James Joyce's Refrigerator

The words are from a cartoon that was featured in a long-ago issue of The New Yorker magazine. I first saw it referenced in the biography of Joseph Campbell, "A Fire in the Mind," by Stephen and Robin Larsen. Joseph Campbell used to keep a folder of "mythic cartoons" that he found funny, and this was one of them. I thought it was one of the funniest bits I'd ever seen.

James Joyce's Refrigerator

TO DO

1) Call Bank

2) Dry Cleaner

3) Forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

4) Call Mom

That one is always good for a laugh! Here it is:

http://www.walkingraven.com/jjfridge.gif

I don't get it. lol :)

Now this would make a great game. Four fridge points from your favourite writer. Here are mine for Dostoevsky.

1. fix heating.
2. see Andre Philipovitch about that loan.
3. describe the illusory fractured self of the marginal city dweller wrestling with problems of conscience and the foregrounded consciousness
4. trim beard

TcM, no one can top that - you effectively shut down the thread!

huh, really? Come on people!

Okay, I'll try...but I love Dostoevsky too....

David Foster Wallace

1. write minimalist novel about happy folks
2. send "Errata Grammatica Treatise" covering grammatical, syntactical -- all things-ical -- & glaring English-usage errors found in William Strunk & E.B. White's, "The Elements of Style," to their publisher pronto alerting said publisher of the profundity of errors & inconsistencies for must-amendments in impending future editions if they want the damn forty-seven page introduction from me
a. it's nauseated, not "nauseous"
b. the proper triple use of colons in single sentences sans parentheses; a brief & hideous tangenital how-to exercise.
c. the proper quadruple use of colons in single sentences including parentheticals; a definitively fun exercise I know they'll definitely do again until they get it right if they want that A.
d. why don't my students just get this stuff anyway?
3. wash bandanna
4. care about everything and more infinitely less

oh Bravo! *loud applause *

tomcatMurr, re #6 -- HAH! That's great. :)

How about Nabokov?

1. repair butterfly net
2. finish notes on Kafka lecture
3. pick up birthday gift for that bizarre little girl (what's her name? Blaze? Glaze?) who lives down the block...
4. register Vera's handgun

re # 1 --

Albert Camus' list might be rather similar, don't you think?

1. Pick up cough medicine
2. Return library books
3. Formulate intellectual stance as regards the complete absurdity of the human condition
4. Call Mother

;)

I like those, Fullmoonblue!

Here's one for Tolstoy:

1. Beget
2. Educate my peasants
3. refute the view that history is the operations of great men, and that humanity's capacity to control history is impossible
4. More begetting

How about Sylvia Plath...?

1. Pay the gas bill
2. Dye hair red
3. Rise from the ashes
4. Call Daddy

haha oh you are wicked.

Nietzsche:

1. Write to sis
2. Deposit pension check
3. Kill God
4. Brush mustache

oh well done!!! * wild applause*

now come on #14, give it a go!

Hahaha! * loud applause with whistling from the galleries*

Calvino:

1) If she loves me, pluck roses from the garden, if she loves me not
2) salami in the fridge, serve with
3) cat litter on
4) new plates arrived today.

little typo corrected

Oh I say. Jolly good. Bemusing.

:D thanks! This is a delightful thread - I've lots of little chuckles reading everyones contirbutions.

Concur completely with Pummzie.

Kathy Acker:

1. Eff this shit
2. Vaginas rule
3. Get nostrils & nipples pierced
4. Watch porn

Hah!

This thread is fabulous...

ETA: 17, "4. Brush mustache" actually had me laughing out loud... Love it!

Listen up Brave Team Ulysses! BTU at attention!

This thread mission cannot end; it will not be permitted to end, until EVERY writer who's EVER written has her or his own refridgerator to-do list posted. We will have lots of down time from Ulysses, like when we're stuck inside those cramped wind-whipped tents during blizzards, doing nothing inside but shivering, trying to boil water that takes forever to boil above 20,000 feet that we may have delicious bowls of freeze dried chicken broth of ramen, that, Brave Team Ulysses, are times not to be wasted with frostbite or the shakes, but time to be redeemed for all posterity with more and more and more refridgerator to-do lists. So keep posting, Team BTU, and if I don't see certain names which have yet to post, start posting real soon, I'm going to call those certain names out publicly and it will be 100, not 50, pushups this time. Go ahead, just try ignoring me, Punk, make my day!

