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

'Puis, le soir, au retour du bureau, il courait au bord de la Seine avec sa cousine Thérèse.'

'Then, in the evening, when he had returned from the office, he ran along the banks of the Seine with his cousin Thérèse.'

Thérèse Raquin - Zola

"Moreover the triangle ABC is half of the parallelogram EBCA; for the diameter AB bisects it."

37th Proposition of Euclid's Elements

Last night it was pullulating with women.

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

"Nothing as far as I'm concerned."

"I was suddenly her focus of the general meaninglessness-not for myself, not for any quality of my large, shaggy body or my sly, unatural mind."

Grendel by John Gardner

"An innocent maiden had thus grown up in the belief that the relations between the genial sailor and her mother were the ordinary ones that they had always appeared to be."

The myor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy

"It was very kind of you to help me," she said at the door.

Shirley Jackson, "The Daemon Lover"

The two officers exchanged glances, and the next question brought a bemused look to the face of the bereaved man when he was asked to account for his own movements that day.

The Fateful Circle by Emil Miller.

While blankets were gathered and tombstones bid farewell to, several women would notice the many inconsistencies in the men's responses and ask either new questions or re-formulate the old ones, only more persistently this time.

The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak

"Bakers have homes, while shepherds sleep out in the open."

-The Alchemist

"And whatever had been true a generation ago when Catherine of Aragon's daughter had brought back the church to Rome, whatever might be true now of the outlying parts of the realm in this twenty-ninth year of the reign of Elizabeth, the heart and strength of England, the southern and eastern counties, the flourishing seaport towns, and the great city of London itself were Protestant."

- 'The Defeat of the Spanish Armada' by Garrett Mattingly

A bit of a long sentence!

"Now find out my name," she said teasingly; and withdrew.

Far from the Madding Crowd- Thomas Hardy

Still, if things had gone thus far and no farther, force of habit would doubtless have gained the day, as usual.

The Plague by Albert Camus

"Coming out he leaned over the bowl and dipped the cup full and they all touched cup edges"

For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

I told you he wouldn't like it!

Dementors here, in Little Whinging.

Catherine's library was select, and its state of dilapidation proved it to have been well used, though not altogether for a legitimate purpose; scarcely one chapter had escaped a pen-and-ink commentary - at least, the appearance of one - covering every morsel of blank that the printer had left.

In translation:
"I and my wife were keeping vigil almost for the entire night by the side of the little girl."
(In Cold Blood by Truman Capote)

"He felt that his son was long past the point of being influenced by a father's opinions."

Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton

"His pale eyes had a faraway look, to somewhere beyond life itself."


Bruges-la-Morte - Georges Rodenbach

called Keith Douglas. He was posh. His middle name was Castellaine

the pregnant widow martin amis

But there is a factor that can be eliminated almost totally, and this is sodium-chloride (table salt) which is the main cause of high blood pressure.
(Paul C. Bragg and Patricia Bragg: The Miracle of Fasting)

Lastly he took the bottle of Echols' potion from his coatpicket and pulled the cork and dipped a twig into the bottle and stuck the twig into the ground a foot from the trap and then put the cork back in the bottle and the bottle in his pocket.

"A boy about a year older stood crying and shaking in a corner; he had evidently just had a whipping"


That's Crime and Punishment

"In 1874, when he was 36, he went off to start a branch office in the newly booming cotton port of Norfolk, Virginia."

The Diary of Jack the Ripper

Does "fourth sentence" include the sentence that the page starts midway through? I'm assuming no. Anyway:

"The present moment holds the key to liberation." The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle. As I mentioned in the philosophy section, it is the most powerful book I've ever read.

"I was getting all this on camera and, unwilling to let her upstage us, I quickly sapped her so that she fell onto the table in a heap".

Stonebolt - I read The Power of Now last year upon recommendation by my psychologist. It is quite good but to be honest I haven't kept it's ideas at the forefront of my consciousness. I probably do live life more to in the moment now in hindsight and thank this book for being a factor in this really. What are your thoughts?

I don't know, people definitely do have different reactions to it. I think people accept it in different degrees based on their life situation.

The flags are usually split to yellow and red parts diagonally, and the 2 flags move independently like the 2 hand of a clock.

"His father was a marshall now: higher than a magistrate." (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce)

"The things pretended and the phrases new." (Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer)

"The wall is not a two-dimensional surface but the high-dimensional phenomenal state-space of human Technicolor phenomenology. The Ego Tunnel: The science of the mind and the myth of the self. - Thomas Metzinger

His feet are bare, his ankles lovely, as are his wrists.

Our Saviour Himself long ago preached liberty and equality.

War and Peace.

"Not only did they differ strikingly from one another in facial type and body build, but they spoke quite unrelated languages and evolved completely different ways of life"
The RA Expeditions - Thor Heyerdahl

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We may profit by their experience without paying the price which it cost them.-The Federalist papers by Hamilton, Madison and Jay

it was thus that i was to be taught to associate evil with their prosecution, happiness with their disregard.

frankenstein, mary shelley

"And she opened the door of Fräulein Bürnster's room."

Here the light clicks across the white and gray

Corruption Poems by Camille Norton

There were two stools and two lamps at the workbench for the rare times when the son felt like joining his father, cleaning keys, but generally after breakfast the boy spent the rest of the day sitting behind Drummond in an old Naugahyde recliner, laughing to himself and saying prayers, or wandering out to the sidewalk to smoke a cigarette.