Weather in literature quiz with Matthias Tomczak
BAMOS March 2017
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Weather in literature quiz with Matthias Tomczak
Welcome to the third in a BAMOS series of weather-related literature quizzes . Can you guess which book the passage on the right is from ?
The quote from our last issue came from The Mirror of the Sea first published in 1906 and the first of Joseph Conrad ’ s two autobiographical memoirs in which he describes his experiences at sea . The quote is from the chapter Rulers of East and West .
Again Tom Beer was the only person to correctly identify the quote . In his submission , he wrote : “ The writing style was that of Joseph Conrad but I could not recall reading anything of his about winds . I cheated and used Google to find that I was correct about the author , but had never before heard of The Mirror of the Sea , from which the quote comes .”
In which book would you find this quote ?
At sea nothing happens to the sea . Nothing happens to the sky . The sun comes up from the east and goes down to the west . The moon grows from a sickle to an arc lamp , and comes later and later until she is lost in the light as other things are lost in the darkness .
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