28: Cute! Lawrence Block had one of his characters in a Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery reading fictitious Sue G. books that had hilarious titles like AA is for drinkers, etc.

You can be cute and existential...

what about to do lists from the characters in Ulysses? Or is that too post modern?

Bloom.
1. Buy more liver
2. Make sure the outhouse has paper, for XXX sake
3. Lunch with the gang
4. copy

mmm needs more work. perhaps we could have a group effort on this one once we get going.

Shouldn't Bloom buy more kidneys? :D

My meager attempt: Chaucer

1. Clæne the kingk's unclænables
2. Assessen Frankish pullai þerly
3. Maken vertu of necessite, and take it weel, that we may not eschu, and namely that that to us alle is due.
4. Cal Moder

hahahahahah. Blimey, you call that meagre?

ImNotDedalus - Love it!

TomcatMurr - can't comment on Bloom yet...

no, and it seems from ImNotDedalus (we need to give this guy a short and easy nickname to type- all those damn capitals) that I'm not ready for it either.

Never mind. There's lots of time, and lots of people. We will get it right.

Clæne the kingk's unclænables This is genius, I have to say. I have been chuckling over it all afternoon.

I just voted to put a certain site on the U.S. quarter and then felt inspired...

1. bleach -- and Mend -- best blouse
2. visit neighbors -- from Heights remote --
3. decline to go Outside -- but
4. pen Susan another Note

Whose icebox? ;)

very nice Fullmoonblue!
Those damn dashes give her away instantly

That's fabulous Fullmoon!

Is is Stephanie Meyers? She's awesome!

1. I

2. love

3. Edward

4. LOL! (get it?)

Mmphft! (forces coffee down)

Naughtyhottie, you just about owed me a new monitor... :)

Funny funny!

Jack Kerouac.

1. Book next driving lesson.

2. Get crew cut.

3. Finish reading Proust.

4. Buy bottle of Sherry.

1. Inklings Meeting at 7pm, Eagle & Child
2. Prepare Lecture on Anglo-Saxon Nomenclature
3. Write riddle
4. Give Frida a call

Easy-peasy...

Nice image jjskye

37, 44: This is MORE fun when you don't put the name. I will try to come up with another one sometime today (work calls, dangit)

Also, 46: I have to remember to have you cater my son's next B-day. :) Can you deliver to Portland, OR?

I think once you start doing them, you have to stop yourself from inundating the thread with more!

btw I am still getting a kick out of the Chaucer one

no don't stop!

tomcat - you must have another offering for us?

You twisted my arm....

1. Take a slow walk.

2. Make dumplings for party

3. Move refridgerator (if only it were not so unburdensomely heavy, perhaps as a consequence of the memory of all that it has contained in the past and the foreknowledge of all that it will contain in the future...Perhaps refridgerators of those who never use them are correspondingly light?)

4. Iron velvet trousers.

(missing "not" inserted...)

Nice, Pummzie! That slacker's my all time favorite literary stylist.

Me too EF. I read absolutely everything he writes - although I don't love all of it (I must admit that the Goethe tangent in Immortality didn't really do it for me).

1. Crib entire plot from another, "nonfiction" book on the same topic.
2. Hire good lawyers for the inevitable lawsuit.
3. Kill off world famous academic in first two pages.
4. Profit!

Oh sorry, were we only supposed to do talented authors? OK, carry on.

Were you being just a little sarcastically cynical there, anna? Concur.

Along similarly, arguably "untalented" (though a personal guilty pleasure of mine, I confess) lines....

1. People are afraid to do lists.
2. Large margins (just ask early Joan Didion) are important for a minimalist with little to say.
3. My third and most popular novel was released only in paperback.
4. Nobody among the literati except Norman Mailer (and he's dead, bummer) even respects my novels -- Steve Almond said my last one was the worst novel he'd ever read -- but that doesn't bother me because nothing bothers me and because I know I'm important and will have a lasting literary influence like Hemingway and people are afraid to do lists and Santa Ana winds and freeways are evocative.

these are getting too obscure for me. can someone enlighten me about 53. I like velvet trousers too!

