18 June 2004 - Friday
Literary rememe
It is a fun little exercise, offering bloggers the coveted opportunity to wear their literacy on their sleeves. I'll gladly go around once more.
The Orient was itself bearer of an ancient and complex polyglossia.Your instructions (pass them along):(M. M. Bakhtin, "From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse," The Dialogic Imagination)
1. Grab the closest book.
2. Turn to page 64.
3. Find third complete sentence.
4. Print sentence in comments here or on your own site (a trackback would be nice).
Revived by my cousin.
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"I, Sourdust, lord of the library, personal adviser to your lordship, nonagenarian, and student of the Groan lore, proffer to your lordship the salutations of a dark morning, robed as I am in rags, student as I am of tomes, and nonagenarian as I happen to be in the matter of years."
(Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan)
"What I mean to say is, if a fellow in those days wanted to give anyone a letter of introduction, he had to spend a month or so carving it on a large-sized boulder, and the chances were that the other chappie got so sick of lugging the thing round in the hot sun that he dropped it after the first mile."
(P. G. Wodehouse, Life With Jeeves)
The thoughts of Blame Jared on 18 June 2004 - 16:51 Central+ + + + +
okay, after not spotting a book nearby my computer, i went to go get tolstoy from the living room. but after i got back, i spotted one on top of my case beneath my desk. so for your pleasure, i present two:
"Why are the children here?:
--Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
"Most spouses will respect such a request."
--Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages
wow that was weird. two short ones surrounded by longer sentences. :-D
The thoughts of banana on 18 June 2004 - 23:58 Central+ + + + +
Page 64, eh? *grabs*
*flips*
"His fits were becoming more frequent, and on the days he was ill Marfa cooked, which did not suit Fyodor Pavlovitch at all."
--Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamozov
That one's kinda boring, so I found a more interesting one...
"'Shall we watch over the body?'"
--Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
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"Christ, under the illusion that we are all penguins, is crouched down posing for snapshots."
-Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard
The thoughts of Algae on 19 June 2004 - 11:47 Central+ + + + +
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"But hold me blameless in this, and in all that may come after"
--Měriel, The Silmarillion
The thoughts of Toad on 18 June 2004 - 16:16 Central+ + + + +