Grab the closest book to you, turn to page 47, and post the fourth sentence. Don’t mention the title.
— adam harris (@AdamHSays) April 2, 2020
Mine is aggressively on-brand:
“Vogonity,” Ford hissed at him. https://t.co/sxJSUYPZqF
— ꧁Tynan꧂ (@TynanPants) April 2, 2020
What’s yours? Consider this a thread for all your respiteful needs, which do not include discussing a certain bullshit pneumonia dust* that shall not be named.
*stolen, unable to find source
NYCMT
“3. If 2x +3y = 1, then y=?”
(an intermediate algebra II book I have out for lesson planning)
oclday
They were empty.
Major Major Major Major
@oclday: They can’t all be winners.
schrodingers_cat
@NYCMT: (1-2x)/3
trollhattan
“Well, she does.”
What can I say, it’s a string of dialogue.
schrodingers_cat
Members of the delegation were not to cook in their rooms or damage the furniture.
Dan Myers
the more endomorphic members of the decidedly meshbacked
Olivia
The warlock’s heart felt nothing at all.
MattF
This varies with the device I’m using to read. From the nearest actual dead-tree book:
“It looks huge, stretching halfway across the horizon and scraping at the harsh sunlight overhead with the tips of its spires.”
Crashman06
Surrounded by board books. None of them have 47 pages!
Nunc Pro Tunc
The reefs were made of strange, long-extinct corals that resembled horns of plenty reaching toward the sun.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
The man who’s nearly had his head pulled off stands up, rubs his neck; says, thanks, Master Cromwell, and hobbles forward to hold the bridle.
WaterGirl
“Once they finished, they’d probably take their shovels up the hill to bury my friend.”
Major Major Major Major
Had I been standing when I saw that tweet, it would’ve been
chopper
“Maybe, maybe not. Works either way.”
narya
Wild yeast starters carry some leavening responsibility, but as you will see reflected in most of the breads in this book, they primarily serve to enhance flavor, though they do provide a leavening boost.
(I will note that the TRUE closest book is actually holding my laptop, and, i love you all, but disentangling all the wires to open the book was not gonna happen.)
Tony Jay
“1989/1988/1987 Sylvanian Families”
From “How to avoid a Wombat’s BUM… And other fascinating facts!”
What can I say? He’s 7 and read a a lot.
Calouste
“Hallo, Throat.”
A Ghost to Most
“1.3 Go past massive Frisco Mill at entrance to Bagley Tunnel. [3.3]”
painedumonde
A burst of coarse laughter, a shrug of the shoulders, accompanied by some platitude on the folly of women, had been the only welcome her husband had vouchsafed to those confidences about her troubles, which the need of unburdening herself had induced her to make during the first years of their marriage.
joel hanes
(referring to events of the year 1525)
divF
“Furthermore, the summation in (4.28) may include the same energy value more than once.”
(I’m actually not using this book at the moment, but it is at the top of a pile on my desk.)
Origuy
The gag just didn’t work in drag, and Carol would remain a fixture whenever we wanted a real female.
WaterGirl
Editorial comment: Most of our books seem pretty boring!
WereBear
Linnaeus
“In chemical theory, Paracelsus introduced the doctrine of the tria prima, or the three principles.”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Origuy: hmm….. one of the Python memoires?
Calouste
@Origuy: That’s about Monty Python I’d guess, with the Carol mentioned being Carol Cleveland.
SiubhanDuinne
“You’ll find a heady array of sandy shores from steamy South Beach to upscale Palm Beach, island allure on Sanibel and Captiva, and panhandle rowdiness in Pensacola. “
Origuy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Eric Idle’s. Always Look On the Bright Side of Life
joel hanes
@Nunc Pro Tunc:
I have a box full of fossils of those corals, retrieved from an eroding bank exposing Iowa’s late-Devonian Hackberry formation. See Fenton and Fenton _Fossils
Major Major Major Major
@narya: I wish I could find any kind of baking yeast at all right now :(
joel hanes
@WaterGirl:
It said “closest book”, not “book near you and most likely to be entertaining”
Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ
“Shadow could have finished him off then.”
Mine is probably too easy to guess. Just finished reading it. I’m supposed to be working but a migraine is beginning to hatch in my brain.
joel hanes
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Mantel ?
Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)
“Immature Snow Goose, gray-phase “Blue Goose””
mrmoshpotato
@Crashman06: LOL No “Baby’s First 47-page Broad Book With At Least 4 Sentences Per Page”?
FlyingToaster
“And even if there were Chinese traders who attacked the rupiah,” said Mrs. Tippel, “they weren’t here in Indonesia.”
waspuppet
Anyway, the main problem for White after the move [Knight]b5 is his lag in development — which allows the central Pawn Wedge to be destroyed definitively!
(I gotta get out more.)
PAM Dirac
“lactobacilli and streptococci that produce yogurt”
FlyingToaster
@Major Major Major Major: I found RapidRise (bread machine) jars at MarketBasket on Monday. But nobody else (Stop-n-Shop, StarMarket, Shaws, Hannaford, Whole Foods, Target) seemed to have any.
