Write down the 4th Sentence on the 23rd page of the book beside your hand

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

"apple-pie order has little to do with the culinary arts."

From Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins
The entry continues on with describing etymology and what not, behind the phrase.

[bouquin]

When one journeys from one homestead to the next nothing seems more likely than that they all bear the same name and that the same man and the same woman work them all; yet that is not so.

[terra mick]

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgements rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.
Non-Violent Communication: A Language o Life, Marshall B. Rosenberg

[bouquin]

And because no one answered or cared and a conversation went on without her, she felt profoundly lonely, suspecting once more for herself a particular doom of exclusion.

[bouquin]

She was referring to an old-fashioned bicycle of Mama's that I sometimes used.

[bouquin]

She is not one of us; she is not like us.

[figurered]

Le substitut du procureur s ecria, d un ton narquois.

[bouquin]

This result of her long and persistent economy seemed gigantic.

[qimissung]

"Chuck takes one step, grabs Derek by the upper arm and lifts him off the floor like a stick." No good comes of this, of course.

[bouquin]

It was not in the room known at the red house as Mr. Royall's "office" that he received his infrequent clients.

[bouquin]

She knocked, and a woman put her head out of a door on the other side of the courtyard and said that Mademoiselle had gone to London.

[chevalierdelame]

The ancient priests had said, "Thus far and no further.We set the limits to thought".

[bouquin]

What other future could Augusta possibly have expected?

[Sido]

She sounded dazed and vaguely surprised. :)

[lemonorange]

Since I'm reading with my smartphone, the page might be different...

"There were only Creoles that summer at Lebrun's."

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

[bouquin]

She was clever at her job.

[bouquin]

He never gets rattled.

[Pope of Eruke]

The earth below us, ripe and fresh with blood

Credo in Unam, The complete works of Arthur Rimbaud

[Lemonade]

Lies he not bed-rid? and again does nothing but what he did being childish?

The winter's tale, Shakespeare. Act IV, scene III, Polixenes, king of Bohemia.

[Buckthorn]

"It's not his real name" she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. Its one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants. Like Prospero is for you"

The night circus by Eric Morgrnstern

[bouquin]

He'd gone straight out and killed it, or so he thought, intending to dissect it at Bart's.

[Marbles]

<I'll have been paid. You watch.>

_Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird. Published Arrow Books 1997

Wow, it's portentous, or just meaningless?

[bouquin]

So she had five minutes of a kind of wild, open freedom during which anything might happen.

[Snowqueen]

His name had been talked about, his practice had increased; and moreover he could go to Les Bertaux just as he liked.

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

[perhapsican]

"Ashley noticed that the bottle was half empty, while Cade already appeared to be more than half full." From Revenge (aka The Stars' Tennis Balls) by Stephen Fry.

[bouquin]

When I stood close to the canvas, I noticed that parts of her body were covered with a fine hair.

[bouquin]

"Is there somewhere we can go to use the restroom?"

[Sido]

The little mermaid stood still for a minute looking at this horrible wood ; her heart beat with fear, and she would certainly have returned without attaining her object, had she not remembered the prince--and immortality.

-Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales-

[LadyDedlock]

"Our mission was strictly conventional, opium and hash, the primary export crop of terrorists around the world."

World War Z by Max Brooks.

[Marbles]

"It is not out of the quesiton; you have been absent-[minded lately].

Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

[bouquin]

She expects it; she feels the touch in advance, as birds feel shadow.

[Sido]

Alighting at Sixty-Ninth Street, he braced himself with a visible effort and started the long climb up the four flights of stairs.

- Young Men in Spats by P.G. Wodehouse -

[Bengt Mettyl]

Gosh, I fished vigorously around for a copy of this book that was so late in release anyway, but when I finally got it and started it I found it tough going. I put it aside until I was 'ready for it' so not to spoil my enjoyment. I have still to re-pick it up. I've read most of Ken Follett's stuff and of course he is a terrific writer. I vaguely wondered if this sequel was a 'we need 20,000 words by a week next Friday' kind of project. I do admire the way he applies himself to such painstaking research into his subjects.
Sorry, I have to go - there's a fruit-fly on my screen.