Here's one:
1. Visit trichologist
2. Brush the sand from my rolled up flannel trousers
3. try to express myself more clearly, and be more decisive... I think.... maybe....oh well, there is lots of time....lots of time
4. Visit trichologist (oh, I said that already mm)

You know, I was convinced that Pummzie's #53 was Proust, but notice her reply in #55, "I read absolutely everything he writes," present tense, so, while I think #53 does contain Proustian elements, I'm afraid I may have spoken too soon.

What say you Pummzie?

And talk about obscure, tomcat! Trichologist? Huh? Love it no matter what it means. :-)

I think #53 is Milan Kundera, the "Goethe" bit that Pummzie subsequently alluded to being from Part II of Immortality.

ETA:

#58: Bret Easton Ellis?
#59: Mr. Prufrock, naturally.

Yesssss, you're right about Bret Easton Ellis, smartypants. We're going to outwit you one of these days, I just know it, thou LTer who is not Dedalus.

BTU, put'cher extra-think thinking caps on and contrive arcane, esoteric to-do's that we might collectively and/or collaboratively outsmart our should-go-on-Jeopardy scholar.

Damn that man is good!

Cling the Keen's uncleanables!

Aww, shucks. I'd rather be a contestant on QI, but unfortunately, ImNotABritirishComedian.

(And to decode anna_in_pdx's, I think it's The From Vinci's Dan Brown, the putz)

yes it was Kundera! I tried it give little Czech pointers (dumplings, velvet revolution) and allude to several of his books - (unbearable lightness, slowness, farewell party), ... i thought the whole light/heavy thing would a dead giveaway but clearly, I didn't do too good a job!

hmm...who is 59?

Pummzie, you are brilliant! Now of course I can see it's Kundera, but to be honest the dumplings threw me. I was thinking of Chinese style dumplings and was wondering lost in totally the wrong direction lol!

59 is J Alfred Prufrock.

http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html

Dumplings are big in Czech cuisine too (at least I think they are!) and everything else requires more concentration to spell!

Prufrock - oh I see! I am an ignoramus - that one required recall gifts that I do I not possess!

1. Take enema.
2. Take opium.
3. Transcribe my visions.
4. Dammit. Hang on.

Funny!

Hunter S Thomspon?

nope

Thomas de Quincey?

Coleridge, when he was interrupted by the Person from Porlock?
(Edited to remove extraneous ? signs - sorry)

I was thinking de Quincey too because of Confessions of an Opium Eater but that "visions" comment has me thinking, I don't know, William Blake? Though I have no idea if he (or any other writer for that matter, partook of enemas).

Has to be Coleridge. He was an opium addict, I am 90% sure. I just re-read a book of English romantic poetry a couple of months ago and I read his bio.

I second (third?) Coleridge

More please!

Here's a relatively easy one to give us a breather from figuring out so hard....

1. No Pulitzer.
2. The Simpsons
3. Bananas
4. Gimme me that camera!

edited to make it harder

Who-who's been putting Pynchon--In-the-re-frig er a-tor!

OK everyone I think I've got one that's super duper hard. Hope you're ready....

????

????

????

????

????

????

????

1) The World According To Garp

2) The Hotel New Hampshire

3) A Prayer For Owen Meany

4) The Cider House Rules

(Hint...it's not Stephanie Meyers. And no peeking at my page for clues!)
Good luck!

hmm... I'm stumped

#80 omg it's really hard. And the TO DO list is really hard too....

#78 is definitely Pynchon

and Anna-in-pdx is correct: Coleridge interrupted by the person from Porlock.

1. Pill the provand: I've a lean and hungry look.
2. Must a moy for the players' new mandragorian mail: the play's the thing.
3. Enmew the eyas-musket of Burbage's eterne esperance: method in his madness.
4. Wassail, o wassail: that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

Chaucer?

I thought we did Chaucer. I thought that was Shakespeare from the quotations.

Once Moammar Qadafi said that Shakespeare was an Arab named Shaikh Jubair. Or at least, this is an oral tradition in Cairo. probably apocryphal.

1. Look for eel testicles. (crossed out)
2. Reserve room - let Minna know.
3. Recognize unconscious wish-fulfillment in patient hysteria and fantasies.
4. Note to self - Cocaine solves everything.

What a freudful couchmare!

Oh dear (duh!), you're right Anna. My faux pas (won't be the last)....Memory doesn't serve me well obviously

1. Do the Right Thing
2. What is the What
3. Thou Shalt Not Be Aware
4. Wilt Chamberlain

and #s 79 & 82, you are soooooo wrong! It's Joseph McElroy, not, who?, Pynchon?

