28/10 game

[HisLady]

I brushed my teeth and said prayers and got into bed.

The Time Traveller's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
A book TheEarl's recommended to me, and it really is an amazing read - made me cry though, and now I'm just waiting for TheEarl to get home so I can make sure he's okay.

 

[Grushenka]

At work, so this is a break and lunch time read, but including a continuing sentence on p.28 there were only 8 sentences on the page; so still counting, and therefore the 2nd sentence on p.29:

"Some of the sixteen possible line-patterns might not be strictly decasyllabic (they might have as few as eight or as many as twelve syllables), but five of the syllables in every such line would still receive metrical stress."

from Shakespeare's Metrical Art by George T. Wright


p.s. to HisLady: Loved The Time Traveller's Wife.

 

[oggbashan]

"Set thine house in order" Bible Isaiah xxxviii.1

Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Og

 

[Grushenka]

"Set thine house in order" Bible Isaiah xxxviii.1

Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

I love concision.

I love Oxford concision.

Given the above quote I wonder if they plan a "Concise Oxford Dictionary of Concise Quotations".

 

[oggbashan]

I love concision.

I love Oxford concision.

Given the above quote I wonder if they plan a "Concise Oxford Dictionary of Concise Quotations".

They have so many reference books under the Oxford imprint that I'm not surprised if they have but it might be called the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Maxims.

I do have the paperback Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (and a later edition hardback). Page 28 of the paperback Concise has these:

The BUSIEST men have the most leisure.
BUSINESS before pleasure.
BUY in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest.
You BUY land, you buy stones; you buy meat, you buy bones.
Let the BUYER beware.

Og

 

[Remec]

"An acidic burst weapon functions as a corrosive weapon (see page 31)."

Dungeons and Dragons Magic Item Compendium
Andy Collins, et al...

 

[Stella_Omega]

Reaching the top of the rise, he was faintly disappointed to find the cottage just where he had expected it to be."

Neal Stephenson, "The System of The World"

A truly satisfying ending to a fabulous trilogy! The Hanging of Jack The Coiner kept me up till 3:00 last night

 

[rgraham666]

"But there was enough spice in the life to keep things interesting."

Alan Dean Foster - Bloodhype.

Stella? Neal Stephenson rocks! I think The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer was the best thing I read in the last decade.

 

[Stella_Omega]

"But there was enough spice in the life to keep things interesting."

Alan Dean Foster - Bloodhype.

Stella? Neal Stephenson rocks! I think The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer was the best thing I read in the last decade.

yes, great book! Have you read "Snow Crash"? I can't remember the elderly teacher that passes away- but you read about her as a young woman, in Snow Crash.

 

[tickledkitty]

"How 'bout sitting down or something, Ackley kid?"

The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger

 

[Tom Collins]

And yet there is peace and sactuary in religeon too--it is the asylum to which all poor crazed sinners come at last, the door which will always opento us if we can only find the courage to knock.

The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson


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The red-eyed clown appeared to be both wrung by grief and ripped by anger.

Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz

 

[Equinoxe]

"I crept quickly up the slope so as to be able to accompany the fat man on his way, for I truly loved him."

from "Description of a Struggle" in The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

The book nearest me is a Marvel Comic book anthology ("Dr Strange Volume 2"), so I picked the 10th speech bubble on page 28:

END THEM, TAZZA? RATHER, KNOW THAT IS ONLY THE BEGINNING!


Ah, Stan Lee...

 

[TE999]

"The answer from the brain will tell you to pull your finger away from the offending hammer, but the advice usually comes too late."

'How a Fly Walks Upside Down...and other curious facts'

Martin M. Goldwyn 1979

 

[Stella_Omega]

The book next to me has a big picture on the twenty-eighth page, and on the next
page are eight lines of verse, thusly;

The Pobble swam fast and well
And when boats or ships came near him
He tinkledy-binkledy-winkled a bell
So that all aboard could hear him.
And all the sailors and admirals cried
When they saw him nearing the further side;
"He has gone to fish, for his Aunt Jobiska's
'Runcible cat with crimson whiskers!"

-The Owl & The Pussycat and Other Nonsense Poems by Edward Lear

(Great illustrations in this one!)

 

[MagicaPractica]

"Seeing the U.S.A. in a Chevrolet at fifty-five miles an hour on her way home."

Defining Dulcie by Paul Acampora

Sounds good to me. The book is quite a good middle grade - young adult novel too.

 

[scriptordelecto]

"Charles Wallace did gather things out of his mother's mind, out of Meg's mind, as another child might gather daisies in a field."

A Wind in the Door ~ Madeleine L'Engle

One of my favorite YA authors. I've re-read all of her books every couple of years since I was about ten.

 

[MagicaPractica]

"Charles Wallace did gather things out of his mother's mind, out of Meg's mind, as another child might gather daisies in a field."

A Wind in the Door ~ Madeleine L'Engle

One of my favorite YA authors. I've re-read all of her books every couple of years since I was about ten.

I knew we were kindred spirits.

 

[blackhaus7]

To feed on such sweet honey,
And kill the bees that yield it with your stings.

From my complete works of Shakespeare. Page 28 takes us right into the middle of Two Gentlemen of Verona.

The Earl

Page 28 of my Complete Works of Shakespeare Volume 1 gives me King Henry VI, Part I, Scene I.:
He ne'er lift up his hand but conquered.

 

[TE999]

"Certainly the founders weren't hostile to religion or the clergy as, say the French Revolutionaries were soon to become."

"I Love Paul Revere, Whether He Rode or Not".

Richard Schenkman

 

[fcdc]

Oh, this should be good. I had a book out for a story for here that I know will at least provide interesting fodder for this, so:

Do It!: Scenarios of the Revolution, by Jerry Rubin (Introduction by Eldridge Cleaver (!!!)).

p. 28, sentence 10:

"The number of Nobel Prize winners at his university."

... damn.

p. 10, sentence 10:

"None of us knew, that night, what the future would be, except that we all knew that we would be trying."

Now that's far more interesting, and nicely inspiring.

 

[scheherazade_79]

"Christian Leroy, of Belgium, performed a rock concert for three thousand cows at a local market." - Ripley's Believe it or Not

 

[matriarch]

I brushed my teeth and said prayers and got into bed.

The Time Traveller's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
A book TheEarl's recommended to me, and it really is an amazing read - made me cry though, and now I'm just waiting for TheEarl to get home so I can make sure he's okay.

The wife has this, has read it several times, and has been nagging me to read it for ages. I'll get round to it one day.


My contribution:

"The young woman's eyes were coal black in a face that seemed bleached of color."

Murder by tradition by Katherine V. Forrest (A Kate Delafield Mystery - lesbian detective)

By complete contrast, the book next to it, is a biography of HIldegard of Bingen, by Fona Maddocks. That extract couldn't be more different. It's part of the section dealing with the burial rites that take place when an anchorite nun gives up one world to begin another (hence the full burial rites). The sentence in question is part of a long list:

" She then places two candles at the altar and returns to her place, waiting prostrate through the readings and homily."

 

[joeys-game]

"Thus did Odin speak before the began
when he rose up in after time."

from The Book Of Runes..
that sentence was from a poem called, The Poetic Edda..spoken by Odin, the great Rune Master.

 

[EmeraldKitten]

It was as if she became the music as she heard it, so naturally did each chord follow another, so liquidly and easily did the melodies erupt and fade and pulse again from somewhere else, in some other voice, all of it touching and holding her in some deeply yearning and unsuspected place.

'The Devil's Cradle' ~ Kate Stewart