Prizes for the first one who gets it right
OK, here's how it works. The first one to answer a question correctly - possibly a passage from a novel or some such thing - will win the prize. The contest will be held twice a month. And if no one answers correctly the prize that would have been won is added up and this continues until somebody wins. (I think that's called "cumulative," although words have been escaping me lately as have the sexy waitresses at the Londoner Pub.)
So beginning on 1 February 2005 I will post a question. Whoever gets the right answer first gets an all expense paid trip to San Francisco and a free suite at the Mark Hopkins and, uh, oh, sorry, I was dreaming there for a minute. Anyway, the first to get it right ends up with 500 baht worth of food or drinks or combination up to that amount at the Bourbon Street Café, Washington Square, soi 22. You also win 500 baht worth of food or drinks or combination up to that amount at the Londoner Pub, soi 33. And I send you one of my novels as well.
Then on 15 February 2005 I will post another question. The winner gets 500 baht worth of food or drinks at the Londoner Pub and the same at Larry's Dive. Plus a book. If no one won before, the winner of this contest gets two books and the previous Bourbon Street deal as well as the previous Londoner Pub deal plus the new prizes. And so on, repeating and adding to the same prizes. After somebody wins, it starts over as above.
As there will be a new contest every two weeks, please claim your prize within a reasonable amount of time so as not to confuse the good people working in these places.
Sorry, that's about as clear as I can make it.
True, if you don’t live in Thailand, winning a prize for food or drinks doesn’t do you much good but it’s not my fault you’re not bright enough to live in Thailand, right?
So let’s get started on our very first fortnightly contest. All you have to do to win is to identify the novel the following quotes are from and the author. You then subtract the year in which the author died from the present Thai year we are in. And send me your answer. Simple.
Good luck. Here are the quotes from the novel:
“I felt for the first time the premonitory chill of loneliness….I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused….Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child?…Wait until you’re afraid of living ten years alone with no companion and a nursing home at the end of it. Then you’ll start running in any direction, even away from that girl in the red dressing-gown, to find someone, anyone, who will last until you are through….If only it were possible to love without injury…we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation.”
Send your answer (which will be a number) to: deanbarr@loxinfo.co.th
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