2006-02-10 
 

odd words

Found this fun meme over on yaniblog.

Here are the rules:

Grab the nearest book
Open the book to page 123
Find the fifth sentence
Post the text of the next 3 sentences (#5,6,7) on your blog, along with these instructions.
Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! Just grab what is closest. No cheating.

The closest book to my computer is one I've admittedly never read called The Outlaws on Parnassus. G rescued it from a sidewalk in Cole Valley a while back, and it eventually migrated to my computer/writing shelf. My sentences are:

...This day, because it was the first day of her French frock, she regarded as her début in the dizzy life of capitals. She existed in a rapture of bliss, an ecstasy which could feel no fatigue, either of body or spirit.
This writer could probably have given as exact a description of any dress worn by the lady.

Wonderful.

The book has a blurb on the cover that reads, "Delights and devices of the novel from Homer to Orwell." Which explains the odd coupling of sentences.

Side note: When G originally picked up the book he could see Parnassus Hill. Synchronicity.

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* posted by me at 2:35 AM

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