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| 2008-06-15 06:58 |
| [meme] Fifth sentence, page 123 |
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I’m not so much with the memes any more, for the most part, but in this case the result was so funny I went with it. I’ve been tagged by Matt Staggs to grab any book, go to page 123, find the fifth sentence, and blog it. Then tag five people.
So I grabbed the first book I could find that a) wasn’t written by me, and b) I had bought on purpose. (I get sent a lot of books in the mail.)
“I repeat: do you really believe this is crap?”
The Throne of Saturn, Alan Drury, Doubleday, 1970
Is that a question an author wants their readers asking themselves?
Tagging:
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Originally published at jlake.com. You can comment here or there.
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| 2008-06-15 15:53 (UTC) |
| I don't think this is what you wanted ... |
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"While SSI has technically nothing to do with CGI, it is an important tool for incorporating dynamic information, as well as output from CGI programs, into otherwise static documents, and you should definitely be aware of its abilities and limitations because in some cases it can provide a simpler and more efficient solution than a CGI script."
From "CGI Programming with Perl, 2nd edition" by Guelich, Gundavaram and Birznieks, pub. O'Reilly, July 2000.
Honest, that's the first thing that came to hand!
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| goulo |
| 2008-06-15 16:35 (UTC) |
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"nōminātim adv by name, expressly"
(The closest book on my desk was Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary...)
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| elfs |
| 2008-06-15 17:12 (UTC) |
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Oh, I avoided the nonfiction around me, but...
"A quick look at the create method shows that if the save to the database fails, then the controller renders and returns the new template, which correctly returns an http 200 response." — Ruby on Rails Up and Running, Bruce Tate & Curt Hibbs, pub O'Reilly, August 2006.
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| willyumtx |
| 2008-06-15 16:55 (UTC) |
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Golly, I usually avoid such things, but looked this time.
"They hadn't, and they hadn't."
--- ARC of Nothing to Lose by Lee Child
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| elfs |
| 2008-06-15 17:06 (UTC) |
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The address on the gods' missive was Vale's - Evolution's Darling by Scott Westerfeld
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| seajay06 |
| 2008-06-15 18:31 (UTC) |
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"In hearing the answer, you are changed."
From "Walking on Alligators: A Book of Meditations for Writers" by Susan Shaughnessy
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| manmela |
| 2008-06-15 19:24 (UTC) |
| First book to hand... |
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"The Tower was, after all, where he wanted to go" - The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
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I do a variant in my Page 123 series. Since you reminder me you and your readers get a preview.
The variation is, I quote the third paragraph. This time around the quote is from Tanith Lee's A Heroine of the World
"I even saw myself in that room, for another curious vanity of the general's, a mirror of silvered glass, hung on the farther wall. There I was in it, a face of pale angles I had never been shown before, and I was taller certainly, I must have been growing. My hair, so long unwashed, worse for combing, almost black ... A memory stirred in me, and filmed away. My eyes were like two coins of mercury. They had been enlarged and shaped by seeing. Such pain as had remade my face astonished me, for I had not felt it, no, I never had."
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| rsdevin |
| 2008-06-16 00:50 (UTC) |
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One of Jay's Tags can tag me if they want. This seems fun in a nonsensical way.
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| rsdevin |
| 2008-06-16 19:30 (UTC) |
| Oh no, that does not sound good... ;-) |
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Last book received and therefore on top of the mountainous pile:
"...glass under his fingers, rough and brittle yet strong enough to hold his weight." The Crooked Letter by Sean Williams
Now, I need to properly blog this a tag some people.
On another note, I have attempted to start a twitter meme based off of this and have asked everyone to tweet the 7th line (letters in the name twitter) from the 140th page of ANY book (140 is in honor or dishonor of Twitters character limit), here is my result:
"limbs, tail flailing and jaws gnashing for purchase" - 'Whitechapel Gods' by S.M. Peters. I thought this was a great line to come across.
Just look up 'rsdevin' on twitter.
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