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The Writing Life October 17 2010 10/17/2010 6:28:27 PM
The Writing Life October 17
Here’s today’s little quiz—a self-check for how well you remember what you’ve read and where you’ve read (or heard it). Don’t peek at the answers till the end!
Who said:
1. “Our senses seek to affirm, not to know.”
a) Colette
b) The Marquis de Sade
c) George Gordon, Lord Byron
2. “Altruism is the mark of a superior being.”
a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Abraham Lincoln
c) Bill Gates
d) Aristotle
3. “The lowest stage a society can reach is when its leaders are chosen by wealth and not by their ability.”
a) John F. Kennedy
b) Abraham Lincoln
c) Mario Cuomo
d) Plato
4. “By knowing one reaches belief. By doing one gains conviction. When you know, dare.”
a) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) Jean Paul Sartre
c) Paul Gauguin
5. “Sound skepticism is the necessary condition for the discovery of truth.”
a) Albert Einstein
b) Thomas Edison
c) Nicolas Tesla
d) Socrates
6. “Love is one thing, knowledge another.”
a) Marcel Proust
b) Aleister Crowley
c) Samuel Johnson
d) The Marquis de Sade
The answer to ALL the above is “Luxor 2” a video game created by Mumbo-Jumbo in 2006.
Who says computer play is mere fluff? Hah, they’re wrong!
See what happens when we take ourselves too seriously?
Moral: Don’t forget to play or add some whimsy to your writing; don’t be afraid to stray from your outlines.
