The street swarmed with boys and girls who played in the middle of the street and when a droshky came by waited until the last possible moment to step aside.
The street swarmed with boys and girls who played in the middle of the street and when a droshky came by waited until the last possible moment to step aside.
"With the rhythms and symbols of poetry one can get into a reader - open him up and while he is open introduce things on a [sic] intellectual level which he could not or would not receive unless he were opened up," Steinbeck revealed to Columbia University undergraduate Herbert Sturz in 1953.
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (Introduction by Robert Demott - where this sentence came from ;))
"First he takes about a double handful of shavings out of his grego pocket, and places them carefully before the idol; then laying a bit of ship biscuit on top and applying the flame from the lamp, he kindled the shavings into a sacrificial blaze."
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
"He felt that he had chosen the one who was in all respects the superior; and a man naturally likes to look forward to having the best."
Middlemarch - George Eliot
"Didn't the pamphlets claim there was elbow room?"
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey.
"D'ailleurs, pour la brosse à dents, la sonnette et le bronze de Barbedienne, monsieur est au courant et il vous répondra aussi bien que moi."
My translation attempt: "Besides, regarding the toothbrush, the bell and the Barbedienne bronze, Monsieur is fully informed and can respond to you as well as myself."
Huis Clos/No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
The book closest to my hand is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Quote:
Chance of cardiac arrest; be better, he reflected, if I lived in town where those buildings have a doctor standing by with those electro-spark machines.
Oooo, I have two books beside my hand right now.
"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul." -- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
The Gospel of Thomas is thought by some to be the lost source document known by scholars as Q, or the Sayings of Jesus, which lies behind Matthew, Mark, Luke, the Synoptic Gospels; it is probably related to that source. -- A Brief History of Secret Societies by David V. Barret
I have a somewhat ecclectic taste in books.
'In fact,' she mused, 'if he'd give himself a closer shave ... by the way, is Hemingway old?'
"My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom."
James Joyce, Dubliners.
A little fishing was done in the port, and a quantity of strolling about by night, and looking seaward: particularly at those times when the tide was made, and was near flood.
ATOTC ~ Dickens
I have two books next to me. The first is from POINT COUNTER POINT by Huxley"
"In the laboratory, at his desk, he was as old as science itself."
THE LOGIC OF VIOLENCE IN CIVIL WAR, by Stathis Kalyvas:
"Unlike civil wars, riots tend to be a predominantly urban phenomenon, lacking significant retaliation, heavily influenced by institutional (often electoral) incentives, and facilitated by crowd anonymity; the ratio of perpetrators to victims tends to be inverse in riots ad civil war: in the former participation is public and the victims are an unlucky few, whereas in the latter a few participate directly in victimizing an unlucky public."
*whew*...
"Each was full of a venomous-green dust." -Herta Muller, 'The Land of Green Plums'.
She is on the front doorstep, talking to Joseph, whose caravan is parked with five others by the side of the road, two miles from here.
I was eager to finish Moll Flanders so I could put another one into this thread. I know, I'm strange... I like wacko things! :D
'Er war schon fast ganz umgedreht, als er sich, immer auf dieses Zischen horchend, sogar irrte und sich wieder ein Stück zurückdrehte.'
'He had already almost turned hmself, when he, still listening to this sizzling noise, made a mistake and turned himself back a little.'
Die Verwandlung, Franz Kafka.
I hung it up in net sacks and although it went green on the outside the middle was good.
My Lively Lady, Sir Alec Rose.
Story of his single handed circumnavigation of the world.
Doing the 4th sentence of the 43rd page since I've already quoted this book:
"Tradition takes what it 'transmits' is made so inaccessible, proximally and for the most part, that it rather becomes concealed."
-Being and Time, Martin Heidigger
"It has therefore empirical principles, although, at the same time, it is in so far general, that it applies to the exercise of the understanding, without regard to the difference of objects."
-Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
"And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land."
-The Bible
"Mathematicians and philosophers had begun to have serious doubts about whether even the most concrete theories, such as the study of whole numbers (number theory), were built upon solid foundations."
-Godel, Escher, Bach , Douglas Hoffstander
"The oven smokes in cheerless October / A BAD COLD HE HAD OF IT JUST THE WORST TIME / JUST THE WORST TIME OF THE YEAR FOR A REVOLUTION / Through the suburbs blooming cement goes / Dr. Zhivago in sorrow / for his wolves / IN THE WINTER SOMETIMES THEY CAME INTO THE VILLAGE AND TORE APART A PEASANT."
