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Mini-quiz and mystery
May. 10th, 2004 10:06 pmQuestion
In a room, locked from the inside, you find a dead man collapsed upon an Egyptian mummy case. You learn that the first person to enter the room after the man's death saw "a green mist" and subsequently fell ill. Another man, employed by the household and of Chinese nationality, is found dead in an adjacent room. Do you:
(a) Remain completely mystified as to the cause of the deaths,
(b) Presume that they died by supernatural agency because of an ancient Egyptian curse,
(c) Declare that the dead Chinese man was part of a vast conspiracy to raise the yellow races above the white man and that there must have been a tiny murderer hidden inside the sarcophagus, or
(d) Figure it was poison gas and then read the next couple of chapters with desperate boredom until the novel's protagonist works it out.
If you answered
(a) You are the narrator. Dr Petrie. You have a medical degree and no brain. No wonder you never seem to have any patients.
(b) You are the Orientalist and explorer Sir Lionel Barton. You are headstrong and loud. You probably look like Brian Blessed.
(c) You are Nayland Smith, hero of the Empire. You are probably suffering from a form of paranoid schizophrenia. Wear the tinfoil hat and go with the nice medical gentlemen in the van. They may be able to make you well.
(d) You are Indri. You are simultaneously a Scot living in Australia and a kind of lemur. Your forehead is covered in strange bruises from where you have been banging your head in frustration against the wall. Why are reading The Insidious Fu-Manchu again?
My apology
Sorry to inflict this on you. I'm going to stop going on about this book now. Next up is Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea a book I actually enjoyed the first time around.
In a room, locked from the inside, you find a dead man collapsed upon an Egyptian mummy case. You learn that the first person to enter the room after the man's death saw "a green mist" and subsequently fell ill. Another man, employed by the household and of Chinese nationality, is found dead in an adjacent room. Do you:
(a) Remain completely mystified as to the cause of the deaths,
(b) Presume that they died by supernatural agency because of an ancient Egyptian curse,
(c) Declare that the dead Chinese man was part of a vast conspiracy to raise the yellow races above the white man and that there must have been a tiny murderer hidden inside the sarcophagus, or
(d) Figure it was poison gas and then read the next couple of chapters with desperate boredom until the novel's protagonist works it out.
If you answered
(a) You are the narrator. Dr Petrie. You have a medical degree and no brain. No wonder you never seem to have any patients.
(b) You are the Orientalist and explorer Sir Lionel Barton. You are headstrong and loud. You probably look like Brian Blessed.
(c) You are Nayland Smith, hero of the Empire. You are probably suffering from a form of paranoid schizophrenia. Wear the tinfoil hat and go with the nice medical gentlemen in the van. They may be able to make you well.
(d) You are Indri. You are simultaneously a Scot living in Australia and a kind of lemur. Your forehead is covered in strange bruises from where you have been banging your head in frustration against the wall. Why are reading The Insidious Fu-Manchu again?
My apology
Sorry to inflict this on you. I'm going to stop going on about this book now. Next up is Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea a book I actually enjoyed the first time around.
