Old JKR quote (Spoilers? not sure)

Tim Regan dumbledad at dumbledad.yahoo.invalid
Mon Jul 23 11:40:46 UTC 2007


(Cross posted to HPFGU-OTChatter)

Hi All,

Obviously finding an old quote isn't a spoiler, though I'm a bit worried
that the fact I'm looking for it might, in and of itself, be problematic.
Just to be safe, here's some spoiler space, complete with a spoiler space
poem taken from "The Best Man That Ever Was" by Annie Freud (that I bought
while in the HP7 queue on Friday night).

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| The Inventor of the Individual Fruit Pie
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| The sort of thing he thought made life worth living was the knowledge 
| that Mae West was real, that she lived, and that she made the Big 
| Time. He wondered whether Schopenhauer would have got the point of her 
| or not.
| Then he said, 'There is a man; he's on his own; there's something in 
| the air about to expand, something out there ...
| he's smoking a cigarette, but I could replace it with a pie that 
| catches the mood of the moment, and I will meet that mood, that 
| opportunity for careless satisfaction.
| And on the other side of town,
| a girl in a white dress walks along,
| brushing the fence with the tips of her fingers; she could be eating 
| the very same pie.
| And my pies will grow and multiply.
| Apple, Blackcurrant, Peach and Gooseberry will be mine.
| I visualise pleasures that do not pin you down, a nation of consumers 
| of my soft-cornered square hand-held to their open mouths on 
| cliff-tops and village greens, in pavilions and on promenades, at 
| steering wheels on the Great West Road, and at home on tables laid for 
| four with plates and spoons and cream and I will make the Big Time.'
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I remember a JKR interview from way way back where she says something like
"anyone who has read the bible will know what happens in the end". I'm not
sure if she uses the word "bible" or says "understands Christianity". But I
am having no luck at all finding the original quote. Here are my two
attempts on Quick Quotes:
- search for "bible" http://tinyurl.com/3ado44 (10 results, none what I'm
looking for); and
- search for "christian" http://tinyurl.com/2n67c8 (23 results, none what
I'm looking for).

This quote has been used in discussions on the main list before, e.g.
- Jim Ferer on Thu May 6, 2004:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/97800 
- Pip!Squeak on Sat Nov 9, 2002:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/46387 
- Ravenclaw Ba on Fri Aug 2, 2002:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/42001 

But since it isn't on Quick Quotes I am beginning to wonder whether JKR
really said it or whether it is a fandom legend.

Cheers,

Dumbledad.


		
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