I’m almost out of ActiveDry, which most of my recipes use. Dammit.
Gin & Tonic
“Щоб блохи не водилися цілий рік, підкидають своє сміття на поріг чужого дому.”
Hungry Joe
Do you know, my precious Rodya, I think that, for various reasons (which, I hasten to add, have nothing whatsoever to do with Pyotr Petrovich, but are just a result of my own personal and possibly even old-womanist, female whims) — I think that I may possibly do better if after the marriage I continue to live on my own, as I do at present, and not together with them.
WaterGirl
@FlyingToaster: I use Rapid Rise in nearly every recipe and it seems not to be a problem in anything I’ve tried.
Keith P
“And it was after lunch in the Gethsemane of our kitchen one Sunday that the scalding of balls came to pass.”
laura
In school, the medium is the message: to succeed, students must take their knowledge and express it in a variety of clear and effective formats to fit the demands of the situation and of society.
Hey ManyMajors, hows that handsome fog-pelted creature coping with the CV19 and related stuff? It would sure be nice to see him and his bowtie de jour……
namekarB
Major Major Major Major
@Keith P: Oh dear.
zhena gogolia
“She died, believe it or not.”
FlyingToaster
@WaterGirl: The recipe I just made wanted RapidRise; it’s definitely a lighter loaf than last week’s brick.
Some of my old (as in I’ve had the recipes for decades) ones might not want anything as fluffy as the RapidRise.
Ten Bears
Next, step, forward with your right foot, placing it down with the toes pointing directly ahead, but keeping the weight on your left foot.
dexwood
Densely barred dark brown, with short, rounded dark tail.
oldster
Πεφυκέναι γὰρ δή φασιν τὸ μὲν ἀδικεῖν ἀγαθόν, τὸ δὲ ἀδικεῖσθαι κακόν, πλέονι δὲ κακῷ ὑπερβάλλειν τὸ ἀδικεῖσθαι ἢ ἀγαθῷ τὸ ἀδικεῖν, ὥστ’ ἐπειδὰν ἀλλήλους ἀδικῶσί τε καὶ ἀδικῶνται καὶ ἀμφοτέρων γεύωνται, τοῖς μὴ δυναμένοις τὸ μὲν ἐκφεύγειν τὸ δὲ αἱρεῖν δοκεῖ λυσιτελεῖν συνθέσθαι ἀλλήλοις μήτ’ ἀδικεῖν μήτ’ ἀδικεῖσθαι· καὶ ἐντεῦθεν δὴ ἄρξασθαι νόμους τίθεσθαι καὶ συνθήκας αὑτῶν, καὶ ὀνομάσαι τὸ ὑπὸ τοῦ νόμου ἐπίταγμα νόμιμόν τε καὶ δίκαιον·
One of Plato’s characters, putting forward a naturalistic anthropological explanation of the origins of the human system of justice:
“They say that by nature it is good to take advantage of others, and bad to be taken advantage of. But the badness of being used so far exceeds the goodness of using others, that when they had all had a taste of both, those who were unable to avoid being taken advantage of decided that it would be to everyone’s benefit to make a contract with each other, neither to take advantage of others nor to be taken advantage of; and from this origin they began to establish laws and agreements, and what was commanded by these laws they called by the name “justice”.”
Baud
Who reads books with 47 pages?
ALurkSupreme
“Eddies of fear, widening from these crises, intensified local and obscure conflicts.”
lgerard
‘At any rate i don’t suppose you could go back before the fall term”
Timely!
Amir Khalid
The following sections explain how to use measures to count in compound time and provide you with some counting practice.
John Revolta
“Hispanic, Koranic, mechanic”
indycat32
A variety of medium-green fabrics will add more interest to the quilt.
AnnaN
“That”, said Sophy with a gurgle of mirth, “is because she is excessively idle.”
mrmoshpotato
On the way home we’d stop for a double feature at the Shore Drive-In, falling asleep in the backseat, to be carried to our beds by my dad once back in Freehold.
James E Powell
“It was in this climate, in which those who ruled were encouraged vigorously by spiritual authorities to prevent the mixing of Jews and Christians, that Simon decreed that Leicester’s Jewish inhabitants should be banished.”
Major Major Major Major
@oldster: Does Greek usually have such long sentences?
@AnnaN:
What a phrase!
Aardvark Cheeselog
More detailed directions for the food-processor dough are in the French bread recipe on page 38.
Sab
He kept tabs on who visited her and let it be known among the community of the Warrens that he did so, to ward off tadking men, all, as it happened, save me.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@joel hanes: Yup, reading along with the audiobook
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
“It does not appear…that all the intoxicating liquors sold are used for the purpose of intoxication.”
JanieM
“A humidifier sent a jet of mist into the overheated room.”
Major Major Major Major
This thread is really making it clear why there’s no yeast anywhere.
NimmoENull
The noble assemblies and their elected marshals were left with broad administrative powers, especially at the district level (uezd) where they were virtually the only agents upon whom the tsarist regime could rely.
errg
Django has a function called render_to_string which will let us do that:
Mary G
Asmodeus cackles in disbelief.
