Internation Book Week Meme Complicated
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feng_shui_houseIt's international book week. The rules: Grab the closest book to you, turn to page 52, post the 5th sentence. Don't mention the title. Copy the rules as part of your post.
‘a small keg of the vertiable elixir of Eden. (Every Norman knows that the apple of the Bible is symbolic;’"Food prices will rise so high that some people will starve; others will be forced to decrease the effective amount of land they use and shift to lower quality diets." He does so because he doesn't want you to come into your kitchen at seven o'clock and find a plateful of cold chops and egg there. Caius: By gar, me vill kill de priest: for he speak for a jack-an-ape to Ann Page. “The roof slowly gathered flame, then rapidly, then with such astonishing speed and heat that pyrogenic lightning - the kind normally generated by forest fires - began flashing over the doomed cathedral.”A short time later, the dark night was illuminated by a celestial glow and the air trembled to the terrible majesty of angelic music. "It should be a shade darker." “Harry, your eyesight really is awful,” said Hermione, as she put on glasses.“But the owl lay motionless and pathetic as a toy on the floor of her cage.”
“It had been three years since Rickon.” “It was a Thursday, the first time, I was wiping down the kitchen table and mother was standing by the window.”"She had quite a lot of sex appeal, too, if you really want to know." “And joyfully laughing, he continued to lead her along toward the dining room”“The fulfilled lover has no need to write, to transmit, to reproduce.”“Salander had made plain that she did not want Armansky to act as some sort of worried stepfather, and since their agreement he had been careful never to behave like one, but in reality he would never stop worrying about her.”“Craster married all his daughters.”‘Two roses for Beth, Two scoldings for Joe, Two ribbons for Frannie, With a ho-diddle-ho!’
"I'd smell where they were, and go save them, and when Robb went to battle I'd fight beside him like Grey Wind." He gasped, “But Dagny, you’re a woman!" 'I claim birth-right, and blood-right-- and death-right!' " “‘What do you want out of life?’ I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.” "To strike you dead?"“Isn’t it strange that I know you’d risk your life to save mine…but I don’t know what your favorite color is?”
Octavia’s light evergreen skin, which now hangs too loosely, as if her body were a slowly deflating balloon. Where had she come from? She seemed overwhelmed with anger more than she was with the pain she must have been suffering from.When a child has an ear infection, pus collects behind the ear drum and causes pain and often fever.
“I begin to weary of the vastness, the endlessness of this place.”Jon hesitated, then nodded slowly. “Can you climb down, or shall I bring a ladder?” ‘And he went and walked up and down in the Filbert walk - just half hidden by the rails, and half seen; and he cuddled his pillow, just like a baby; and talked to it all the nonsense people do.’” “He was singing the news with his old, out-of-tune voice, accompanying himself with the same archaic accordion that Sir Walter Raleigh had given him in the Guianas and keeping time with his great walking feet that were cracked from the saltpeter.” Charlie sighed and gave up for the moment, though I imagine he would revisit the subject when we were alone again, He heaved himself to his feet and headed for the TV, Just like every other night. “ "He wandered down the halls and popped into the first office that took his fancy, although he was never certain whose office it was."“The soundproofed glass and under-floor heating created the effect of a luxurious time capsule that had been propelled back to the Neolithic age.”“In range of my glance I spotted Salman Rushdie, Charlie Rose, and Lou Reed.”“They were all kinds of men—literate men, and ignorant men, clean men and dirty men—but all of them had restlessness in common.” “They pursued him up the M4 that night until he crashed his car by junction twelve”
"The Magisterium is alive with speculation; one branch says one thing, another is investigating something else, and each of them is trying to keep its discoveries secret from the rest. Having “solved” the problem of more efficient locomotion, some of the dinosaurs known as therapsids (Gk. thera= heal, close+L. apsid=arch), or mammal-like reptiles, may also have taken the first steps toward solving the problem of thermoregulation. This is not a sexy problem (like heroin addiction ), or even an interesting one (like the entanglements expressed in Rufus Wainright’s “Instant Pleasure” or Sloan’s “Underwhelmed”). “The question of designing “experience” is frequently debated in design circles, and particularly in educational circles where students have a tendency to mistake software as a way to transform themselves miraculously into film directors.” Other early films of a similar stripe include Dream of Rarebit Fiend by Edwin S Porter.
”Far more than the United States, Britain exemplifies Schumpeter’s model of democracy as an electoral competition between organized parties.” I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring: I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men and the colours of things: I took the drama, the most objective form known to art, and made it as personal a mode of expression as the lyric or the sonnet, at the same time that I widened its range and enriched its characterisation: drama, novel, poem in rhyme, poem in prose, subtle or fantastic dialogue, whatever I touched I made beautiful in a new mode of beauty: to truth itself I gave what is false no less than is true as its rightful province, and showed that the false and the true are merely forms of intellectual existence. “Forces in the world will tell you you’re a victim- of your family, your race, your past, your history.”“This approach assumes that if people are fearful that a particular habit is hurting their health, they will change their behavior to reduce their fear.”“In retrospect it seems unthinkable to us now that it might have been otherwise, but we forget just how easily people forsake their tongues - as the Celts did in Spain and France, as the Viking did in Normandy, and as the Italians, Poles, Africans, Russians, and countless others all did in America.” “There’s nothing to say.”
