International Book Week

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Yes, I knew that. Was just making an observation that someone had, unbeknownst to me, already made. So, since BE isn't applicable, my newest quote:

The visitor stopped short as she noticed Nancy for the first time.

from: The Mystery At Lilac Inn (A Nancy Drew Mystery Story)

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>

>
>
>Oh sorry, I was clearly unclear: I was quoting from V, not BE.
>
>On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
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>> BE doesn't have a 5th sentence on p. 52.
>> Laura
>>    
>>
>>       On Fri, 20 Sep 2013, Antonin Scriabin wrote:
>>
>>
>> And he clearly had BE in mind when working on V....Page 52, 5th sentence:
>> "New York must have been for her a city of smoke, its streets the
>> courtyards of limbo, its bodies like wraiths."
>>
>> [I won't get BE in my hands until Monday, a local bookstore let me down.
>> Meanwhile, am halfway through a reread of The Public Burning and liking
>> it immensely, quite a bit more than I did in early 90s. To begin with, I
>> feel now so much more sensitive to different registers in Coover's novel.]
>>
>>
>> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
>> > lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > > Really would like to join this, but the closest book to me is 'Bleeding
>> > > Edge' (Jonathan Cape edition), and on page 52 there simply is no 5th
>> > > sentence! An anti-Pynchon conspiracy?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On 20.09.2013 15:11, Keith Davis wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> It's International Book Week. The rules: Grab the closest book to you,
>> > >> turn to page 52, post the 5th sentence. Don't mention the title. Copy
>> > >> the rules as part of your post.
>> > >>
>> > >> "The ancient child asks
>> > >> How should you see"