Major Major Major Major
@errg: it sure does!
planetjanet
“10/8/10: I whipped three slave women.”
M^4, love Douglas Adams.
jeffreyw
I’m about five hundred yards south of it on a side road.
Amir Khalid
@mrmoshpotato:
This has to be from Bruce Springsteen’s memoir, Born To Run.
JanieM
@WaterGirl: Just goes to show, context is everything. ;-)
Msilaneous
crewmen went out to the deck and barges as needed and the retreated
Elizabelle
“… Not just pill counting, but the human [tragedies].”
oldster
@Major Major Major Major:
I actually gave you only the first half of that sentence. Seriously — 8 lines out of 16.
But that’s in formal prose — in dialogue, Ancient Greek can be as quick and snappy as any language can.
Calouste
@waspuppet: My System ?
A Ghost to Most
@Major Major Major Major: If t* read this thread verbatim at the presser, he would make more sense.
prostratedragon
“Building on the previous example, suppose we want to add a single smooth line, showing the overall trend for all boys.”
Building up layered plots in ggplot2.
CindyH
“Southern 49 — advise intentions,” the tower interrogated.
AnnaN
@Major Major Major Major
It’s why I ADORE Georgette Heyer.
Msilaneous
@Origuy: The Pythons?
DropDminus
“For a moment our gazes met, then all went dark and my eyes burned.”
Joe Falco
Does not survive extended periods of intense cold.
delk
A teraz… pozostaje tylko czekać na odpowiedniego typa!
p.a.
4th full sentence:
But Hektor saw him and in words of shame rebuked him: “Evil Paris, beautiful, woman-crazy, cajoling, better had you never been born, or killed unwedded.”
Betty
I reckon you can guess what that’s about.
Josie
A white-jacketed waiter in a red fez approached to take their order.
Barbara
We were reading the Times Atlas of World History and it’s the book closest to me at the moment.
WV Blondie
So Derrick Flinn took a stool, ordered a coffee, and engaged in some general conversation with Dobey that Flinn gradually steered around to the subject of those who involved themselves in the personal lives of other men, and most particularly their relationship with their womenfolk, which is when Dobey began to recollect a thirty-five-year-old woman named Petra Flinn.
jimmiraybob
WaterGirl
@Baud: You may be assuming too much. We all just read page 47, sentence 4. :-)
mapaghimagsik
“A show about tornadoes”
From “I am America and So Can You” which was propping up a light for a work hangout.
Msilaneous
@AnnaN: The Grand Sophy?
PAM Dirac
I was worried that extended to wine yeast and wanted to make sure I had some for the harvest in the fall. More Wine let me order everything I need and it should get here in about a week. I guess there are far fewer home winemakers than home bread makers.
narya
@Major Major Major Major: I have a ton; happy to send you some instant yeast if you want.
oldster
@PAM Dirac:
“I guess there are far fewer home winemakers than home bread makers.”
Yeah, that’s how it goes at the *beginning* of the pandemic. Wait until we’ve been locked down a few more months. Then it’ll be bathtub gin in every tub.
Jager
” Wasn’t nobody there at the depot but Ma, and Ma was mad.”
oldster
@p.a.:
Beautiful. Is that the Lattimore translation?
narya
@mrmoshpotato: Bruuuuuuuce!
sdhays
“No matter how long I stood in front of the canvas and stared at that white, blank space, not a single idea of what to paint came to me.”
BC in Illinois
Major Major Major Major
@narya: WaterGirl actually emailed to offer me some too. You folks are the best!
@oldster: And if this keeps up in prohibition states, imagine the strain on the electrical system from all those grow lights.
CaseyL
It locked behind them automatically, and he smiled to himself.
KSinMA
“‘The public has the right to demand that football be abolished or completely reformed forthwith,’ the paper editorialized.”
(From a book about college football in the early 20th century. This editorial was about the 1909 death of a Virginia running back from an injury in a game.)
AnnaN
@Msilaneous: Indeed,
Emma from FL
I have become, perhaps by force of necessity, a seeker of the second kind, a seeker of the dark way of the well, traveling upwards toward the light, but knowing that in the end some force larger than me must lift me out.
Heidi Mom
“But it must be acknowledged that there are men in England, the best blood of your nation, who remain loyal sons of Rome.”
narya
@Major Major Major Major: I am also willing to support folks through getting a sourdough starter going! Mine is 10 years old, and I abuse it terribly (i.e., sometimes go a month w/o feeding it), and it just chugs along. My formulae nearly all supplement with instant yeast, though I might try a starter-only formula for the hell of it.
PAM Dirac
@oldster:
I may want a specific yeast, but the grapes are going to ferment no matter what, so I’ll always have wine. Some wineries around here do their ferments with whatever wild yeast are around, so it might even be good wine.
Speaking of distillation, one of my neighbors is a research chemist and he is pysched to make grappa from my fall harvest. I told him I’d referment the grapes, but it was up to him to figure out the distillation.
