Nov. 25th, 2006

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From [livejournal.com profile] alixtii:

Take the five books nearest you, and use the following sentences to make a passage:

Book 1 - first sentence
Book 2 - last sentence, page 50
Book 3 - second sentence, page 100
Book 4 - next to last sentence, page 150
Book 5 - final sentence


.....

It ended with a dream. Ten minutes of instruction hadn't made me a crack shot. I can explain. Why, all his behaviours did make their retire to the court of his eye, peeping through desire; his heart, like an agate, with your print impress'd, proud with his form, in his eye pride express'd: his tongue, all impatient to speak and not see, did stumble with haste in his eyesight to be; all senses to that sense did make their repair, to feel only looking on fairest of fair, methought all his senses were lock'd in his eye, as jewels in crystal for some prince to buy; who ten'dring their own worth from where they were glass'd, did point you to buy them, along as you pass'd. Then he is a dead man said Joe Byrne he has just decided.

.....

And, just because that was possibly the awesomest passage ever, the books:

Kushiel's Avatar, Jacqueline Carey
One for the Money, Janet Evanovich
Everyone Worth Knowing, Lauren Weisberger
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Oxford University Press (and particularly, Love's Labour's Lost)
True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey

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Be cool, Gail. Be cool.

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