quick meme before work!
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chroniclers:
♦ Take four books off your bookshelf
♦ Write the first sentence
♦ Write the last sentence on page fifty
♦ Write the second sentence on page one hundred
♦ Write the next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
♦ Write the final sentence of the book
♦ Let your friends guess what book it is
ONE
a) I'm in the kitchen cooking spaghetti when the woman calls.
b) Just to get killed by some clunky stick of a boomerang?
c) What was there to be afraid of?
d) It came from somewhere far away -- a funny, muffled sort of rubbing sort of sound.
e) They will never be coming back.
TWO
a) Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys, after he had sacked Troy's sacred citadel.
b) All night long and into the dawn she ran on her journey.
c) He spoke, and the river stayed his current, stopped the waves breaking, and made all quiet in front of him and let him get safely into the outlet of the river.
d) "Hear me, Poseidon who circle the earth, dark-haired."
e) And pledges for the days to come, sworn to by both sides, were settled by Pallas Athene, daughter of Zeus of the aegis, who had likened herself in appearance and voice to Mentor.
THREE
a) What's the worst possible thing you can call a woman?
b) Much in the same way we're supposed to be sexy but not give it up.
c) Oh, and by the way -- your taxes pay for these places.
d) Then that way, the next time you see some display of a played-out romantic ideal, you can laugh it off.
e) So let's speak for ourselves.
FOUR
a) Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months and nineteen days ago today, the people of Paris awoke to hear all the churchbells in the triple enclosure of the City, the University and the Town in full voice.
b) Anyone who has tossed a stone into a pond full of frogs, or fired a gun into a flock of birds, will have some idea of the effect these incongruous words had in the midst of the general attentiveness.
c) The legless man, meanwhile, was on his feet, and had put his heavy iron bowl on Gringoire's head, while the blind man was staring him in the face with blazing eyes.
d) As for the function we were talking about a moment ago, it fills that to perfection: it is a stock exchange in France just as it would have been a temple in Greece.
e) When they tried to release him from the skeleton he was embracing, he crumbled into dust.
Man, I really feel I don't own many books that could be guessed like this!
In other news, I really hate this time of the year when the sun has set before I even leave for work.
chroniclers:♦ Take four books off your bookshelf
♦ Write the first sentence
♦ Write the last sentence on page fifty
♦ Write the second sentence on page one hundred
♦ Write the next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
♦ Write the final sentence of the book
♦ Let your friends guess what book it is
ONE
a) I'm in the kitchen cooking spaghetti when the woman calls.
b) Just to get killed by some clunky stick of a boomerang?
c) What was there to be afraid of?
d) It came from somewhere far away -- a funny, muffled sort of rubbing sort of sound.
e) They will never be coming back.
TWO
a) Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys, after he had sacked Troy's sacred citadel.
b) All night long and into the dawn she ran on her journey.
c) He spoke, and the river stayed his current, stopped the waves breaking, and made all quiet in front of him and let him get safely into the outlet of the river.
d) "Hear me, Poseidon who circle the earth, dark-haired."
e) And pledges for the days to come, sworn to by both sides, were settled by Pallas Athene, daughter of Zeus of the aegis, who had likened herself in appearance and voice to Mentor.
THREE
a) What's the worst possible thing you can call a woman?
b) Much in the same way we're supposed to be sexy but not give it up.
c) Oh, and by the way -- your taxes pay for these places.
d) Then that way, the next time you see some display of a played-out romantic ideal, you can laugh it off.
e) So let's speak for ourselves.
FOUR
a) Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months and nineteen days ago today, the people of Paris awoke to hear all the churchbells in the triple enclosure of the City, the University and the Town in full voice.
b) Anyone who has tossed a stone into a pond full of frogs, or fired a gun into a flock of birds, will have some idea of the effect these incongruous words had in the midst of the general attentiveness.
c) The legless man, meanwhile, was on his feet, and had put his heavy iron bowl on Gringoire's head, while the blind man was staring him in the face with blazing eyes.
d) As for the function we were talking about a moment ago, it fills that to perfection: it is a stock exchange in France just as it would have been a temple in Greece.
e) When they tried to release him from the skeleton he was embracing, he crumbled into dust.
Man, I really feel I don't own many books that could be guessed like this!
In other news, I really hate this time of the year when the sun has set before I even leave for work.
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Date: 2009-11-06 02:07 am (UTC)...One has me very curious though.
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Date: 2009-11-06 07:36 am (UTC)haha, this meme is a fun way to find new reading material! xD I'll post the answer soon.
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Date: 2009-11-06 07:03 am (UTC)Happily, however, I can be the first one to nail 3: He's a Stud, She's a Slut, Valenti.
Is 1 going to be a mystery?
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Date: 2009-11-06 07:30 am (UTC)There are a couple people on my flist who might be able to guess number one, I have to wait for their timezone to swing round before I can consider this contest closed and post the answers. xD
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Date: 2009-11-06 07:53 am (UTC)Well, if it's not Valenti, then I just don't know! I'm sorry I'm such a bad feminist. :(
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Date: 2009-11-06 08:00 am (UTC)hahaha srsly come on. You just read this book. xD
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