Caphilldcne
Of all inhabitants, 62% were aged sixteen years or older (the population was older than today because of the high child mortality).
sdhays
@WaterGirl: Just for kicks, I looked at the second closest book, and the 4th sentence on the 47th page is one word: “Sorry.”.
cleek
Very different — and absolutely top class.
dnfree
He also hoped to impress the Germans who he said “love total, pitiless war.”
oldster
@Major Major Major Major:
You know, for keeping people off the streets, indoors, and tranquil, the evil weed is about a zillion times more effective and healthy than the demon rum.
I mean, sure, the poor Instacart people will be run ragged delivering burritos and Oreos. But that’s a small price to pay for avoiding the drunk and disorderlies, the fights and car-wrecks, and all of the other damage, public and private, that alcohol would cause.
CindyH
@sdhays: What’s that from?
GregMulka
They were most commonly employed in repetitive monocrop farming, the kind that is most destructive to the land.
soup time
The slightly pop blue eyes blinked.
Gravenstone
(c) Given that ozone has a dipole moment (µ = 0.52 D) what does this indicate about the shape of an ozone molecule?
Mom Says I*m Handsome
“But when I’m jumping, it’s as if my feelings are going upward to the sky.”
A book full of wisdom and insight, and yet I land on the very sentence that explains the title (“The Reason I Jump” by Naoki Higashida — a remarkable book written by a 13-year-old autistic Japanese teenager).
sdhays
@CindyH: Killing Commendatore, by Haruki Murakami.
Cheryl from Maryland
Though I don’t remember seeing you among our selections. (From a sci-fi dystopia where debt is passed down among generations).
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
Couriers for the network had begun to crisscross the country, collecting the agents’ information and taking it to the picturesque resort town of Pau, where Colonel Bernis had established his operation in a small hotel called the Pension Welcome.
Plain Dave
“You nobody, got that?”
Jess
“With her hair cut short, Miller’s youthful double wears a masculine jacket, while in the foreground she is revealed as the stunningly beautiful woman that she was.”
scav
canescens kan-ESS-kens with off-white or grey hairs, as in populus x canescens
oatler.
“I could digest a salad gathered in a churchyard as well as in a garden.”
coch
He knows from the sheen of the lobster and the way the mousseline glistens that Lynn has cooked it perfectly.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
“Then our fish said, ‘LOOK! LOOK!'”
Jon Marcus
“Everybody,” says he, “even a certified ignoramus, can tell when something is good”
sdhays
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: I think I know that one!
Emerald
“He’ll go to her before he goes to you,” said Charlotte’s mother.
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic:
You have fleas?
dmsilev
Uhhh…
(yes, I’m dodging work, why do you ask?)
Steve
“I don’t know what the hell they did with the chairs.”
zhena gogolia
@Hungry Joe:
Pulkheria Ivanovna’s letter!
Major Major Major Major
@oldster: I’m not sure this is a great time to be encouraging smoking, alas. (I am well aware there are other delivery mechanisms, still…)
Jess
@dexwood: Sibley?
International Mikey
She didn’t want to hurt her parents, but she knew staying in Harmon wasn’t her future.
Uncle Cosmo
And don’t you just wish you knew who the master was. And what book this is from.
But I’m not going to tell you (har har har).
ETA: That was the first tome I seized upon. In terms of distance it was not in fact the closest book to my laptop, from which (at a Cartesian remove of ~9″) comes the following:
(And wouldn’t you like to know whose grin & temper it was…har har har)
scav
@Major Major Major Major: Especially as I just pulled two loaves from the oven and my nearest book has nothing to do with the effort.
Emerald
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Definitely a C. J. Sansom Matthew Shardlake mystery.
p.a.
@oldster: yes, but the book I’m citing is an analysis of the Iliad, not the work itself. The War That Killed Achilles, Caroline Alexander. She uses the Lattimore trans (with some use of more common name-translations) except using her own translation of Book 22. I have Pope’s translation as an ebook. I’ve set it aside for quite a while*; it’s beautiful poetry, but I have a real issue in that he uses Roman names?
*free download from project gutenberg
WaterGirl
@sdhays: That’s a good one!
O. Felix Culpa
Hier ist ein Bild meiner Freunde.
TheflipPsyd
“Even if she had, she could not have been convinced that learning everything about everything was not possible; her ambitions were as enormous and as multi-dimensional as the museum itself.”
P
Apparently my kids are reading about the antithesis of Trump. Or as they would say “opposite” Trump. It was the closest book and it was one of my favorites growing up.
sdhays
@WaterGirl: It’s especially funny because the surrounding sentences are dialog written for a specific nationality, so they’re much more interesting and distinctive. But the 4th sentence is just “Sorry”.
Jess
@NYCMT: -3?
5x5
Of course, when anyone, adult or child, found a mandrake — the root that looks so much like an aroused husband — it would be brought to Rachel and handed over with a wink and a prayer.
Elizabelle
Not respite, but jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli has died of coronavirus. Age 94. Played a 7 string guitar. (Amir will want one! But the stores are closed.)
I remember him playing with violinist Stephane Grappelli. He toured with Benny Goodman and was with Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show band until Carson moved the show to California.
