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nomad soul
Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 11454 Location: The real world
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 10:23 am Post subject: It's International Book Week - post a sentence |
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It's International Book Week. Grab the closest book to you, turn to page 52, and post the fifth sentence. Don't mention the title of the book!
"�Ah,� says he, �you can go ashore, if you like, and stay,� he says; �but as for the ship, she�ll beat up for more, by thunder!�" |
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Shroob
Joined: 02 Aug 2010 Posts: 1339
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 11:39 am Post subject: |
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'Had the Battle of France continued for even a few more weeks instead of ending so abruptly in disaster, the RAF's inability ot support the British Army effectively might have been even more embarrassingly exposed.' |
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Dedicated
Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 972 Location: UK
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 12:05 pm Post subject: |
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" In another drawing, he sliced through the brain in deft horizontal sections - a human CT scanner, centuries before its time - to demonstrate the relationship between the cisterns and the ventricles." |
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Sashadroogie
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 11061 Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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Ioganson, a pupil of Konstantin Korovin (1861 - 1939), delights in the evocation of character, in the creation of narrative drama, in the decorative possibilities of peasant dress and in a broad painterly execution that is typical of nineteenth-century Russian realism.
Nomad Soul, what a great idea! |
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 13859 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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Hey! It's International Book Week! The rules: grab the closest book to you, turn to page 52, post the 5th sentence.
"In other words, that the fate of a person or a country could be foreseen in various ways."
(Grammatically, it's not really a sentence, but it's written as one.)
Regards,
John |
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Kofola
Joined: 20 Feb 2009 Posts: 159 Location: Slovakia
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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'Moreover, dyes were not yet colour-fast, or even close to it, adding a further powerful incentive to stay dry.' |
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Cool Teacher
Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 930 Location: Here, There and Everywhere! :D
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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"They were marvellous caterpillars." |
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Cool Teacher
Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 930 Location: Here, There and Everywhere! :D
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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Shroob wrote: |
'Had the Battle of France continued for even a few more weeks instead of ending so abruptly in disaster, the RAF's inability ot support the British Army effectively might have been even more embarrassingly exposed.' |
I'm guessing the new Antony Beeovr book about WWII or maybe Max Hastings. |
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Cool Teacher
Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 930 Location: Here, There and Everywhere! :D
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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johnslat wrote: |
Hey! It's International Book Week! The rules: grab the closest book to you, turn to page 52, post the 5th sentence.
"In other words, that the fate of a person or a country could be foreseen in various ways."
(Grammatically, it's not really a sentence, but it's written as one.)
Regards,
John |
I'm guessing something modernish (1950s-1990s, no earlier or later, hmmmm....or maybe English 1930s or 1920s hmmm..... ) |
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Cool Teacher
Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 930 Location: Here, There and Everywhere! :D
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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Dedicated wrote: |
" In another drawing, he sliced through the brain in deft horizontal sections - a human CT scanner, centuries before its time - to demonstrate the relationship between the cisterns and the ventricles." |
The Emperor of All Maladies. I Googled. |
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 13859 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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Dear Cool Teacher,
I'll 'fess up: Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder, 1994.
Regards,
John |
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Cool Teacher
Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 930 Location: Here, There and Everywhere! :D
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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johnslat wrote: |
Dear Cool Teacher,
I'll 'fess up: Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder, 1994.
Regards,
John |
Oooh! I read that once. Or started reading it but neve finished it. Was it good?
My sister had it and I was the family philospher so natuarally everyone in the family wanted to know my verdict. I read the bit abot Sartre but wasn't sure if the writer really gave a good explanation. |
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 13859 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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Dear Cool Teacher,
It's a "survey course" in Western philosophy cleverly disguised as fiction. Oh, admittedly, it's somewhat didactic, but I like to reread it every ten years or so as a kind of refresher course.
I like it - but it may not be to everyones taste.
Regards,
John |
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Isla Guapa
Joined: 19 Apr 2010 Posts: 1520 Location: Mexico City o sea La Gran Manzana Mexicana
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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Such fun! Here's my contribution:
At last we reached the open glass door of a small bar, its dark-red walls hung with photographs of the company, and we were in the presence of a little gnome-like man, wearing a bow tie and a double-breasted suit, and that cheerily smiling but really quite expressionless apple-cheeked sort of face you see on some ventriloquist's dolls. |
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Dedicated
Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 972 Location: UK
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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Isla Guapa,
This is from "Forever Rumpole : The Best of the Rumpole Stories".
I agree this is great fun ! |
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