[neilgee]

They dream about fine thread

From Clouded Sky: poems by Miklos Radnoti

[Quietudity]

I was about to rush off and search the garden, when my mother told me that I must have some breakfast first.

[Carmilla]

Hi,

But now she had entered into a new current of feeling.

'Adam Bede' by George Eliot

[Sido]

Don Quixote begged of her to do him the favour to add hereafter the title of Lady to her name, and for his sake to be called from that time the Lady Tolosa; which she promised to do.
- Don Quixote by Cervantes -

[Calidore]

His pursuers were slowing now.

Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton

[Sido]

She fell silent and one of the young girls sang a song in the Greek tongue which Sharkan did not understand.
- The Book of THE THOUSAND NIGHTS and ONE NIGHT, Rendered from the literal and complete version of Dr. J. C. Mardrus; and collated with other sources; by E. Powys Mathers -

[bouquin]

She had been stunned at finding that a passionate love-affair was not, as her marriage had led her to believe, a prescription for general happiness.

[Jancarlo]

"They know nothing of the death and destruction which is near them, so that in one day they shall all perish."
-Homer's Odyssey - Signet Classics version

[uiscebeatha]

Bhí sé ina chónaí leis féin i detach beag ceanntuí in ascall an gleanna.

Well, the thread asked me to do it! Didn't say it was English Literature or English only! It's Irish - 'he lived by himself in a small, thatched house in a corner of the glen

[bouquin]

He scrambled up, and ran on, and this time, the crow only hovered above, though not very high up, and still following him, but silently, and no longer attempting to swoop down.

[Spotted Fever]

The only sailor whose eyes could have been called green was a tall man who amused the crowd on the quay by calling out cheerfully every time the planks fell: "All right! All right!".

~ James Joyce- Dubliners ~

[Buckthorn]

Love was much more nebulous than stains on linen rags - The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

[Sido]

But in the spring he succeeds in winning it back.
- Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder -

[bouquin]

So that, frequently, when, after much trouble and toil, I had, at length, succeeded in bringing her down, the breakfast was nearly half over; and black looks from 'mamma,' and testy observations from 'papa,' spoken at me, if not to me, were sure to be my meed: for few things irritated the latter so much as want of punctuality at meal times.

[romeoindespair]

No doubt the most exclusive drawing room, the leading house in the Faubourg SaintGermain was little or nothing after all those other mansions of which in turn I had dreamed.

the guermantes way marcel proust

[bouquin]

It fluttered a little, and began to move towards the window, dangerously close to the passengers' feet.

[bouquin]

By the report which he hastened over to Kellynch to make, Admiral Croft was a native of Somersetshire, who having acquired a very handsome fortune, was wishing to settle in his own country, and had come down to Taunton in order to look at some advertised places in that immediate neighbourhood, which, however, had not suited him; that accidentally hearing - (it was just as he had foretold, Mr. Shepherd observed, Sir Walter's concerns could not be kept a secret,) - accidentally hearing of the possibility of Kellynch Hall being to let, and understanding his (Mr. Shepherd's) connection with the owner, he had introduced himself to him in order to make particular inquiries, and had, in the course of a pretty long conference, expressed as strong an inclination for the place as a man who knew it only by description, could feel; and given Mr. Shephered, in his explicit account of himself, every proof of his being a most responsible, eligible tenant.

[Härt Noiz]

In the closing chapter of the first volume of The History of Sexuality and in his brief but significiant introduction to Herculine Barbin, Being the Recently Discovered Journals of a Nineteenth-Century Hermaphrodite, Foucault suggests that the category of sex, prior to any categorization of sexual difference, is itself constructed through a historically specific mode of sexuality.

Gender Trouble, Judith Butler

[bouquin]

I wanted to run after her and tell her I had nothing to do with Doreen, because she looked stern and hard-working and moral as an old-style European immigrant and reminded me of my Austrian grandmother.

[Vota]

When we reached Rome, I put myself under a master who was known as Il Firenzuola.

[bouquin]

I only saw it from the car as I drove past, you know; I was misled by the way it was folded as it hung in the window.

