Apologies for the delay in sending this through. As you’ll have seen from my Twitter tweets, that site is where I spent most of my 4 February this year — I’m attaching a screen-grab of one of
my Twitter pages and, as you’ll notice, they’re mostly Hoban quotes.
With a two-year-old boy to mind at home, I don’t get out much any more. So a physical quote drop wasn’t possible. I decided to restrict my 2010 quotes exclusively to my favourite Hoban novel,
Pilgermann, this year. Space permitting, I endeavoured to include links to the SA4QE website on my tweets. I also re-tweeted other 4Qations on Twitter like a madman.
Here’s a screen-grab from my Facebook page, too.
The sword has crumbled into rust and the wind has blown the rust away but still I am, still I am of the world.
- from Pilgermann
I also posted a Pilgermann quote to my blog,
NZBC:
This is probably my favourite Hoban sentence of all. Russ’s voice radiates from it; instantly recognisable, incontrovertibly beautiful. I 4Qated it before, in 2002, but it’s so good it bears repeating.
Twilight it was, the dying day shivering a little and huddling itself up in its cloak. Suddenly there came flying towards me with a mouse dangling from its beak, an owl, what is called a veiled owl, with a limp mouse dangling from its cryptic heart-shaped face.
What a great year for 4Qating it was — there was a real buzz on Twitter and Facebook, and it was fun watching the Twitter ‘ticker’ on the SA4QE home page to see who else was 4Qating.
Well being,
Chris BellNew Zealand