Rest in peace, to him and Ellis Marsalis, another musical family patriarch.
NY Times obit.
jackmac
“Granny Weatherwax won’t like it!” Nanny played the trump card.
Bob Smith
Section 232(7) is repealed.
romeo24
Willingly would I now have gone and asked Mrs Reed’s pardon; but I knew, partly from experience and partly from instinct, that was the way to make her repulse me with double scorn, thereby re-exciting every turbulent impulse of my nature.
Citizen Alan
“I’m so, so sorry.” Which is especially amusing because it’s from the novel I wrote!
Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)
No sentences. The closest is rit. 2nd time
2liberal
Then you will make the return journey to take up wherever you left off with our dear friends and allies the Affront.
The third sentence on that page is 163 words long.
Sure Lurkalot
This occurred to me as I listened to yet another speaker at the Heartland conference display what can only be described as an utter absence of empathy for the victims of climate change.
The first book in the shelf is a depressing one….oy.
Steeplejack (phone)
“The process of sustaining a story’s promise begins with understanding the meaning of drama.”
munira
autumn stars
from a haiku journal
sdhays
@Steeplejack (phone): What book is that?
fxdshdw
“If the crossover frequency is 100-300Hz (or lower than 450Hz using a first-order low-pass filter), the driver will be at least partially operating in its piston range, and will benefit from a properly optimized low-frequency enclosure.”
Sorry…
Miss Bianca
“But Shakespeare did not simply break the illusion and have the players turn to address the queen.”
Nunc Pro Tunc
@joel hanes: Maybe so, but my quote is specifically referring to the seas at the end of the Ordovician. But what’s a horn coral among friends, amirite?
Austin Bailey
She was already too tall to be mistaken for an Earth child, her limbs longer and thinner.
Dave
The party submitting the Claim shall deliver it directly to the other party to the contract promptly (but in no event later than 30 days) after the start of the event giving rise thereto; in the case of appeals regarding change proposals within 30 days of the decision under appeal.
Fair Economist
“As a result, their counselors and family members would be full of optimism as they resumed their former lives.”
I’m thinking with this crowd the nearest book is typically very near.
noncarborundum
Miss Bianca
@painedumonde: Oh, which book is that?
@Origuy: Oh, that’s got to be something about Monty Python! Referring to Carol Cleveland, am I right? ETA: I see others were there before me! Figures!
Scuffletuffle
They formed into a little group and walked down the tarmac road in the hot sun, seeking the shade of trees wherever they occurred.
Achrachno
Such was Grant’s resect for Hamer that when the latter died of illness in early December, Grant not only mourned the loss of a friend but believed the country had lost a future president.
Green Desert
They lived at Ben’s parents’ house in New Canaan during the period of the trial, and once the sentence was handed down and Ben went off to prison (early in 1968), Fanny moved back to her own parents’ apartment in Brooklyn.
mrmoshpotato
@Keith P: If that’s their kink…
Scuffletuffle
@romeo24: Jane Eyre.
Elizabelle
@Achrachno: You and I are reading the same book! Although I think you’re a tad ahead of me. (Just started it yesterday. Like it very much.)
Ryan
“By the end of the 1960s, Nixonland came to encompass the entire political culture of the United States.”
Eric K
sitting next to a book shelf so not sure what was technically the closest, I just grabbed one at random from the shelf that is at eye level:
He crept up behind Ventress, who sat numbly on the edge of the pier, watching the burning motor-boat move into the shallows.
Van Buren
The only guilty party is the spirit of war, and it is on this that my work of persecution, all too weak as it is, must be exercised.
sxjames
@WereBear: Quote from Tully and Parshell’s ‘Shattered Sword’?
frosty
Though often noted more for scenery than wildlife, timberline habitats are a good place to observe a few species, such as Clark’s Nutcrackers, White-crowned Sparrows, Yellow-bellied Marmots, and American Pikas.
ETA:
Just bought it, this is the first thing I’ve read!
Original Lee
He and his aishid and all the rest shared fruit juice – none of the Guild of whatever age would touch alcohol on duty, and they were definitely on duty.
HRA
He promised himself he would look for another vessel to sign on with next time they were ashore.
Miss Bianca
@AnnaN: Ah, must be The Grand Sophy! That one’s my favorite! Oh, wait – no, The Masqueraders is still my favorite, The Grand Sophy is second.
realbtl
Il veicolo non si muove.
P 47 in my RC 6×6 manual- Italian section (I think)
Jinchi
“Out in the snowy woods all day, it might have gathered a little dampness, and the inside of the barrel was sure to be dirty from powder smoke.”
Now guess the age of the person I’m sitting next to.
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: It is. :)
It was inches closer than Randy Palmer’s Herschell Gordon Lewis, Godfather of Gore.
sxjames
Well, this is the closest book, but the quote is pretty lackluster
‘All spoke his praise’
Jim Bales
The volcano was not created to scare superstitious minds and plunge them into fits of piety and devotion.
LuciaMia
The girls he knew were always performing something,or if they let go of their guard then there seemed nothing behind it.
Aziz, light!
