Fun Literary Meme

[Dagwood]

Saw this on the internet, and thought it would be fun.

1. Grab the nearest book. Don't search around and look for the coolest book. Grab the book actually next to you.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth full sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence along with the name of the book.

Here is mine: "In the center is gentle Venus, all dignity and promise of spiritual joy, and above her, the infant Cupid aims his loving arrows." The book is The Story of Painting by Sister Wendy Beckett.

 

[Diamondback]

"The revolver type of hand gun is basically popular in the United States and Great Britain."--Applegate, Col. Rex. Kill or Get Killed, USMC FMFRP 12-80, 26 Sept 1991.

Closest "book" I had, in the form of a PDF on the laptop. Didn't think page 161 of he Classic Industries Firebird catalog would have 5 sentences, so...

 

[Viola]

"They stood there on their unlikely orange feet and did nothing." - Chattery Teeth, Stephen King, in the Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection.

-Viola

 

[Amy Jeanne]

The book nearest to me didn't go up to page 161 so I had to grab the one next to it...

And page 161 on THAT book was a picture!

So the third book in on my bookshelf is...

"Sometimes, alternative takes were used to save a second camera man."
-Mary Pickford Rediscovered by Kevin Brownlow

 

[HadleyH]

I loooooooooooove this thread!

"At the window of the cretonne-hung room a box full of hyacinths formed an obstacle that the Comtesse did not surmount"

Name of book: Paris Album 1900-1914.
Author: Jean Cocteau.

 

[Polka Dot]

I grabbed the nearest book in English.

"Thoughts can be trusted because they embody that which might never actually be done, and yet in the later passages, which she does not quote, thoughts are not so trustworthy."

The Crime in Mind: Criminal Responsibility and the Victorian Novel, Lisa Rodensky

 

[HadleyH]

Oh please, can I do another one?

"What you really mean is that human beings can be taken over, possessed by something outside, something greater, and that love is one of these manifestations".

Name of book: " Smile Please"
Author: Jean Rhys.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Hmm,..interesting idea, get ready for some profundity.

"Every creation and invention in history has also been drawn from the Universal Mind, whether the person consciously knew that or not."
From, "The Secret".

 

[Doh!]

This could be more fun than playing telephone!

"Olly Whateley said he had seen a man and a woman in a green automobile drive up to the estate to take photographs."
--The Cases That Haunt Us, by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker

 

[Samsa]

The book nearest me had a chart on page 161, no sentences. The next closest book had the following for the fifth sentence:

The waiting room was bright
and too hot.​

Elizabeth Bishop, The Collected Poems.

 

[beaucaillou]

"She held, after all, no official command."



"Saint Joan of Arc," V. Sackville West. The Literary Guild. 1936.

 

[Elaina]

"Life's so unfair," she said on a bitter note.

Time out of mind by Kay Thorpe

 

[Sweet Polly Purebred]

"Listen, I have this large blue coffee can on the shelf and it is full of unanswered letters, this neither means that I like or dislike the people who have written them; it means that I am drunk or playing horses or sick or non electric, can't do, you know." - Selected Letters Vol.2 1965-1970; Charles Bukowski

 

[GwenLake]

Illustrative of the difference in transportation time between train and air-mail planes is the following schedule: New York to San Francisco, train 83 hours, air mail 31 hours; Chicago to New York, train 20 hours, air mail 9 hours; St. Paul to Dallas, train 37 hours, air mail 17 hours; Boston to Cleveland, train 16 hours, air mail 8 hours; Los Angeles to St. Louis, train 60 hours, air mail 26 hours.

Gregg Shorthand (Anniversary, 1929)

 

[griffer]

"Jazz, funk, and blues bands perform nearly every night at this rustic club right in the thick of the Frenchman Street action." -New Orleans, Fodor's

Planning a return trip, happen to be catching up on the post Katrina changes.

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

"By now the media were informed of Rocky and Bullwinkle"s network switch to prime time, resulting in a flurry of press items."

The Moose that Roared, by Keith Scott.

 

[Sweet Polly Purebred]

"By now the media were informed of Rocky and Bullwinkle"s network switch to prime time, resulting in a flurry of press items."

The Moose that Roared, by Keith Scott.

Great book!!

 

[pretty faythe]

And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.

Of mice and men

 

[drafttek]

"During a VFR practice instrument approach, you are responsible to comply with basic visual flight rules."
--Gleim's Instrument Pilot FAA Knowledge Test

 

[Harp]

There is nothing this king does not do or does not suffer in his desire to avert war
and consolidate peace...and exhibiting in this, as in everything else, a magnanimous
and truly royal character.

Desiderius Erasmus to Wolfgang Capito