me MANY stupid answers to British quiz programmes. Here are three to cheer you up:
ReplyDeleteQ. Name a film starring Bob Hoskins that is also the name of a famous painting by Leonardo Da Vinci.
A. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Q. Johnny Weissmuller died on this day. Which jungle-swinging character clad only in a loincloth did he play?
A. Jesus.
Q. What was Gandhi's first name?
A. Goosey?
I came up as Hesse's "Siddhartha." Go figure.
ReplyDeleteLapin, that is cheery, just knowing that more people besides Bush and his lackeys give stupid (and funny) answers to questions. Bush's stupid answers are not funny.
ReplyDeleteRick, that is a compliment. As I told Clumber, "Siddhartha" means "he who has attained his goals" or "he who is victorious."
Hey, you're a victor, Rick. I know that must be true.
Siddartha is a wonderful and strange book -- sort of, to Buddhism, what The Last Temptation of Christ is to Christianity.
ReplyDeleteMark, I've never read it.
ReplyDeleteI tried it about a half dozen times taking different forks where I was not sure which answers I should pick and found diagnoses varying from Lolita (urk) to Siddhartha (much preferred!)
ReplyDeleteIn short, interesting, but to be taken with major doses of salt!
Alice
Alice, all of the online quizzes posted at this blog are in a spirit of fun. However, they generate more traffic and comments than serious posts. Go figure.
ReplyDeleteSometimes ya gotta give the folks what they want.
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ReplyDeleteMimi,
ReplyDeleteLike Last Temptation does with Christ it is a work that deals with the general "mythology" surrounding Siddartha, and reworks it into a personal narrative that is more concerned with the philosophical than theological aspects of the Buddha's journey to enlightenment. The focus on the journey of the individual is indicated by the use of the name "Siddartha" rather than Prince Siddartha's better-known epithet of "Buddha."
Mark, thanks for the information on Siddartha.
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