[Mememe] Sentences

[mirrorshard]

(via thipe)

* Grab the book closest to you.
* Go to page 56.
* Find the 5th sentence.
* Write that sentence to this post.
* Copy these instructions as a new post to your LJ.
* Don't go looking for your favourite book, or the coolest one you have -- just grab the closest one.

'No, madame,' replied Henry; 'we are going into the city with Messieurs d'Alençon and Condé. I almost expected to find them here.'

(Also, points for identifying each others' books.)

Comments

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

After we'd finished talking about the book she looked at me with the most extraordinary expression of envy that I've ever seen in a girl so young.

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

Also: I am near certain that yours is Dumas. No idea which one though. :-)

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas.

Be observant, be perceptive, and be aware of all that is happening around you as it takes place.

[makyo.livejournal.com]

But the connection between the fundamental group and covering spaces runs much deeper than this, and in many ways they can be regarded as two viewpoints toward the the same thing.

Allen Hatcher, Algebraic Topology (http://www.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/AT/ATpage.html), Cambridge University Press (2002). I'm in the office at the moment, so there are only mathematics books to hand.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Thoreau answered, "I did not know we had quarrelled."

[kateqp.livejournal.com]

I'm in the library, so have over a thousand books at about the same distance. Opted for the one in my handbag.

'My heart began to pound in my chest, to pound so hard that it hurt.'

[sleetersoulfire.livejournal.com]

'Come then,' I said, 'let us make an imaginary sketch of the origin of the state.'