How Smart Are You?
In Yan Zhang's "day" there are references to 13 classic works of literature, 10 Western and three Chinese. If you're as smart as your college degree says you are, name all 13 below and win—you guessed it—a stress relief massage from the Wuya Massage Spa valued at RMB144. You can find the article online here. Happy posting! I'll post the answers on Friday, March 7.
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Looks like we're supposed to post guesses here, so here goes:
- 12: Edgar Allen Poe: the Raven
- 12:03: Shui Hu Zhuan
- 12:05 Journey to the West
- 12:10: Herman Melville: Bartleby the Scrivener
- 12:30 F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
- 12:34 Herman Melville: Moby Dick
- 12:40: William Shakespeare: Macbeth
- 1:15 Homer: the Odyasey
- 1:20: 1001 Arabian Nights
- 1:55: Vladimir Nabakov: Lolita
- 2: JD Salinger: the Catcher in the Rye
- 2:05: Dante: Paradiso (the Divine Comedy)
- 2:10: Lao She: Rickshaw
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that was fun! great use of your mag and website!
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THE ANSWERS!
The Raven – by Edgar Allan Poe
水浒传, (translated by Pearl S. Buck as “All Men Are Brothers/Outlaws of the Marsh/Water Margin Chronicles)
Journey to the West
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
The Great Gatsby (Look at the last line)
Moby Dick (Baleno is a HK based clothing chain whose logo is a whale. Baleno is also Italian for whale. Add man with wooden peg and you can’t miss it!)
Macbeth (quoted lifted from Lady Macbeth)
The Odyssey (Scylla, the six headed she-monster and Charybdis, the whirlpool of doom)
The Inferno (In Canto I Dante finds a panther, a lion and a she-wolf blocking his path in succession. He is lead to the righteous path by the poet Virgil)
Lolita (In Chinese, a mule erecting a tower, literally is pronounced Luo2 Li4 Ta3, homonymous with the nickname of one Dolores Haze, a.k.a.)
Catcher in the Rye (Almost directly copied with “Fuwas are just okay” replacing “Fuck you”)
Paradiso (Beatrice Portinari, Dante’s muse, is his guide)
骆驼祥子aka Rickshaw Boy (recall that the story begins when the protagonist steals three camels amid confusion)
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Nice work, Limeng1979, YOU WIN!
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Awesome -- thanks! How do I claim my prize?
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Here are my answers to the quiz:
1) Midnight: Poe's "The Raven" 2) 12:03: Shui Hu Zhuan (Bandits of the Marsh) 3) 12:05: Journey to the West 4) 12:10 Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" 5) 12:30: Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" 6) 12：34 Melville's "Moby Dick" 7) 12:40 Shakespeare's "Macbeth" 8) 1:15: Homer's "The Odyssey" 9) 1:20: Dante's "Inferno" 10) 1:55 Nabokov's "Lolita" 11) 2:00 Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" 12） 2:05 Dante's "Paradiso" 13) 2:10 Lao She's "The Rickshaw"