Literary Quiz.

[theweaselking]

The challenge: Find the best way to guarantee your own stylish, certain, absolute destruction in just a few more pages.

The restrictions: Must not be an abjectly or deliberately suicidal act. The character must be doing this thinking it's going to succeed and *not* expecting his death, even if the reader is.

My entry: In the Tom Clancy novel "Rainbow Six", uttering the phrase: "This is Patrick Casey. We have seized the Hereford Community Hospital. We are currently holding as hostages Dr Chavez and Nurse Clark, plus numerous others."

(And yes, those would be Nurse Sandy Clark, wife of John Clark, and Doctor Patricia Chavez, daughter of John Clark and wife of Domingo Chavez, for those of you with your Clancy Scorecards playing from home. For those of you without said scorecards, imagine that the IRA have just kidnapped the families of Michael Corleone and James Bond.)

Comments

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Utter a phrase with the essential meaning "We can't stop now for a lot of silly native superstitions!" Forge ahead.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

Fantasy: Essentially, "now that we've almost killed his wife and have killed his senechal's daughter, let's kidnap Belgarion's infant son."

For those of you who don't read David Eddings, Belgarion is the King of Riva, Overlord of the West, Bearer of the Orb of Aldur, the Child of Light, and the Godslayer.

That is a world of trouble. It's always fun thinking of just how bad the bad guys are going to get it.

Good example with the Clark and Chavez thing, BTW.

[rivetkitten.livejournal.com]

Oh so true! (Hi, here from metaquotes. *waves*) I need to read that series again....

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Do you mind if I post that in metaquotes?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I don't mind. Toss me a link to the metaquotes post when it's up.

[chartophile.livejournal.com]

(here from meta qutoes)

I remember reading that and thinking, "Boy, they have no idea just how screweed they really are."

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

In any Space Opera: "Why should we be afraid of a few piffling little fighter craft? This battle station has no weaknesses and in a few short minutes we will crush our opponents thoroughly. Onward!"