[Pompey Bum]

Among them were whites dressed all in leather who had made their living driving the herds of the “colonels,” the owners of great cattle ranches; full- blooded Indians with reddish skins whose great- great- grandfathers had gone about half naked and eaten the hearts of their enemies; mestizos who had been farm overseers, tinsmiths, blacksmiths, cobblers, or carpenters; and mulattoes and blacks who had been runaways from the sugarcane plantations on the coast and from the rack, the stocks, the floggings with bull pizzles and the brine thrown on the raw lash marks, and other punishments invented for slaves in the sugar factories.

[bouquin]

"Mrs. Mancini," she says, "needs a feeding tube."

[Calidore]

Third sentence included for context:

He gave her the firm-bordering-on-exasperation look. Because that made so much difference when you've been married for eleven years.

The Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton

[Pompey Bum]

Me enforce for the Jamaica Labour Party in green, and Shotta Sherrif control for the People’s National Party in orange, but them new boys enforce for the party in them back pocket.

[108 fountains]

After Heisenberg gave quantum theory its fully developed mathematical formalism with his Uncertainty Principle, he and other physicists began to question the nature of a physical or objective reality.

Mysticism and the New Physics by Michael Talbot

[NikolaiI]

I love Talbot- at least, he was very fascinating. . I've been trying to remember the name of one physicist. . Okay it was David Bohm. Very interesting stuff.

[108 fountains]

Fascinating for sure, but I don't accept many of his ideas even though a part of me wants to.

[bouquin]

I fiddled around Dad's desk, working out a couple of problems in calculus just for the hell of it.

[bouquin]

I fiddled around Dad's desk, working out a couple of problems in calculus just for the hell of it.

[WordsWillCome]

Wallace witnessed the worst impact of sin on humanity as he saw the violence of the Civil War and the Wild West.

Our Daily Bread by varied authors

[Sido]

Without giving us a name or names at this juncture, what do you feel you can tell us about Hong Kong?
- The BOURNE ULTIMATUM by Robert Ludlum-

[bouquin]

The furniture was quite in harmony with the room, consisting of three rickety old chairs, a painted table in one corner, on which lay books and papers thick with dust (showing how long it was since they had been touched), and, finally a large and very ugly sofa with ragged covers.

[bouquin]

"Look out of the window in about ten minutes and you'll see," the woman answered.

[Jalhan]

"We met in another long look."
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Turned out to be a relatively short sentence for this book.

[bouquin]

'There's going to be a fourth soon, I believe.'

[HalInc]

Brown never made it out of Harpers Ferry, nor did he even appear to have a plan for escaping, let alone arming hundreds of thousands of slaves.

[Sido]

From her grove, Sarai could also see a large part of the city and, towering over it like a mountain, the ziggurat, the Sublime Platform.
- Sarah by Marek Halter -

[gREGewILKINS]

"After reading these descriptions, passage from the Book of Mormon jumped out at me and took on new significance."
Taken from: What's on the Other Side: by Brent L. Top

[Fahmida]

"And I am dumb to tell a weather's wind"
From "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" by Dylan Thomas

[Carmilla]

'And there was much to encourage trust in her husband's authority.'

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

"No sooner had there eyes fallen on the ladies than they were themselves espied of them; whereupon quoth Pampinea, smiling, "See, fortune favorable to our beginnings and hath thrown in our way young men of worth and discretion, who will gladly be to us both guides and servitors, an we disdain not accept of them in that capacity".
Giovanni Boccaccio The Decameron

[Diggory Venn]

"His reward and his time had now come."

Barchester Towers (1857) by Anthony Trollope

[Francis92]

I lost count of the pages i was just reading

[M3ll155x]

"It was as though the sister whom I had never laid eyes on, who before I was born had vanished into the stronghold of an ogre or a djinn, was now to return through a dispensation of one day only, to the world which she had quitted, and I a child of three, waked early for the occasion, dressed and curled as if for Christmas, for an occasion more serious than Christmas even, since now and at last this ogre or djinn had agreed for the sake of the wife and the children to come to church, to permit them at least to approach the vicinity of salvation, to at least give Ellen one chance to struggle with him for those children’s souls on a battleground where she could be supported not only by Heaven but by her own family and people of her own kind; yes, even for the moment submitting himself to redemption, or lacking that, at least chivalrous for the instant even though still unregenerate."