‘a small keg of the vertiable elixir of Eden. (Every Norman knows that the apple of the Bible is symbolic;’"Food prices will rise so high that some people will starve; others will be forced to decrease the effective amount of land they use and shift to lower quality diets." He does so because he doesn't want you to come into your kitchen at seven o'clock and find a plateful of cold chops and egg there. Caius: By gar, me vill kill de priest: for he speak for a jack-an-ape to Ann Page. “The roof slowly gathered flame, then rapidly, then with such astonishing speed and heat that pyrogenic lightning - the kind normally generated by forest fires - began flashing over the doomed cathedral.”A short time later, the dark night was illuminated by a celestial glow and the air trembled to the terrible majesty of angelic music. "It should be a shade darker." “Harry, your eyesight really is awful,” said Hermione, as she put on glasses.“But the owl lay motionless and pathetic as a toy on the floor of her cage.”
“It had been three years since Rickon.” “It was a Thursday, the first time, I was wiping down the kitchen table and mother was standing by the window.”"She had quite a lot of sex appeal, too, if you really want to know." “And joyfully laughing, he continued to lead her along toward the dining room”“The fulfilled lover has no need to write, to transmit, to reproduce.”“Salander had made plain that she did not want Armansky to act as some sort of worried stepfather, and since their agreement he had been careful never to behave like one, but in reality he would never stop worrying about her.”“Craster married all his daughters.”‘Two roses for Beth, Two scoldings for Joe, Two ribbons for Frannie, With a ho-diddle-ho!’
"I'd smell where they were, and go save them, and when Robb went to battle I'd fight beside him like Grey Wind." He gasped, “But Dagny, you’re a woman!" 'I claim birth-right, and blood-right-- and death-right!' " “‘What do you want out of life?’ I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.” "To strike you dead?"“Isn’t it strange that I know you’d risk your life to save mine…but I don’t know what your favorite color is?”
Octavia’s light evergreen skin, which now hangs too loosely, as if her body were a slowly deflating balloon. Where had she come from? She seemed overwhelmed with anger more than she was with the pain she must have been suffering from.When a child has an ear infection, pus collects behind the ear drum and causes pain and often fever.
“I begin to weary of the vastness, the endlessness of this place.”Jon hesitated, then nodded slowly. “Can you climb down, or shall I bring a ladder?” ‘And he went and walked up and down in the Filbert walk - just half hidden by the rails, and half seen; and he cuddled his pillow, just like a baby; and talked to it all the nonsense people do.’” “He was singing the news with his old, out-of-tune voice, accompanying himself with the same archaic accordion that Sir Walter Raleigh had given him in the Guianas and keeping time with his great walking feet that were cracked from the saltpeter.” Charlie sighed and gave up for the moment, though I imagine he would revisit the subject when we were alone again, He heaved himself to his feet and headed for the TV, Just like every other night. “ "He wandered down the halls and popped into the first office that took his fancy, although he was never certain whose office it was."“The soundproofed glass and under-floor heating created the effect of a luxurious time capsule that had been propelled back to the Neolithic age.”“In range of my glance I spotted Salman Rushdie, Charlie Rose, and Lou Reed.”“They were all kinds of men—literate men, and ignorant men, clean men and dirty men—but all of them had restlessness in common.” “They pursued him up the M4 that night until he crashed his car by junction twelve”
"The Magisterium is alive with speculation; one branch says one thing, another is investigating something else, and each of them is trying to keep its discoveries secret from the rest. Having “solved” the problem of more efficient locomotion, some of the dinosaurs known as therapsids (Gk. thera= heal, close+L. apsid=arch), or mammal-like reptiles, may also have taken the first steps toward solving the problem of thermoregulation. This is not a sexy problem (like heroin addiction ), or even an interesting one (like the entanglements expressed in Rufus Wainright’s “Instant Pleasure” or Sloan’s “Underwhelmed”). “The question of designing “experience” is frequently debated in design circles, and particularly in educational circles where students have a tendency to mistake software as a way to transform themselves miraculously into film directors.” Other early films of a similar stripe include Dream of Rarebit Fiend by Edwin S Porter.
”Far more than the United States, Britain exemplifies Schumpeter’s model of democracy as an electoral competition between organized parties.” I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring: I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men and the colours of things: I took the drama, the most objective form known to art, and made it as personal a mode of expression as the lyric or the sonnet, at the same time that I widened its range and enriched its characterisation: drama, novel, poem in rhyme, poem in prose, subtle or fantastic dialogue, whatever I touched I made beautiful in a new mode of beauty: to truth itself I gave what is false no less than is true as its rightful province, and showed that the false and the true are merely forms of intellectual existence. “Forces in the world will tell you you’re a victim- of your family, your race, your past, your history.”“This approach assumes that if people are fearful that a particular habit is hurting their health, they will change their behavior to reduce their fear.”“In retrospect it seems unthinkable to us now that it might have been otherwise, but we forget just how easily people forsake their tongues - as the Celts did in Spain and France, as the Viking did in Normandy, and as the Italians, Poles, Africans, Russians, and countless others all did in America.” “There’s nothing to say.”
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Date: 2012-09-20 01:13 am (UTC)The Magic Faraway Tree was slightly closer to someone else's hand than my copy is to mine... but not very far from the book I did grab.
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Date: 2012-09-20 03:04 am (UTC)