International Book Week

[Lemuel Underwing]

"O what limb rending pains I feel."

from *America (a Prophecy) *by William Blake


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:32 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >> 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"
>
>
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