[MrBF1V3]

I found this on another forum (where I was lurking) and thought it could yield interesting results here. It was called the book game, and here are the rules:

1. Grab the nearest book.

2. Open the book to page 123.

3. Find the fifth sentence.

4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences in quick reply to this thread.

5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.

... I thought I might add--Make sure to properly cite the work you are quoting.

[MrBF1V3]

I should go first, huh?

"That's the blood of a human being. You just remember that."

The blue veins bulged in the man's forehead. His eyes rolled, and he seemed ready to collapse.

From:
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
by Yasunari Kawabata
translated from the Japanese

B5

(It was actually kind of a toss up, this book was as close as The Colombia Guide to Standard American English:rolleyes: )

[Avi Morgan]

And no matter how she had willed herself to do so, it had slipped off the edge of her mind.

***

Helping out at the Hewlitts' was far easier than taking care of two small children for an entire day, Chrissa discovered. It was surprising how much attention Julie required even when she was sitting still. When she was at the table coloring, for instance, she constantly chirped, "See how good I can do this, Chrissa?"


"Ice"
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

[lirael17]

"i dont know if you can tell in this light, but im turning green."
"i have no bacon or bananas, unfortunatly," nigal said (pronouncing the latter ba-NAW-nas), "but i do have peanut butter and three kinds of jelly. also apple butter"
"apple butter'd be good," jake said.

the dark tower by stephen king

[JBI]

"Nothing else happend"

This Immortal-Roger Zelazny

:p Pretty lame one if I say so myself. Next time I'm cheatting and reaching for an encyclopedia.

[ArthurFrayn]

'Should take a hit all right, but now I can't get the damn gun to work'
'Zalkalwe', the drone sighed.'It would be hardly surprising if it isn't working. The thing belongs in a museum. '

Use of Weapons-Iain M. Banks

[ravenlynne]

He remembered noww how tired she had seemed in the morning and how she had lain with her eyes turned upwards as though in pain. "I will go myself and wake someone," he said; "I am tired of clapping with only echoes to answer me."

From "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu...out of the Anthology of Japanese Literature. It's been sitting here on my desk for a while.

[Gildor]

LoL, love the idea, well i've only got some Roman history close at hand :(

To Antonius no grounds for satisfaction. Alert and resilient among the visible risks of march and battle, he had no talent for slow intrigue, no taste for postponed revenge. Though able beyond expectation as a politicaian, he was now bewildered ...

From, 'The Roman Revolution' by Ronald Syme

[Raule]

Don't you agree? To my surprise today, to the joy of the children and grandchildren of my son, Alejandro, tomorrow, in a universe that offers a very small quota of heroes, the answer was no. I didn't agree. I wasn't prepared to compromise with the enemy.

The Last Song of Manuel Sendero, Ariel Dorfman

Which appears to be the only book on our office bookshelf that isn't a computer manual, dictionary or management book.

[Archren]

"A flat-topped desk stood in the corner near the main house, with a shelf of books over it. A big switchboard covered the opposite wall, flanked by two huge D.C. generators. There were cupboards and a long worktable littered with small apparatus. But a good half of the room was empty save for the machine that squatted in the middle of the concrete floor."

The book is "Adventures in Time and Space," an anthology. The story is "The Sands of Time" by P. Schuyler Miller.

(It was either that or "Introduction to Statistical Pattern Recognition", but I don't think the text editor here has enough symbols for that one. ;) )