Another supposedly fun thing ...
Bekah
Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jan 16 20:14:40 CST 2009
Just picked this up outside my front door because UPS delivered it.
"Longstreet sat brooding."
Page 56, sentence 5 of "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara.
Bekah
On Jan 16, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Bekah wrote:
> "She was tanned in a nice way, her dress blue, and her eyes were
> blue and glittering, and she was only a few years younger than my
> own mother."
>
> - Out Stealing Horses by Per Pettersen -
> pretty good but the man is no Pynchon or Borges - shoot, - not
> even Stieg Larsson (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo).
>
> Bekah
> this was the book closest to me at the moment
>
>
> On Jan 16, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Daniel Julius wrote:
>
>> "These things occurred in the eighty-ninth year of the Hegira."
>>
>> - "Et Cetera" in Collected Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Dave Monroe
>> <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1. Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
>> 2. Turn to page 56.
>> 3. Find the fifth sentence.
>> 4. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your
>> LiveJournal.
>> 5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most
>> intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.
>
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