McElroy's got no Pulitzer; I read somewhere that he adores The Simpsons; I'm completely "bananas" for his grossly underappreciated writing; and if you give me another two hours I'll figure out how to add "gimme that camera" as being part and parcel of his persona.

Ai yo that's cheating!

1. meet with plaintiff counsel in chambers at 4.00 (check with clerk.)

2. practice violin and finish composing partita in Eflat major

3. explore and describe the uncharted realm of the unconscious as it manifests itself in nightmares, visitations from beyond, and the unsettling presence of the uncanny

4. get catfood

89 - A little known fact about McElroy is that he is actually a fantastic photographer

Aw ya caught me! Wish I'd known that tidbit on Mac earlier Pummzie. Might've had a shot then at defeating that dratted Ded tomcat combo. Sigh.

Btw, #88 was inspired by Oulipo (hint hint).

This shouldn't take too long... ;)


1. Catch 'Night and Fog' matinee
2. Will she wanna grab a coffee?
3. Analyst at four
4. If that doesn't work, book trip to Lourdes

is the wonderfully eccentric, Flannery

Oh me oh my I messed up #88. One word does a difference make! Forgive my oversight. I've not delved into the world of the dark arts in quite some time. Should revisit Ben's Abyss asap! The what was erroneous. Here's how it should read:

1. Do the Right Thing
2. As Good As It Gets
3. Thou Shalt Not Be Aware
4. Wilt Chamberlain

re 93 -- here's one more hint: his self-esteem is "a notch below Kafka's..."

Meanwhile, on 88/95, I must confess I'm stumped.

#88/95: Calvino? (The chaining together of titles is If On A Winter's Night a Traveler-esque...)

No, but you're on the right track of chaining together.

Here's another hint: There's a secret message embedded in the list, and it's the whole of this writer's philosophy.

Fullmoon, is it Camus?

#98: Ha! I've spotted the secret message and can't identify the author, but I do get your reference to the dark arts in #95 now. Jogs my memory: I think I have a copy of 777 around here somewhere that hasn't been catalogued.

No, wait, it's Jean Paul Sartre isn't it? Did I finally get one right? Did I?

as Jim Carrey said in Liar Liar, "dingdingdingdingding, tell her what she's won Johnny!"

#102: Oh, yes? Ha! I read carelessly earlier: I thought that you meant that the author in #88 was inspired by Oulipo.

Did anyone get 90? I have been puzzling about it all morning.... and now it's almost two in the p.m.

all I'm getting is the catfood on that one Anna.

I can't figure out 90 either.

And another hint on 93:

5. Call Mi-- err, mother. Mothers come first, always...

Take a deep breath everybody.

1 - Rise with rosy-fingered dawn.
2 - Fish in wine-dark sea.
3 - Visit quick-witted eagle-eyed friend. Ask him to lead me to assembly place.
4 - Tell stories. Drink mellow wine from two-handled gold cup.

Homer

You are quick witted yourself!

hehe but I am completely stumped by 95 and 93. is 93 Woody Allen, do you think?

93 you are definietly right. I haven't seen VCB but that is probably where the Lourdes reference comes in.

95? I have no idea!

#95 is Aleister Crowley.

114: So it's an anagram of the first words of each film? Wow, that's too tricky for me.

112: So many smart people around here! I would never have thought of Woody Allen. (Also when did we move from authors to celebrities?)

109: Beautiful!

Yes, Medellia's & Anna are right, look ONLY at the first word of each number in #95, say each word, just the FIRST word, one right after the other, and you will behold the secret encrypted message a la Oulipo (or Da Vinci too!)...or I could just spell it out....

1. Do
2. As
3. Thou
4. Wilt

Are slick & tomcat the same person!?--alter egos one of another? Notice that not even one freaking minute transpired between slick's post, his edit of his own post, & then tomcat's response -- 7:02, both! Man I can't even move that fast with the hottie as much as I'd like to. That was...man oh man.

115 -- I was flipping through a book of excerpts from his screenplays today. :)

ETA The Woody Allen Reader

I am so disappointed with myself for missing the Crowley! (Even after Freeque and Medllia's broad hints.) Nice job.

If Tomcat had an alter ego it would be Kreisler, woudn't it?

hahaha now who's quick-witted!

So did I get it right about Woody Allen in 93? That was just a wild guess!

