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Literature and Fiction

[] Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson. "The tiddlywink warriors", short story. ("small metal disk with sharp edges [...] poison") Appears in:
The Magazine of fantasy and science fiction. August 1955. (see Magazines section)
Earthman's burden. 1957, Gnome Press. Pages 154­185. Words used on pages 174, 177 (two), 179, 180, 181 (two)
Earthman's burden. 1957, Avon. Pages 159­189. Words used on pages 178, 181, 182, 184 (two), 185, 186 <o>
[] Poul Anderson. The rebel worlds. 1969, Signet. Page 50
[] Poul Anderson. We claim these stars. © 1959. Page 98 ("hypersquidgeronics")
[] Poul Anderson. (Other books in the Flandry series ("Hell and tiddlywinks").)
[] Piers Anthony. Blue adept. © 1981, Ballantine. Page 149 <o>
[] Piers Anthony. Fractal mode. ("Are you sure you know what you're doing' he asked Colene . . . he knew they were not playing tiddlywinks") <x>
[] Piers Anthony. Split infinity. © 1980, Ballantine. Page 312 <o>
[] Isaac Asimov [Ask Dave Lockwood]
[] James M. Barrie. Peter Pan. 1904. Chapter VII. "There was a chandelier from Tiddlywinks for the look of the thing," <e>
[] William S. Burroughs. Cities of the red night. 1981?. <x>
[] Clyde Brion Davis. Something for nothing. © 1955. Page 280
[] Philip K. Dick. Our friends from Frolix 8. © 1970, Bantam. Page 180 <o>
[] J. D. Fitzgerald. The Great Brain.
[] Erle Stanley Gardner. The case of the moth­eaten mink. 1952, Pocketbooks. Page 60
©1952, 1980, Ballantine Books, New York, ISBN 0-345-36928-9. Page 67 <o>
[] Anne Green. With much love. 1948. Page 103 (" [...] Papa found Eleanor and Mary playing Tiddledy Winks while Mamma and Charles pored over maps") <x>
[L] James Joyce. Finnegans wake. © 1939, Viking. Pages 23 ("how biff for her tiddywink of a windfall"), 583 ("whenever she druv behind her stumps for a tyddlesly wink through his tunnilclefft bagslops [...]") <c>
[L] James Joyce. Ulysses. ©1934 (written 1914­1921), Modern Library (Random House). Page 670 ("Parlour game (dominos, halma, tiddledywinks [...]") <o>
[] Stephen King, The stand. [TBD date]. (paperback) Page 784 ("The coins falling on the plastic made a sound that reminded Harold absurdly of tiddledywinks."). Page 897 ("A manhole cover exploded into the air at Broadway-and-Walnut intersection, went nearly fifty feet, and came down on the roof of the Oz Toyshop like a great rusty tiddledywink.")
[] Fred Majdalany. Patrol. 1953. Page 68 ("In return she gave him four large tiddly-winks [...]") <x>
[] Julian May. The nonborn king. © 1983, Pan Books, London. Page 209 <x>
[>L] Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita. ©1955. Putnam. Pages 21 and another page. <o>
Berkley. Pages 20 ("I am just winking happy thoughts into a little tiddle cup"), 21 ("My little cup brims with tiddles.") <o>
[L] George Orwell. Nineteen eighty­four. © 1949, Harcourt­Brace. Page 298 <o>
[L] John Steinbeck. The grapes of wrath. ©1939, Bantam. Pages 13 ("flipped the turtle like a tiddly­wink"), 87 ("the children squidged their toes in the red dust") <o>
[] Rex Stout. Rubber band. Page 129
[L] P. G. Wodehouse. The cat-nappers (US title). Aunts aren't gentlemen (UK title) ©1974, Perennial Library, Harper & Row, New York. Page 112 (Aunt Dahlia: " 'Do you remember when you had measles and I gave up hours of my valuable time to playing tiddlywinks with you and letting you beat me without a murmur?' ". Bertie Wooster: "I could have disputed this. My victories had been due entirely to skill. I haven't played much tiddlywinks lately, but in those boyhood days I was pretty hot stuff at the pastime.") <o>

 

 

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