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Post by Pink Betty on Jan 16, 2010 20:56:17 GMT
not really a proper game,
1) open the nearest book at page x (not your favourite book, the first book you can lay your hands on)
2) find the x th sentence...etc.)
3) post it.
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game 1:
page 42
fourth sentence
wot you got?
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Post by Pink Betty on Jan 16, 2010 21:04:02 GMT
fumbling in the dark i plucked "a far cry from kensington' off the shelf (ms spark)
page 42, fourth sentence:
For the letter yielded all the symptoms of a disguised hand, that is, small inconsistencies, like the contradictions of a guilty person under interrogation.
it made me laugh - written in 1988 - without any experience of proboards and the interweb!
Bravo ms Spark.
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Post by sunday bets on Jan 17, 2010 10:48:04 GMT
A Question, Bets: Are we to take pg42, 4th sentence for our book too? [/sub][/quote] yes; it's uncanny! |
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Post by topsy on Jan 17, 2010 13:30:53 GMT
;D
Mine is:
'Anybody seen anything of Adam Kindred?' how they would laugh about this adventure once it was over!
That's from 'Ordinary Thunderstorms' by super William Boyd. Not too impressive; I'll try again anon.
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Post by Pink Betty on Jan 18, 2010 17:13:36 GMT
;D Mine is: 'Anybody seen anything of Adam Kindred?' how they would laugh about this adventure once it was over!That's from 'Ordinary Thunderstorms' by super William Boyd. Not too impressive; I'll try again anon. i think that a most excellent contribution... .....and very possibly a truism too/to boot. |
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Post by topsy on Jan 18, 2010 17:22:43 GMT
:Dpossibly!
Pick another page Bets?
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Post by Pink Betty on Jan 18, 2010 17:44:24 GMT
go on then....
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Post by topsy on Jan 20, 2010 14:02:26 GMT
OK: Grabs book, lets it fall open, shuts eyes and puts finger on:
Page 31 sentence 4
"There were cattle under the trees that rose at their approach and stood looking at them and then moved off."
("All The Pretty Horses" ~ Cormac McCarthy)
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Post by Pink Betty on Jan 20, 2010 17:06:03 GMT
page 31 - sentence 4
'Such a nonsense head.
Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.
i note from where i left my place marked in 1988, that i never got passed page 7 - so it was nice to dip into page 31.
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Post by topsy on Jan 21, 2010 11:08:05 GMT
Daft boogers....I've never even set eyes on the book, but did get all the way through "The Moor's Last Sigh" (she boasted)
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Post by Ned Long on Jul 12, 2010 16:08:25 GMT
p31 sentence 4
"Pigeons cooed on the sills and flapped across the chamber, sending small feathers, and even occasionally hot squirts of excrement down onto the senators below"
"Imperium" by Robert Harris.
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Post by Pink Betty on Jul 13, 2010 12:07:02 GMT
p 31 sentence 4
"Here it was."
Betweenthe Acts - Virginia Woolf
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Post by aqua on Jul 13, 2010 22:31:22 GMT
p 31 sentence 4
'For obscure reasons Puritans resented the law and were often fined for flouting it.'
Shakespeare - Bill Bryson
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Post by Board of Guests Now on Aug 23, 2010 9:09:03 GMT
Pg 31 Sentence 4 "Add some salt, then put a lid on and simmer gently for about 35 minutes or until the lentils are soft." -- Delia Smith's Complete Cookery CoursePut a lid on it.  |
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Post by Pink Betty on Aug 23, 2010 9:20:38 GMT
p 31 sentence 4
awake to the inner light, learned, long-suffering, endowed with devotion,
a noble man - follow this good and great man even as the moon follows the path of the stars.
The Dharmmapada
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