Pardon the deleted couplet: overly zealous arcane esoterica....

This one's easy!

1...Thespian credentials (not Woody Allen!)
2...Regrets publishing a novel
3...Famous scene involving mirror
4...Too many words; a lugubrious nerd; camera's closeup'd this writer reading at sport venues.

I think these are a lot easier to make than to figure out.

To do:

1. My lover.
2. My husband.
3. Destroy those dirty populist masses to make way for the real people.
4. Hook up with someone who knows that I know that he knows that I know that he knows that I want him.

i'm stumped on both of those

Here's four more clues each expounding on the correpsonding clue from #123

1. has acted in several films, but also acted in one episode of "Fraisier," the "Mary Christmas" episode, in 2000.

2. Horrific reality imitated the art multiple times in the novel this writer regrets publishing; published under a psuedonym, and is now out of print -- a collector's item.

3. synonym for "slaughter" spelled backwards

4. Fenway Park

red rum? still no idea!

My internet sleuthing reveals that Stephen King was in that Fraisier episode. Could that be our man? I'll admit that I still don't get any of the clues, but I don't read King so that may just be why.

Stephen King it is.

His novel Rage published as Richard Bachman (I believe in the mid to late '70s) was about a high school student who holds a classroom hostage at gunpoint. Apparently, one of the on-campus massacres preceeding Columbine was perpetrated by a boy who credited "Rage" as being inspiration for his evil deeds--he so identified with the anti-hero of "Rage," or something like that.

Well done Pummzie. Jack Torrance's psychic son in the The Shining in a trance, says "redrum" over and over, foreshadowing his seeing "redrum" in a haunted hotel's mirror that, when he turns around, spells (in dripping blood) "murder".

King, during World Series blowouts at Fenway Park, is often seen reading as the tv camera pans toward him.

ahh - I see. You had me totally confused because I thought you were talking about an actor who had written one book.

I read "Thinner" written under "Bachman" in my teen horror phase and I remember really enjoying it!

Who could forget the long walk (also a Bachman)!

Yes you two's! And the film version starring the Gov. of Cah-lee-fornya.

Hey Bokai, is #124 Ayn Rand?

That it is.

>130 Pummzie: That's what stumped me too. I was looking for an actor who wrote, not a writer who acted.

1....."an infant Shakespeare," enfant terrible, but don't confuse me for Cocteau

2.....Andre Breton & Max Ernst owe me big time

3.....absinthe, hashish, decadence, lovely Paris days w/Paul

4....."Misfortune was my God..."

Rimbaud!

1....."an infant Shakespeare," enfant terrible, but don't confuse me for Cocteau

2.....absinthe, hashish, decadence, lovely Paris days w/Paul

3.....see the world

4.....write novel

that's quick slick for ya!

Yeah, the lovely Paris days with Paul made it easier than some of your others.... :)

i'm thinking now that 4 should have been:

4.... ...

You've inspired me! How about this one?

1. Hashish
2. Hash--err, finish novel
3. Fix tape recorder
4. Check on Jane

pAUL bOWLES!

1. Hashish
2. Heroin
3. Benzedrine
4. Shoot Joan

Like it, TC!
Burroughs

1. Gore Vidal is pompous
2. First novel: most successful book by far
3. Convicted murderer lobbies for his own execution
4. Why are we in Vietnam?

Norman Mailer!

Jeez, I actually figured one out. I have a book about famous literary feuds and Norman Mailer fought with everyone, but Gore Vidal was a favourite target.

Good for you JJ! That looks like a fun and fascinating read. Yes, I remember watching an old interview/talk show from the mid 70s rerun somewhere, hosted, I believe, by, was it Tom Snyder? and to see the two of those arrogant erudite intellects bash each other back and forth was as good of entertainment as I've ever witnessed. It was like Jerry Springer, only the combatants were intelligent and the topic under debate very highbrow -- sort of like if Ded and tomcat were ever to get into an argument, one can only presume. And I wonder if that exchange is on YouTube by any chance. Have to check it out.

I was hoping to be the first to sneak one by who listed the actual title of one of the author's novels as a clue. Drat.

And Gore Vidal won! Go go Gore! go go Gore Go go Gore! go Gore Go!