Humans expanding southward through the Americas, encountering big animals that had never seen humans before, may have found these animals easy to kill and may have exterminated them.
m.glafmer
“When this code is entered on a DirecTiVo the modem speed is decreased to about 14.4 Kbps.”
It was the closest non kindle book. Don’t have directv anymore, but I still have tivo.
Robert Sneddon
男バスの高田
Miss Bianca
@Elizabelle: Oh NOOOOO
God, it’s a good thing I still don’t do my jazz show, I’d be having a very bleak time coming up with all these elder statesmen dying. God damn.
patrick II
“You believe me now that he is truly bad?”
dexwood
@Jess: Yes. Sorry, no prizes. but well done.
Seth
“Life goes on.”
Krope, the Formerly Dope
As far as Sophie could see in the growing darkness, it was built of huge black blocks, like coal, and, like coal, the blocks were all different shapes and sizes.
@AnnaN: Did you and I pick up different editions of the same book? (Never mind, Miss Bianca’s answer suggests it wasn’t but that was a turn of phrase I could see this writer using.
Wolvesvalley
The food soon vanished, the crumbs from the red handkerchiefs were shaken out for the birds, the men lighted their pipes and the boys wandered off with their catapults down the hedgerows.
romeo24
@Scuffletuffle: You got it!
MomSense
“Some barbarians miss the close-knit family structures of the tribe, but eventually find them replaced by the bonds formed among the members of their adventuring parties.”
LarryB
Luin’s sacred staff is the fulcrum upon which balances the world.
Gin & Tonic
@zhena gogolia: That was actually a book about folk mythology, describing one of the things done on Walpurgisnacht.
No, I don’t leave my trash on other people’s stoops.
romeo24
@Robert Sneddon: 高校球児ザワさん?
Anna
@Miss Bianca: I love the Masqueraders as well. And the Toll Gate. The Unknown Ajax is also a favorite. :)
mrmoshpotato
@oldster: Wait, so alcohol is more the cause of and less the solution to all of life’s problems?
Miss Bianca
@LarryB: Uh…whoa.
TEL
“When he became president on March 4, 1921, he brought his crooked friends with him to Washington.”
Huh, not much of a respite from what’s going on today.
Gin & Tonic
@Gin & Tonic: Anyway, in this room I have several thousand books within a couple of feet of my left hand, and can’t really pick a “closest” so I just grabbed a random one.
senyordave
@mrmoshpotato: Homer Simpson got it right, it is the perfect balance in that it is the cause and solution to all of life’s problems
waspuppet
@Calouste: Better/worse: The Wonderful Winawer, by Moskalenko.
Steeplejack (phone)
@sdhays:
A Story Is a Promise, by Bill Johnson.
Quaker in a Basement
“But as soon as his father-in-law was dead Mr Mooney began to go to the devil.”
smintheus
Geoduck
“The whole spectacle was to cost uncounted millions of dollars, and for this purpose a huge valley in Spain was rigged up with incredible engineering devices.”
markregan
23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
mrmoshpotato
@Steve: STOP THE CHAIRS!
wkwv
There were many apes with faces similar to his own, and further over in the book he found, under “M”, some little monkeys such as he saw daily flitting through the trees of his primeval forest.
trnc
“Like the 2000, it was a twin channel design, but with channel A having more extensive facilities, including gain, treble, middle, mid-frequency select and bass.”
That was the second to closest book. The closest had a full picture of John Paul Jones.
WereBear
@sxjames: Yes!
Rick Taylor
“Furthermore, the vector valued function f(x) fulfills the condition (C).”
Scuffletuffle
@romeo24: Adore that book!
Ceci n est pas mon nym
From the coffee table (where I have 3 books in current rotation):
“Ain’t enough water in the River Jordan,” Emmaline snapped.
Taken4Granite
‘Not in the least’, said he.
narya
@Austin Bailey: Scalzi? Or Corey?
Achrachno
@Elizabelle: I’m about 1/3 way through, but have been poking at it for months. Now that I’m temporarily “unemployed”, I’m trying to finish it.
Jinchi
Jokes on you,SC. A middle-schooler just got you to do his homework for him.
Haroldo
Ray Pinker ran his tests.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA): You should give us the 4th measure then. The part of your choice, if it’s an orchestra score.
Krope, the Formerly Dope
@Jinchi: You should be thanking her for helping you out instead of laughing in that case.
Kay (not the front-pager)
“There can be a few grades of clear flour, depending on how much it has been sifted.”
OK so I’ve been baking a lot of bread, sue me. My diet was going so well before all this happened, too.
sheldon vogt
Third, the plantations must, with certain exceptions, take their imports only from Britain, this rule being intended to give English merchants the benefits of the middleman’s position in continental exports to the colonies.
Dr. Fungus
Cervantes defined proverbs as “short sentences drawn from long experience.”
SectionH
“Here comes a pelican, and as there’s no reason for a water fowl to run afoul of water in favor of a dry run like this ridge, it must be Enki, flying to share with us of the avant-garde his matchless creative wisdom.”
