Woman is sphinx. Woman has writ it.
If you understand her, never admit it.
----Ogden Nash
ouch!
Okay, so I'm a sucker (but only a small one) for internet quasi-analytical quizzes, but this one actually hit the nail on the head in one way, anyway.
It's supposed to tell you about a book that suits your personality. According to the six rather weird questions that I answered, I am A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.
Now, the personality description isn't really much like me (I don't think!) -
Despite humble and perhaps literally small beginnings, you inspire faith in almost everyone you know. You are an agent of higher powers, and you manifest this fact in mysterious and loud ways. A sense of destiny pervades your every waking moment, and you prepare with great detail for destiny fulfilled. When you speak, IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS! - which more or less describes the character Owen Meany from this great book (which you'd have to read in order to understand what the heck that description is talking about. While it's true, I don't think it conveys the truth well to people who have yet to read the book.) Anyway, I hope I'm not too much like Owen Meany, who is one of those people you'd rather know than be.
Still, I read that book a couple of years ago now, and it was so cool. I had kind of forgotten about it recently but I'm going to go back and read it again. It was really not like any other book I've read.
Posted by tuggy at 02.28.04 14:11Great quiz, though terribly difficult to answer. I don't know whether I'm long-winded or concise. It really depends on my mood. I also don't like the negative connotation of long-winded that concise doesn't carry. If you're going to have one be negative, why couldn't the other one be "sullen" or something? Not an exact parallel, true, but I couldn't think of one...
Anyway, I was Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Reminds me once again that I need to read him soon. The description really wasn't me, though. I liked how they held up Odysseus as a paradigmatic example of one who sleeps with many women yet in his heart is still committed to but one. That's a part of the story that is certainly there in Homer, but isn't exactly the focus (at least in my reading of the work). Perhaps I should write a novel someday from Odysseus' perspective in which the primary struggle is his libido vs. his loyalty to Penelope. It might not be a good novel, but then again...
Posted by: Evan Donovan at 02.28.04 23:29That's a GREAT book to be, Evan! I'd be interested in reading the description of you based on Love In The Time of Cholera. And also, I would buy your book. And read it, too.
Posted by: Shaw at 03.04.04 10:10Like I said, haven't read it yet. As for the description, I don't think it's very accurate. Apparently I sleep around and live dangerously.
Posted by: Evan Donovan at 03.04.04 12:18Well, that's how I would describe you...oh wait no it wasn't you I was thinking of, Evan.
Posted by: tuggy at 03.04.04 15:39