-Hamletmachine, Heiner Mueller
Benedictus vinum et unguentum desiderat.
It's a Beginner's Latin book.
"You will understand that you cannot be permitted to see her, no, not in any circumstances; accordingly I have required her to be positioned behind that sheet."
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie.
What! a man who was trying to slip a noose over every neck in the Republic that he might tighten it at his pleasure!
Romola by George Eliot
But the insult felt on both sides was so great that there was no question of reconciliation and the Price, utterly furious, used every possible means to turn the matter to his advantage, which in essence meant only one thing - to deprive his former steward of his last means of subsistence.
He had been working for days on a study of St. John Baptizing the Neophyte and was upset becasue he could not clarify his concept oof Jesues.
The Agony and the Ecstasy ~ Irving Stone
He wrote a book on natural philosophy in the style of his Ionian predecessors, acknowledging a particular debt to Anaximenes; it was the first such treatise, we are told, to contain diagrams.
From: A Brief History Of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny
'Ye can smell it.'
The Dragon Charmer -Jan Siegel
But a villainous affair it is, and will one day so blend and confound us all together, that no one shall be able to stand up and swear, "That his own great grand father was the man who did either this or that"
(Laurence Sterne, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman")
first post here, hi everybody!
The requirement is imprecise. I don't know whether to start the count with the text of the book, or to include the front matter. And I don't know whether to count a sentence that ends on page 23 but starts on page 22 as the first. So, I will give the resulting sentence using both page-count approaches, and counting a partial sentence as the first.
Nearest book, The Bible: "The Newberry Bible" Large Type Reference Edition.
1. Count front matter: "And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters"
2. Count text: "And Ahimelech said, 'I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but today.'"
Next nearest book: "Dandelion Wine", Ray Bradbury, Bantam Books, 1976 edition, 1985 printing
1. Count front matter: "They fell, thrashed, and rolled."
2. Count text: "Candy-store man samples his own stuff, I should think."
The boys seem very cheerful, and I want to go to them: I want to be with Graham, and watch his friends.
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
He wore blue silk stockings, blue knee pants with blue buckles, a blue ruffled waist and a jacket of bright blue braided with gold.
The Patchwork Girl of Oz ~ L Frank Baum
Oh I LOVE this book!!! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC
"...It's possible to get the sense you're being toyed with, that Mr. Calvino is fiddling with you and doesn't much care whether Rome is burning or not; that "reality" and "truth" are, for him, categories irrelevant to the hermetic world of art..."
--taken from MOVING TARGETS, by Margaret Atwood
Aldous knew how it upset her.
In an alcove, at the turning, standing on an oak coffin stool was a jar.
"The Children's Book"- A.S.Byatt
Yeah, I can do it again! :D I didn't do it earlier because this book was slow.
'A breeze flauntig ever so warmly down the Mall through the thin trees, past the bronze heroes, lifted some flag flying in the British breast of Mr Bowley and he raised his hat as the car approached and let the poor mothers of Pimlico press close to him, and stood very upright.'
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Don't know what to think yet :goof:
He was baptised on February 5 at St Joseph's Chapel of Ease, Roundtown, now the church of St Joseph, Terenure, by the Reverend John O'Mulloy, CC.
James Joyce by Richard Ellman.
Graham did like it very well, and almost always got it.
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
And yes, I have started a new book! I don't know why I find this topic so much fun. :blush5:
'Heureusement quelqu'un vint tirer [Gringoir] d'embarras et assumer la responsabilité.'
'Fortunately, someone came to get [Gringoir] out of his predicament and took up the responsibility.'
Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame/Le Notre Dame de Paris, 1830.
'He lit the cigarette and nodded, watching me through the smoke.'
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, R.V. Cassill
(The story is "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin)
But they became throat cutters
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
One morning Jem and I found a load of stovewood in the backyard.
To Kill A Mockingbird.
Nice-looking merchandise, the kind a rich promoter would buy in the yard and have somebody paste his bookplate in.
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler.
The Hell's Angels had made headlines before, and the Lynch report--based on a survey of old police files--contained little that was new or startling.
Hell's Angels, A Strange and Terrible Saga - Hunter S. Thompson