International Book Week
jochen stremmel
jstremmel at gmail.com
Sat Sep 21 01:55:42 CDT 2013
Don't mention the title. Copy
the rules as part of your post.
2013/9/20 Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>:
> "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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