OldDave
Page 47 of the closest book (by touch) was code. “Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs”, by Nickel’s Worth.
romeo24
@Scuffletuffle: Me too!
randy khan
Treating the sentence that continues from the previous page as the first sentence:
“You’ve been awfully noble and if you weren’t so hungry you’d be glad to see me.”
If you start with the first complete sentence on the page:
“There are sandwiches in the glove compartment.”
There were two books almost equidistant, one on the left, one on the right, because I’ve been sorting old boxes of books.
stinger
By some supernatural influence I am still without children.
Keith P
@mrmoshpotato: I honestly expected page 47 to be a passage about “wanking school” (a circle jerk)….it’s all from Tom Baker’s autobiography.
Uncle Cosmo
@waspuppet: Switch to the Tarrasch. Even Fischer couldn’t figure out how to consistently crack the Winawer.
Haydnseek
The computer can even read a dictionary entry out loud.
H.E.Wolf
Thank you, Major4 and jackals! This thread is a wonderful respite.
“He had seen the venturesome Distelfinck jumping along in that direction; he reached there just in time, for at that instant the little goat came to the very edge of the precipice.”
[ETA: fixed my formatting.]
logjam
“A strong student, the young Curry seemed destined for a professional career as a lawyer or doctor, but his father, William, died in 1891, when Arthur was 16.”
Spinoza Is My Co-pilot
Late to the party here as usual, I see, but I’ll play:
“A crowd has formed outside his gate, expecting largesse.”
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic:
The word “trash” was the only one I couldn’t figure out. “sweepings,” I guess.
Steeplejack (phone)
@OldDave:
Boy, that takes my memory back! Lost all my heavy-duty computer books in the great fire of ’02.
Searcher
“A missile weapon may be used with this spell so long as it is provided with a bolt, arrow, or bullet, as may a thrown weapon.”
West of the Cascades
“In short, much information is encompassed within a salmon can label, making it one way of communicating the history of the salmon industry.”
NotMax
“Malie Day Spa LLC 810 Kokomo Rd……………………[redacted]-2222”
JAFD
“Ah, how is it. I’ve mixed it all up,”
How I feel, sometimes…
Anyway, my winter’s project, finished, pictures of, at
http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=527112&page=1
rekoob
“We decided to call.”
a lurker
T Jasper Parnell
There was something else he knew: the number of the tram he had to catch
Zelma
He would later say that the artillery was short of “scientific men, that department was entirely directed by sergeants and corporals….”
billcinsd
In The Human Condition, there is almost nothing wrong with modernity that Arendt does not lay at the feet of the overtaking of everything by the social; inauthenticity as well as conformism; action replaced by behavior and epic narrative replaced by statistics;58 the disappearance of a realm whose coordinates were risk, and distinction in favor of one of equality and mediocrity; political rule as a unique form of human achievement trammeled by the rise of “rule of nobody” in markets and bureaucracies; public life as a domain of arete and virtu replaced by society centered on work, “the one activity necessary to sustain life” that was formerly hidden away in the household as shameful;59 and citizenship allocated only to the free and oriented entirely to self-rule disappearing into slavish crowds carrying “an irresistible instinct toward despotism.”60
Elie
“The steamer took the small Union garrison out to the Federal fleet waiting off the bar.”
Richard
@NYCMT: I’m not right on the Oxford Bath road.
glory b
If people are confused about who’s running the show, they might start believing they know how to take care of themselves better than you do.
glyph2112
Or maybe he meant some of them seriously and some others he didn’t.
bcwbcw
“I’m Russian. We don’t get drunk on beer. It’s fine.”
Meanwhile, notice how when anyone wants a “random” number, they always put a seven in it.
boatboy_srq
It may well be that, even in diplomacy, the duke was frequently sincere, but in this case he patently was not.
steppy
“Nearly all joined in singing this hymn, which swelled high above the howling of the storm.”
bcwbcw
@256=2^8 , I edited out all the unnecessary English words:
al; ; ;58 , ; “ ” arete virtu , “”;59 “.”60
Them’s a lot of semicolons.
batguano
“The light glistening on the water.”
SeniorMoment
Other matters are superficial and don’t require a Tathāgata’s appearance.
Uncle Omar
“Rome was ‘a fabulous artificial landscape’ hewn into a swampy floodplain.”
Scuffletuffle
@H.E.Wolf: heidi
JeanneT
Water must be available to the seed in an amount sufficient to start the quickening
Scuffletuffle
@romeo24: love your nym, too. One of the most loving cats I have ever had was named Romeo. He had three sisters, Cordelia, Ophelia, and Rosamund, and a step-brother, Mercutio.
AliceBlue
“The floor of the harness room was as highly polished as the parquet of a drawing room.”
scav
@bcwbcw: Yeah, but doesn’t dropping all of them make your LISP command fail?
ETA. My bad, it’ll just crash in C, your parens are intact.
Hob
“Here also community singing provides fun for all.”
phein60
The ambassadors are installed in one of the city’s many palaces, where they spend two months waiting for their hosts to prepare their reception.