* me and thenaughtyhottie dancing with HUGE pompoms*

123 Kundera ?

123 was actually Stephen King. Pummzie did one back at #53 that was Kundera. Nice try; I'm going to send you an invite for your efforts :)

Still no takers for number 90?

u wish me and u dance with huge pompoms, mr tomcat

just kidding. ill dance w/u

Hurrah You Naughty Hottie! Mwah!

#150--how 'bout 4 more clues

I don't think it's Bach, is it? Then I suddenly thought, wait, what about Sherlock Holmes? No, not him either. I am crying Uncle on this one.

hehehe
Who could have influenced Jung and Holmes? Who was a lawyer, a composer, a writer and had a cat.....
(giving it away now...)

Was it E.T.A. Hoffmann? Just an educated guess. He fits the lawyer, composer, writer criteria, and didn't he write something from the perspective of a cat?

Ding ding ding! Yes! The life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

so that's where tomcatMurr comes from, hmmm

speaking of cats....

1. cats, lions, white elephants
2. lost
3. red bull
4. ambulance

Fmurr

Fmurr is also a comic artist in France or switserland.
The serie is called " le genie des alpages"
But this ofcourse has nothing to do With this topic : )

I think you are right

His house and boat in cuba were infested by cats
He did waste some lions and elephants in Kenya
red bull might be an alusion to his manic machismo and his love for bull fights
and he was driving an ambulance in the spanish war

Well done glute & Mac--Hemingway it was, and you nailed the other allusions Macumbeira.

Steinway!

Hemmingbeck ?

Return Spencer to the library
Walk the dog
Buy Licquor
check the bloody boat (again !! )

#167...that's a piano silly! And #168, I've never heard of Hemmingbeck. It's *Stein*beck guys, HA! I got one! Wooohooo. I remember having to read Steinbeck's novel the Old Man and the Sea in high school and really really hating it.

Hope you guys all are wearing green today. Otherwise it's pinch pinch in your bottoms! LOL. I crack myself up sometimes.

170: I have to stop reading your posts at work or people will notice that I'm collapsing with laughter.

>170 thenaughtyhottie:.

If I recall, I hated Steibeck's Old Man and the Sea too. I'm so glad that Hemingway decided to rewrite it.

Do green tattoos count?

Mr. Cowboy,

How forward of you, Sir! Are you suggesting I pinch pinch your green tattoos?

Love to! HA! LOL.

I was under the impression that to wear green was to liberate oneself from imminent pichery. Otherwise, I would have never gotten the tattoo!

you are so naughty, hottie! I pinch you back! * giggle inanely*

Drawing a blank so far on 169.

is it Jack London?

: ) well done glut : the person is a very famous writer. 3 other clues left.

Yes Tomcatmurr it is !

hahahaha give me five!

I got the library reference, but why Spencer?

Spencer ( of the social darwinisme ) was the major intellectual influence on London. Most evident in Martin Eden but also grossly inlated in f.i.the Sea- wolf.
It is said to be the basis of London's racist thoughts and musings for which today he is banned out of every "honest intellectual'" library.

I still cherish his books, because they were my first hesitating steps as a "Reader"

Oh that Spencer. I was thinking of Fairy Queens and couldn't quite get my head around that and London...
Interesting.

Okay, this one's fairly random and not particularly famous, but it's on my mind today, so...

1. Read letter from hubby
2. Feed the pigs
3. Daydream about being taken by force in a tent near a desert oasis...
4. Find a publisher

Any takers? ;)

Might the answer be within one of your exquisite Algeria, Egypt, or Morocco tags, Blue?

185 , Jane Auer ? Paul Bowles compagnon ?

1 hubby = Paul bowles famous writer living in the maghreb
2 pigs, didn't she take car of a litter of pigs somewhere some time
3 dont we all ?
4 she too was a writer !

186 -- actually, her first novel *should* have one of those tags (clue: Algeria) but I just checked and I haven't managed to tag it at all yet, so no. ;)

And good guess, 187, but nope! This one's earlier.

Have I stumped everyone...?

If not jane auer then it must be Alexandra sellers

Is it J.K. Rowling Blue, is it?

doris lessing?

Nope, nope and nope!

Didn't Rowling want to be taken by force at a prep school?

Anyway. One last clue (this'll do it...) Valentino.

Gloria Swanson?

Har. Nope. Twas the shockingly little-known author of The Sheik, E.M. Hull. The woman almost singlehandedly started the whole 'sheik of Araby' bellydance insanity of the 1920s.

And by the way, if you have yet to see the film version (1921, black and white, starring Rudolph Valentino) then you absolutely positively must. You would LOVE it. Make sure to make a night of it, complete with hummus and kebab and grapeleaves, and eat on the floor, by candlelight and any/all tropical houseplants pulled nearby...

I wonder if Joyce ever saw it.

This thread is dead. Can it be resurrected? This thread was a blast last winter/spring. Did we cover every writer last winter/spring, or might there be more to post upon JJs (James Joyce's) fridge?

Or will this post twist in the wind? Let's find out....

1. Lieutenant de torpilleur

2. As famous for nouvelles as for novels.

3. Nothing of his most famous ouevre published before he turned forty.

4. Father: a Polish aristocrat; first language: French.

Oh come on Freeeeeky, that's way too easy.

Conrad.

Well darn you to Hale in a hand basket while I drum up something exceeeeeeeeeeedingly more difficult. Hmmph.

1. Entire family murdered at Auschwitz.

2. Survived the nazi's knock at the door when this person's mother hid them in the hall closet.

3. Wrote the first critical analysis (in book form - a post-grad. thesis) of Samuel Beckett's early fiction.

4. A single, book-length-sentence, comprises this person's novel released in 1979.

Sounds like Anne Frank but it isn't

Dickens?

Is it Gates of Paradise by Jerzy whatshisnameski?

Sure ain't.

No one will get it. Shall I just reveal it, since I'm sure so many just can't stand the excitement?

Wait! Gyorgy Konrad? That would be sneaky.

Not Gyorgy.

4 more hints.

1. Concrete

2. Surfiction

3. Photo of this writer is on a thread here in the salon.

4. The LT user formerly known as RSHabroptilus (Todd) now known as Ricky-something-or-other, has three books by this person.

But Rique, these are game show hints instead of refrigerator lists! I liked it the other way more, even though I'm not erudite or well-read enough to ever guess any of them (apart from Homer, way back when).

raymond federer!

Finally...a winner. Dingdingdingdingding. Tell him what he's won, Johnnie! Nothing. Absolutely nothing. But, thanks for playing.

Raymond Federman

213> so you prefer refrigerators to game shows do you? That's just fannnn-tastic. I knew reviving this thread would be a smash.

______'s Refrigerator To-Do List:

1. Mustache-grooming
2. Three eye appointments this afternoon
3. Watch for the fairies
4. Resurrect fallen hero

ETA: tweaked the wording on 4, from revive to resurrect...

A non-literary one (well unless you use a different definition of "literary" than I do)

1. Buy mustache tonic
2. Interview taxi driver for insights
3. Write column refuting Copernicus and Galileo
4. Profit!

216> How'ya been, Blue? Fancy meetin' you here after so long. Nice to see you back.

I'm going to take a wild guess and say ... James Joyce!

My wild guess for 216 is was J. M. Barrie.

I am completely stumped by 217.

I'm stumped on #217 too!

PS, greetings right back at you, EnriqueFreeque. Just happened to notice that you'd resurrected this thread and couldn't help myself...

PPS, the word 'resurrect' is actually critical to #216. 'Revive' didn't seem strong enough, since the character this author decided to bring back to life had quite literally 'fallen' to his death...

Arthur Conan DOyle! Obviously Fullmoonblue had already figured that out...

217 writes for a newspaper of record.

That's the last hint!

I am very disappointed no one has guessed 217.

Should I tell you all?

Hear-aldo Riv-ear-ah? Can't be.

No, but getting warmer. He uses a pen (or a laptop) not a camera...

Jerry Cologne-ah?

John Stossel?

Gene Shalit?

I am actually now that I think about it quite happy that none of you are that familiar with this horrible man.

I was thinking of Thomas Friedman of the New York Times who has written several stupid books about the wonders of globalization including his most recent The world is flat. It was skewered in Rolling Stone by Matt Taibbi and I have read the piece several times.

The main reason I despise Friedman is because once he wrote a column called "Hama Rules" explaining how in the Middle East you have to exterminate an entire town once in a while to show people who's boss. The example was Hafez Al Assad's razing of the town of Hama. What a great guy. Why the Times keeps him on is beyond me. Both stupid and genocidal.

Great job, but Ewww, Anna! I've seen this guy on TV and he is a jerk.

he's also written an incredibly stupid book about China's wonderful environmental record. A total jerk.