Trivia time

[scatteroflight]

Let's see who can get this one.

Who authored the line "And hope and history rhyme?"

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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned


-W.B. Yeats

 

[ACROB@T]

A person named "WHO" I'm guessing, damn, all that time in Treasure has go me fixated with riddles..damn I'm good!

 

[pop_mofo]

The answer is...

Seamus Heaney.

Boy, do I feel smart now

Peace Kiddies.

 

[Foxxern]

Originally posted by scatteroflight:
Not Sophocles (unless the person I know wrote the line quoted Sophocles)

Um, you aren't thinking of Seamus Heaney, are you? I don't think he wrote the line, just used it as title of a poem.



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Change is the only constant

 

[devalera1]

It's from Seamus Heaney's "The Cure at Troy"

 

[devalera1]

I'm not sure my first post made it complete: it's from Seamus Heaney's "The Cure at Troy" - a translation of Sophocles' Philoctetes

By the way, U2 thanks Heaney in the liner notes

 

[scatteroflight]

Ah, so there were some rightish sort of answers already. When I ask questions like this I always find out stuff I don't know.

Good job people!!

Did anyone cheat and look it up on the Net?

 

[SkeeK]

Originally posted by scatteroflight:
Did anyone cheat and look it up on the Net?

Duh! But I still got a right answer first!

I actually just had to find a specific article that I remember seeing it in on ******.net

 

[SkeeK]

******

wtf?

 

[SkeeK]

I'm guessing Blake, but I'm not sure.

 

[scatteroflight]

Originally posted by SkeeK:
I'm guessing Blake, but I'm not sure.

Nope, but good try.

 

[Achtung Bubba]

Bono!

It says "Lyrics: Bono" in the liner notes. Gosh, that was easy!

 

[Foxxern]

Perhaps it was Sophocles? He sounds vaguely related to the saying.

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Change is the only constant

 

[SkeeK]

Philoctetes!

 

[scatteroflight]

Originally posted by Achtung Bubba:
Bono!

It says "Lyrics: Bono" in the liner notes. Gosh, that was easy!

I didn't think I needed to mention that this was a trick question.

In Peace on Earth, it says "but hope and history won't rhyme." My question was: who wrote the line "and hope and history rhyme"?

Not Sophocles (unless the person I know wrote the line quoted Sophocles) and not whoever you suggested, Skeek.