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« Reply #45 on: February 14, 2009, 07:44:28 am » |
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31) It was a rainy, grey day, and Jill Pole was crying behind the gym. I knew one! Woo! The Silver Chair, C. S. Lewis. 33) "We should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. "The wildlings are dead." |
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« Reply #46 on: February 14, 2009, 09:09:26 am » |
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31) It was a rainy, grey day, and Jill Pole was crying behind the gym. I knew one! Woo The Silver Chair, C. S. Lewis. I picked one I didn't have to look up. :^) [ET remove weird characters]
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« Reply #47 on: February 14, 2009, 11:25:10 am » |
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Now that I'm using a proper-sized keyboard and not my phone, here's 4 books from next to my bed. Not quite random; I ruled out the Fox Trot collection for a one-word sentence. 34) The five women fell silent as they climbed single file on the narrow woodland track, higher and higher through the long summer twilight, with the soft duff of the forest floor quiet beneath their sandals--or in one case, boot-heels. 35) The man who was not Terrance O'Grady had come quietly. 36) Roger, aged seven, and no longer the youngest of the family, ran in wide zigzags, to and fro, across the steep field that sloped up from the lake to Holly Howe, the farm where they were staying for part of the summer holidays. 37) (The epigraph which is less obscure than the first sentence.) Four No-Doz and Eight Meg of RAM. And an easy one for those of you who feel uncultured: 38) In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. ... I'll be quiet now.  |
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« Reply #48 on: February 14, 2009, 11:58:45 am » |
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35) The man who was not Terrance O'Grady had come quietly.
Sharon Lee, Steve Miller, Agent of Change.
36) Roger, aged seven, and no longer the youngest of the family, ran in wide zigzags, to and fro, across the steep field that sloped up from the lake to Holly Howe, the farm where they were staying for part of the summer holidays.
And that's Arthur Ransome, isn't it? The first one, what's it called, Swallows and Amazons, right?
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"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living."
L. Annaeus Seneca, Epistles
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« Reply #49 on: February 14, 2009, 05:21:42 pm » |
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32) It was a dark and stormy night.
I'm thinking of a particular book with 32, but also curious how many others there are.
A Wrinkle In Time! Blast, now I have to come up with another. Nope, my last line given is not from anything by deLint. I'm astounded that it's that difficult. |
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« Reply #50 on: February 14, 2009, 08:32:44 pm » |
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Yes to Swallows and Amazons, yes to A Wrinkle in Time.
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« Reply #51 on: February 15, 2009, 02:03:33 pm » |
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The convalescent will post an absurdly easy one, and then go to bed:
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
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« Reply #52 on: February 15, 2009, 02:59:41 pm » |
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyOh, wait, answering that means I have to come up with another, doesn't it? meep. Have we done "They never turn the lights off in Grand Central; and they may lock the doors between one and five-thirty a.m., but the place never quite becomes still." ? |
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« Reply #53 on: February 15, 2009, 04:53:28 pm » |
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I owe one, don't I? I suppose I should continue being obscure.
'When Rome was first a city, its rulers were kings.'
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"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living."
L. Annaeus Seneca, Epistles
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« Reply #54 on: February 15, 2009, 05:49:22 pm » |
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Sorry it took so long. Here's the new line:
Once when I was six years old I saw a beautiful picture in a book about the primeval forest called True Stories.
Antoine St. Exupery's The Little Prince (or at least one translation; I seem to recall the picture being magnificent rather than beautiful the first time I read it). Jack Holloway found himself squinting, the orange sun full in his eyes. |
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« Reply #55 on: February 15, 2009, 08:26:37 pm » |
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Jack Holloway found himself squinting, the orange sun full in his eyes.
Little Fuzzy! *g*
"Several centuries (or so) ago, in a country whose name doesn't matter, there was a tall, skinny, straggly-bearded old wizard named Prospero, and not the one you are thinking of, either."
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Chaz: "As if puberty weren't stressful enough."
Todd: "See? That's why we're better than all those other law enforcement agencies. Correct use of the subjunctive."
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« Reply #56 on: February 16, 2009, 03:25:15 am » |
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Sorry it took so long. Here's the new line:
Once when I was six years old I saw a beautiful picture in a book about the primeval forest called True Stories.
Antoine St. Exupery's The Little Prince (or at least one translation; I seem to recall the picture being magnificent rather than beautiful the first time I read it). Jack Holloway found himself squinting, the orange sun full in his eyes. Finally! And here I thought that one was easy. I was waiting for TexAnne to get it. I took i from what is, as far as I know, the only approved English translation. |
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« Reply #57 on: February 16, 2009, 09:31:28 am » |
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Heh. For one thing, I've never read the English version, and for another, that is my least favorite French book of all time ever.
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« Reply #58 on: February 16, 2009, 10:07:43 am » |
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Aw! It's one of my favorite books of all time. I even own it in Latin.
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« Reply #59 on: February 16, 2009, 10:49:48 am » |
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I find the rose unworthy of the prince.
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