God......

Absalom, Absalom! (1936) by William Faulkner

[isabellet91]

"She was annoyed with me for going down to the landing by myself, but she didn't make a big deal about it, it being my birthday and all."

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

[Diggory Venn]

"Your slave, John Graham Bretton."

Villette (1853) by Charlotte Bronte.

[Whifflingpin]

"And seldom was a snood amid such wild luxuriant ringlets hid, whose glossy black to shame might bring the plumage of a raven's wing; and seldom o'er a breast so fair, mantled a plaid with modest care, and never brooch the folds combined above a heart more good and kind."

The Lady of the Lake - Scott

[North Star]

What prompted his comment "without force" is clearly his preference for the sustained heroic level of the Iliad over what he terms the Odyssey's presentation of "the fabulous and incredible" as well as the realistic description of life in the farms and palace of Odysseus' domain, which, he says, "forms a kind of of comedy of manners."

From Bernard Knox's Introduction to The Odyssey (Robert Fagles' translation).

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

"They told the Spaniards that the colossal monuments that stood deserted about the the landscape were erected by a race of white gods which had lived there before the Incas themselves became rulers"

Thor Heyerdahl Kon-Tiki

[Dunechka]

"Yes," she thought, "he is happy and content, but what of me?..."
-Anna Karenina

[Dunechka]

haha, great topic. :lol:

Here goes:

"Oh! oh! continua Corneille, comme ces gens sont en colère! Est-ce contre vous? est-ce contre moi?"

("Oh! oh! Cornelis went on, how angr are those people! Is it because of you? Is it because of me?")

La Tulipe Noire/The Black Tulip, Alexandre Dumas

I LOVE THAT BOOK. *sigh*

[Sido]

She slid it over her head, then carried all her treasures back to Port where she arranged them on the central table.
- The Slow Regard of Silent Things - Patrick Rothfuss -

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

"The commissary knocked thrice, every blow seeming to Dantes as if struck on his heart"
Dumas; The Count on Monte Cristo

[EmptySeraph]

''Adesea sunt tentat să-mi plăsmuiesc o altă genealogie, să-mi schimb strămoșii, să mi-i aleg dintre aceia care, la vremea lor, au știut să semene doliul printre popoare, la antipodul străbunilor mei, alor noștri, umiliți și loviți, copleșiți de mizerii, amestecați cu țărână și gemând sub blestemul veacurilor.''

''I'm often tempted to forge myself another genealogy, to change my ancestors, to choose them from those who, at their time, knew to sow the mourning throughout peoples, at the antipode of my forefathers, of ours, humiliated and hit, overwhelmed by miseries, mixed with dust, and moaning under the curse of the ages.''

E.M. Cioran, Istorie și Utopie / History and Utopia

[Danik 2016]

"Medieval Jewish sholars put the date of the Creation at 3760 BC."- Good Omens, Terry Pratched & Neil Gaiman

[Sido]

Greg's family owned two neurotic cats that were always screeching when they got under his feet or sending his heart into overdrive when they rocketed out from under his bed.
- The Sell House - Linda Newbery -

[tailor STATELY]

"about your aunt or cousin who died" -


All the Brilliant Ideas I've Ever Had
poems
Justin Evans

[Zoey141]

Haha, interesting. Just realized that the 23rd page just has

PART THREE


SEPTEMBER,
TWO MONTHS LATER


It's a popular book though. Does anyone want to take a random guess?

[Whifflingpin]

Without checking, is it Tristram Shandy?


For me - "All traces of the paintings of saints on the lower panels have vanished."

Some old Devon Churches - John Stabb
By coincidence, the church in question was the one in which I was baptised, about threescore & twelve years ago. I don't remember seeing the lower panels.

[Jim Joyce]

"English girls don't know about fireflies, which is about all Slothrop knows for sure about English girls."

Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon.