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nomad soul · Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 1662 Location: Al Mamlaka

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!’"

Shroob · Joined: 02 Aug 2010 Posts: 657

'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.'

Dedicated · Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 647 Location: UK

" 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."

Sashadroogie · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 12:38 pm Post subject:

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!

johnslat · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 1:06 pm Post subject:

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.) Very Happy

Regards,
John

Kofola · Joined: 20 Feb 2009 Posts: 124 Location: Slovakia

'Moreover, dyes were not yet colour-fast, or even close to it, adding a further powerful incentive to stay dry.'

Cool Teacher · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 3:44 pm Post subject:

"They were marvellous caterpillars."

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johnslat · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:30 pm Post subject:

Dear Cool Teacher,

I'll 'fess up: Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder, 1994.

Regards,
John

Cool Teacher · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:53 pm Post subject:

johnslat · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 5:41 pm Post subject:

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

Isla Guapa · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 6:06 pm Post subject:

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.

Dedicated · Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 647 Location: UK

Isla Guapa,

This is from "Forever Rumpole : The Best of the Rumpole Stories".

I agree this is great fun !