Robert Sneddon
@romeo24:
Yup, I was working on volume 5, reading forward in preparation to start scanlating the series again. It’s a bit of a cheat if you’ve got the original tankos yourself since page 47 is blank and there aren’t four sentences on page 48 but I did the best I could. Ganbatte Zawa-san!
Captain C
My head, no longer consumed by listening, started to pulse again as soon as I left her apartment.
Spanish Moss
“The drums rose to a frenzy.”
leeleeFL
@Tony Jay: I totally want to read this book! The title made my day better.
my book:
…enchanted carpet of green interspersed with great forest oaks and…
sounds a good place, doesn’t it?
minachica
“This is a fine-looking wench, and not a living soul knows that she is here.”
RepubAnon
“There has to be someone we can all agree upon.“
Nora Lenderbee
Carlos: Necesito escribir un reporte.
It’s a beginner’s Spanish workbook.
The Lodger
Note: If you have not worked with Himalayan salts before, it’s advisable to work with a smaller amount, as its detoxifying effect can cause drowsiness or dizziness.
Manxome Bromide
“This function can be used in direct mode, as long as the statement DEFining it has been executed.”
Capitalization in original.
Galahad Threepwood
“But on the other hand, the moment she thought of a future with Vronsky, the most brilliantly happy prospects rose before her, while with Levin the future seemed cloudy”.
My 5th attempt to read Anna Karenina. This time it’s working!
LarryB
Haha! No, it’s legit fantasy, from Thaumaturge, by Terry Mancour. I just got, ah, lucky?
MoCA Ace
Their activities are appropriate for them, but I couldn’t bear to participate now; When I became a man I put away childish things.
way2blue
“She returned to the emptiness of her house without me, to the mute company of my grandfather, who had never known who his granddaughter’s father was because my mother, stubborn and proud, had always refused to give him a name.”
< thanks for this fun diversion >
zhena gogolia
@Galahad Threepwood:
Enjoy! Poor Kitty.
zhena gogolia
@minachica:
Ooh, that one sounds good.
romeo24
@Scuffletuffle: Thank you! I sense a theme in the naming of your cats…
CedWest
In fact, having thrown down the gauntlet, appointed seconds, and chosen weapons, the offender should board a steamer bound for America as the offended boards another for Japan where, upon arrival, the two men could don their finest coats, descend their gangplanks, turn on the docks, and fire.
smedley the uncertain
In the Navigation pane section the Show all folders option doesn’t really do what it says.
suezboo
@AnnaN: Hey, I know that one ! The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer. Also my guilty pleasure.
Harvey Katzman
The incident took place in 1952, which is fairly modern in terms of a haunting, if there is a haunting.
Tenar Arha
One more:
Chief Oshkosh
Your back should be slightly arched and your chest sticking out.
Thor Heyerdahl
Since the Norse in Greenland needed wood, there is every reason to think they would have remained regular visitors to Labrador until the mysterious disappearance of the Greenlandic Norse sometime in the late 1400s.
GR
For there is also a sense in which the popular artist is a drug for the audience, and a doctor, too — he has to know how much of his vital essence he can administer at one time, and in what compound.
retiredeng
“What are you doing here so late?”
Nora
In our long trips in his van I learned more about Chris, like his single-minded obsession with the two years in the late 1970s he spent working for a tyrannical construction manager in Hawaii.
Lum’s Better Half
The butterflies fluttered in the blackness, like ghosts wandering without a destination…
seefleur
A. “Will not unreasonably interfere with the ingress and egress of riparian owners…”
Sally
Nor did he look like a man it would be easy for a Western intelligence officer to approach, in any sense.
Galahad Threepwood
@zhena gogolia: Seriously. Vronsky was the wrong horse to bet on, if you were looking for marriage material. I recently read the passage where Levin sees Kitty drive by in a carriage after spending the night on a hayrick and it was transcendently good.
BroD
The examples in this chapter, like most of the other examples in this book, use the Northwind Traders sample database , Northwind.mdb, that is supplied with Access 97.
Sally
Kindle: In return, he received a quizzical look; a head tilted to one side in a way River himself had.
Groucho48
Although her success at Smith had convinced her that she could find a career in writing, within a year after graduation, Betty’s hopes were dashed, so, in the fall of 1896, she devised a new plan for making money.
Lyrebird
There are two variables in this data set.
Ilefttxwhenannlost
BQuimby
“Well, stop feeling sorry for yourself and think about it.”
Ilefttxwhenannlost
But it was typical enough that it piggybacked on legal companies and transactions, crossed enough borders and involved enough legal jurisdictions to make it difficult to unravel
Misterpuff
“The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions”
From the next book in the To read pile. “A Confederacy of Dunces”. Oddly pertinent.
The Book I’m currently reading “Salvation Lost” by Peter F. Hamilton the sentence was “What?” Also pertinent but way less literary.
Debbie(Aussie)
“We could have built a city there.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
Well, in the closest book, p47 is blank. The next closest:
“If the demon is weak enough, and the divine strong of heart and mind even in the last extremity, well, the matter solves itself.”
Barney
“If you are driving through Spaghetti Junction on the motorway, all you have to do is keep going in a straight line.”