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Book and Author 10 Questions +10 for each question (5 for book, 5 for author) +10 for all right

1)
There was only one _______ and that was _____X_____, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of ____X____ and let out a respectful whistle.

2)
Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to __X__ did not have a second opportunity on earth.

3)

The brown current ran swiftly out of the __X__, bearing us down towards the sea with twice the speed of our upward progress; and Kurtz's life was running swiftly, too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart into the sea of inexorable time.

4) John also laughed, but for another reason laughed for pure joy. 'O _____X______,' he repeated. 'O _X_ that has such people in it. Let's start at once.' 'You have a most peculiar way of talking sometimes,' said Bernard, staring at the young man in perplexed astonishment. 'And, anyhow, hadn't you better wait till you actually see the ____?'

5)

Do you know? when he died - and by the way he died the _______X______, in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the New York, New Haven and Hartford, going into Boston - when he died, hundreds of ________ and ______ were at his funeral. Things were sad on a lotta trains for months after that.

6)

The __X__ turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the __X__. But it was a beginning.

7) He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole ______, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: ___X___. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.

8)

... A __X__ - and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a __X__?' Then I read a malenky bit out loud in a sort of very high type preaching goloss: '- The attempt to impose upon a man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my swordpen-

9)

There was a big number over the door of the building. The number was __Y__. Before the Americans could go inside, their only English-speaking guard told them to memorize their simple address, in case they got lost in the big city. Their address was this: "____." ___ meant __X__. ___was good old __Y__.

10)
An auld drunkard, whom Begbie had been looking at, lurched up tae us, wine boatil in his hand. Loads ay them used this place tae bevvy and crash in. What yis up tae lads? __X__, eh? He sais, laughing uncontrollably at his ain fuckin wit.

Aye. Thats right, Begbie sais. Then under his breath: Fuckin auld cunt.
Ah well, ahll leave yis tae it. Keep up the __X___ mind! He staggered oaf, his rasping, drunkards cackles filling the desolate barn. Ah noticed that Begbie seemed strangely subdued and uncomfortable. He wis turned away fae us. It wis only then ah realised thit the auld wino wis Begbies faither.

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1)

There was only one _______ and that was _____X_____, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of ____X____ and let out a respectful whistle.

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2)

Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to __X__ did not have a second opportunity on earth.

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3)

The brown current ran swiftly out of the __X__, bearing us down towards the sea with twice the speed of our upward progress; and Kurtz's life was running swiftly, too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart into the sea of inexorable time.

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4)

John also laughed, but for another reason - laughed for pure joy. 'O __X__,' he repeated. 'O _X_ that has such people in it. Let's start at once.' 'You have a most peculiar way of talking sometimes,' said Bernard, staring at the young man in perplexed astonishment. 'And, anyhow, hadn't you better wait till you actually see the ____?'

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5)

Do you know? when he died - and by the way he died the _______X______, in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the New York, New Haven and Hartford, going into Boston - when he died, hundreds of ________ and ______ were at his funeral. Things were sad on a lotta trains for months after that

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6)

The __X__ turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the __X__. But it was a beginning.

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7)

He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: ___X___. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.

ANSWER

8)

... A __X__ - and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a __X__?' Then I read a malenky bit out loud in a sort of very high type preaching goloss: '- The attempt to impose upon a man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my swordpen-

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9)

There was a big number over the door of the building. The number was __Y__. Before the Americans could go inside, their only English-speaking guard told them to memorize their simple address, in case they got lost in the big city. Their address was this: "____." ___ meant __X__. ___was good old __Y__.

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10)
An auld drunkard, whom Begbie had been looking at, lurched up tae us, wine boatil in his hand. Loads ay them used this place tae bevvy and crash in. What yis up tae lads? __X__, eh? He sais, laughing uncontrollably at his ain fuckin wit. Aye. Thats right, Begbie sais. Then under his breath: Fuckin auld cunt.

Ah well, ahll leave yis tae it. Keep up the __X___ mind! He staggered oaf, his rasping, drunkards cackles filling the desolate barn. Ah noticed that Begbie seemed strangely subdued and uncomfortable. He wis turned away fae us.
It wis only then ah realised thit the auld wino wis Begbies faither.

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