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yet another book meme
The first place I saw this book meme was at feministe.us (a weblog I mean to visit more often, because I always find something interesting there). The rules:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
Here's my sentence from page 123 of Sherwood's The Book of Splendor:
"When the emperor sneezes, we must all take to our beds."If you don't have a weblog, post your 123.5 to the comments, here. Maybe something interesting will happen. A prose poem, full of buttery yellow daffodils and broken wheel axels.
April 4, 2005 03:29 PM
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I still labor in The Valley of Nonfiction... :
"With passive-aggressive vampires, it works better to tailor your strategy to fit their particular dynamics." (from "Emotional Vampires: Dealing with People Who Drain You Dry," just unwrapped from today's mail, expedited shipping.)
However, I spy the poetic sentence at #7, viz:
"Don't just tell them to do it,
because they won't"
Cheers, robyn
Posted by: robyn at April 4, 2005 04:41 PM
"The various relays are grouped together in several locations." From the once desperately gripping, now pointless "Buick Oldsmobile Pontiac Full-Size Models 1970 thru 1990 Rear-wheel drive 3.8 L V6, 4.1 L V6 and all V8 gasoline engines Automotive Repair Manual"
Since the "Manual" doesn't use regular numbering systems and that was #5 from page 12-3, I give you: "The orchard, with its great sweeping boughs that bent to the ground with fruit, proved so delightful that the little girls spent most of the afternoon in it, sitting in a grassy corner where the frost had spared the green and the mellow autumn sunshine lingered warmly, eating apples and talking as hard as they could."
Sentence #5, page 123, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maude Montgomery.
Posted by: Pam at April 4, 2005 05:11 PM
Pg 123, sentence #5 from Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
I watched from the kitchen, then moved through to the study as she prowled the grounds.
Posted by: joyce at April 4, 2005 06:22 PM
123.5 of The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje:
But you two.
Posted by: Anamaria at April 4, 2005 08:15 PM
"Substituted objects at this stage need to look similar to the desired object". Taken from Learn to Play: a practical program to develop a child's imaginative play skills by Karen Stagnitti.
Posted by: Jacqui at April 5, 2005 02:12 AM
Prune after flowering and again in late winter, should you wish to control its size. - From Wayside Gardens Catalog concerning wisterias in the garden.
Posted by: asdfg at April 5, 2005 06:31 AM
But the strategy broke down at night.
The 123.5 of "Less than a Treason; Hemingway in Paris" by Peter Griffin
Posted by: Cynthia at April 5, 2005 06:34 AM
Hee hee! What fun!
Since I'm at work right now, I give you:
Le Robert & Collins Dictionnaire Français-Anglais, Anglais-Français, Page 123, 5th example listed at the top of the page (under the entry for "ce"):
il faut être diplômé, ce qu'il n'est pas = you have to have qualifications, which he hasn't
But from the current novel I'm reading, tucked in my back pack:
"Tu sais ce qu'il préférerait, Florent?" from "Gabrielle" by Marie Laberge
Posted by: Teresa at April 5, 2005 12:04 PM
"The mandolin players had long since stolen away."
page 123 of The Awakening by Kate Chopin, which I can't get into to save my life.
Posted by: Rachel at April 5, 2005 01:13 PM
My 123.5
"As in crazy."
the book, Desperation by Stephen King (the book I chose when I reached behind me without looking.)
Posted by: Lanna Lee Maheux-Quinn at April 5, 2005 06:46 PM