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I imagine many of those into their climbing history will know that the name of the classic Cornish E5 Darkinbad the Brightdayler (E5 6a) is a direct quotation from James Joyce's modernist classic, Ulysses. It occurs on page 693, as Bloom is drifting off to sleep. Here's a taste:

Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler.

Given that this is the end of the penultimate chapter, I think we can assume that Pat Littlejohn read the whole thing! There are countless routes that riff on the titles of novels, but of course this doesn't prove that the book ever got opened. Are there other route names that are actually quotations from within the text? I'm struggling to make any progress (which is pretty much what would happen if I jumped on Darkinbad!)

Tolkein has been mined to death for route names over the years particularly in the Lakes.

Good point - but haven't they generally been characters who recur throughout the text, like the Nazgul? While Darkinbad sounds like a character's name, it's essentially a dreamy deformation of Sinbad the Sailor and only appears once. That's really what I'm thinking about - a phrase that only appears once.

Not a quote as such, but Shangri-La (S 4a)is the setting for most of Lost Horizon by James Hilton.

"Our Father" and "Kingdom Come"  

I was quite proud of suggesting the name 'All Quiet' to John Syrett for the diagonal traverse line he was trying across Wall of Horrors, to the left of Western Front at Almscliff. He really liked it, so the project became known as All Quiet a long time before it was first done (I think by Livesey).

Well I never! I always thought that was a Pat special, something about starting 'Dark and bad and leading to the bright daylight. I started but never finished Ulysses so didn't pick up the reference. Thanks.

PS I have never started the route! Or even  aspired to doing so - well beyond me.

PPS Was it once on the cover of Mountain?

About 692 pages to late for most.

"Heart of Darkness" springs to mind.

Saltheart Foamfollower only appears in the book after the readers who are not going to finish it throw the book away

The Bells, The Bells! (E7 6b) - Quasimodo in "Les Misérables" (I think; I've never read it).

Errrrrr.....Hunchback of Notre Dame maybe?

Slightly tenouse as it's not part of the text but Four Door Dostoyevsky (8a+)springs to mind

Oops, yes of course!

Several replies above are book titles or characters rather than quotes.

My offering is "Brave New World" obviously the book title but taken from a Shakespeare quote.

That got me thinking. Other Shakespeare quotes: To Be or Not to Be (f7A+), All Our Yesterdays (E1 5b), Dogs of War (6a+). So many Shakespeare phrases have entered everyday language that there must be loads more. I might have to put together a ticklist.

Slightly 'off-topic', perhaps, but a route widely considered to be one of the best climbs in the Dolomites is "Lo spigolo del velo della Madonna", a faithful translation of which would be summat like "The edge of the Madonna's veil", which if nothing else is quite poetic. The best rendering of it my Ron James Dolomites guide could come up with was "The Scarf Arete". A tad less romantic, I feel.

Theres's a Winter of our Discontent (5.10c) in Yosemite and a Winter of Discontent (VS 4c) in Yorkshire.

Ooh, good topic. Would make a good quiz question as it's pretty difficult to use Google.

The Horror (f7A+) potentially a heart of darkness reference?

Had a look through the UKC search engine using some famous lines...

Call Me Ishmael (VIII 9)

A Far, Far Better Thing (f6A)

Quoth the Raven (HVS 5a)

Nevermore Arête (HVS 5a)

Big Brother Is Belaying Me! (E5 6b)

Lot's of Jim Perrin's routes of course - Strait Gate, Gate of Horn are examples and then Pat Littlejohn with War and Peace, the Brothers Karamazov although not sure these fit the original brief of being text from within a literary source.  There must be loads, but quite hard to think of them...  Ulysses itself.  

...and there is a lot of Thomas Hardy in the Lakes - Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Return of the Natives, Jude the Obscure...  mind you, depends on your definition of 'literary' I suppose

Flipping this on its head, is there a route called "Reader, I married him" ? etc

The Frumious Bandersnatch (E7 6c)

A Lewis Caroll creation featuring in Through the Looking Glass and The Hunting of the Snark.

And of course there's lots of routes called Jabberwocky.

There are also loads of routes called Chariots of Fire in the UK, and at least three Arrows of Desire.

There's a crag in Nevada which has several "Hamlet" quotes as climb names (I googled "The rest is silence climb" just out of curiosity):

https://www.mountainproject.com/route/106949860/the-rest-is-silence

I could have sworn I once named a route 'Fletcher Lynd', but UKC doesn't recognise the name so either I imagined having done so or it was in a pretty obscure location that I've since forgotten. Probably the former.

As penance I offer Rien de Rien (7c+), which is a musical reference that isn't actually the song title and is therefore at least in the spirit of your OP.

Edit: Come to think of it, the neighbouring I hope you like jammin' too (6a+) would fit the bill too.

Thought there probably had to be a few Coleridge references, seen as he invented rock climbing

Water water everywhere but not a drop to drink. (f6B+)

And possibly

Getting Rid of the Albatross (E6 6c)

Gosh loads I'd imagine!

Brave new World, Slaughterhouse 5 Gormenghast, The White Hotel 

Viz Crag with Roger Mellie and The Pathetic Sharks etc 

Yeah those are just titles, though. I think Andy was looking for quotations from the text, something that shows the climber might actually have read the book!

No idea whether Kurt Albert was thinking in biblical terms when he opened Offenbarung

Exactly this. Route names that are quotations rather than titles or characters seem to be really rare. Like the Coleridge. And the Hamlet crag mentioned above certainly delivers! It's not in my Red Rocks guide, but that's quite ancient. 

And on the subject of Coleridge, it's just struck me that he's got a whole crag in Tuolumne:  Stately Pleasure Dome from Kubla Khan. 

If poems/songs are admissable then the following crawled to mind;

Is "slouching towards Bethlehem" a route somewhere? I think its a quote from a Yeats poem.

"Twisted Reach" on Chatsworth is borrowed from Mr Tambourine Man  

Rough Beast (which precedes your quote) would be a good route name, especially on grit or gabbro. It's from Second Coming by Yeats.

As a big Dylan fan I can't resist continuing the line with Crazy Sorrow (Winter) (IX 10). Any more lines from songs, rather than titles? 

The Wine Dark Sea (E1 5a)

And Not to Yield (f6B)

Two Ulysses references in succession. Very neat, given where the thread started! Here's another: Hungry Heart (E2 5b), from the great Tennyson poem. 

Or the Springsteen song...

I think that's a deliberate allusion on the Boss's part. (And I bet he finished the novel as well as the poem!)

Kipling Groove - Because it is Rudy-ard