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"Get away," said Montag.
From Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Rules:
* Get the book nearest to you. Right now.
* Go to page 56.
* Find the 5th sentence.
* Write this sentence - either here or on your blog.
* Copy these instructions as commentary of your sentence.
* Don't look for your favorite book or your coolest but really the nearest.
This one was on my desk because I was saving it for Matthew M., who wanted it for his Banned Books project. It's filled with dialogue, so sentences that stand on their own are a little hard to chance upon. I kind of like the 6th sentence: "Life becomes one big pratfall, Montag; everything bang, boff, and wow!"
Started at Stephen's Lighthouse, found at Blue Skunk. Now it's your turn.
From Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Rules:
* Get the book nearest to you. Right now.
* Go to page 56.
* Find the 5th sentence.
* Write this sentence - either here or on your blog.
* Copy these instructions as commentary of your sentence.
* Don't look for your favorite book or your coolest but really the nearest.
This one was on my desk because I was saving it for Matthew M., who wanted it for his Banned Books project. It's filled with dialogue, so sentences that stand on their own are a little hard to chance upon. I kind of like the 6th sentence: "Life becomes one big pratfall, Montag; everything bang, boff, and wow!"
Started at Stephen's Lighthouse, found at Blue Skunk. Now it's your turn.
posted by franceylibrarian at 3:06 PM
16 Comments:
When Candy had been doomed six times, and wanted to sit quietly and gather her breath, Malingo was ready to take a ride on the Spirit Train to Hell.
Abarat by Clive Barker
Moreover, I had not yet found the certain proof for which I was seeking, by which it would be clear beyond doubt that the true forecasts given by the astrologers when consulted were uttered by chance or by luck, not from the science of studying the stars.
-St. Augustine, “Confessions”
"And see what kind of seeds come popping out," Kalten added bleakly.
-David Eddings, "The Hidden City"
They'd built a bonfire by th edge of the lake, small enough to avoid attracting attention but big enough to give warmth and cant eerie, flickering light.
Evernight by Claudia Gray
"Is it the invasion of Europe, Mr.Savo?" I asked him eagerly.
-Chaim Potok, "The Chosen"
He joined a cattle buying business, then started selling insurance.
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, by Vicki Myron
"They were fighting for nothing."
Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, The Chomsky-Foucault Debate on Human Nature
Oh! Je voudrais madame, je voudrais bien m'en aller.
La Chanson Québécoise de La Bolduc à aujourd'hui
Roger Charberland et André Gaulin
"Such fables as those of Aesop are a simple form of allegory; they seem to be telling us about animals but are really telling us about human behavior."
Western Wind: an Introduction to Poetry but John Frederick Nims
Nearest book:
En voyant l'air hilare de Chick, il secoua de nouveau la tete, compatissant, cette fois, et un demi-sourire se dessina sur ses levres.
-L'Ecume des Jours by Boris Vian
Nearest English language book:
It is this compliant animal, to the public no different from the others in size and apparent ferocity, that will be the star of the show, while the trainer leaves the beta and gamma lions, more cantankerous subordinates, sitting on their colourful barrels on the edge of the ring.
-Life of Pi by Yann Martel
She stepped around Zoe and went up the front steps.
"The School Story" by Andrew Clements
"We'll need more height....Give it another quarter of a mile!"
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" by J.K. Rowling
"Limpy wondered where he would find a less angry Games official"
Toad Rage by Morris Gleitzman
This is awesome. I wonder if it's at all possible to string these together into some sort of semi-coherent narrative? Hmmm...
"And then it flies back-"
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
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Our apologies to Ms. Brenda Gordy. Fifth sentence of the AT&T Real Yellow Pages.
Closest book.
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