Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of this blog.
*Post a link along with your post back to this blog.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.
HAPPY FRIDAY!
This is from Orson Scott Card's newest collection of short stories, Keeper of Dreams. This quote is from the story Atlantis.
Glogmeriss gasped and clung to his father's hand. "A giant indeed," said his father. "Look at those legs, that powerful tail."
I had to cheat this week :)) since the closest book to me was Ender in Exile and I did that one a couple weeks ago. I figured this was as good!
5 comments:
I felt a kind of vertigo, as if I were merely plunging from one world to another, and in each I arrived shortly after the end of the world had taken place.
If on a winter's night a traveler / Italo Calvino
"Iago, the liar, comes back to the word "lie" when telling his untruth so that the word "lie" echoes with double meaning through their conversation, lacerating Othello with thoughts of two illicit lovers and, at the same time, accusing Iago for his abuse of the truth."
- Cliffnotes on Shakespeare's Othello
I swear, I read the play. I'm just using the Cliffnotes for quick revision.
...Really!
Michael.
I posted mine on my blog. Go by and check it out.
"I walked to the northeast coast over against Blefuscu; where, lying down behind a hillock, I took out my small pocket perspective-glass, and viewed the enemy's fleet at anchor, consisting of about fifty men of war, and a great number of transports: I then came back to my house, and gave order (for which I had a warrant) for a great quantity of the strongest cable and bars of iron."
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
I have been reading these the last few times, but haven't had a chance to participate until now - my post this week is here: http://booksandneedlepoint.blogspot.com/2009/01/friday-56-1-16-09.html
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