The random page game

[lithium]

OK, so here's how it goes.

Pick up the book closest to you on your desk, on a nearby shelf - whatever. Open it to a random page, and type in the first full sentence on that page.

Here's mine:

"Although for practical purposes in ordinary situations we use language as if it were transparent and as if meanings and intentions existed prior to it, literature, in its freedom from any referential obligation, demonstrates the supremacy of language over all other activities."

From "Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative Introduction", p96:confused:

[Peace-Phoenix]

"Birds need foods rich in carbohydrates and fats to help them build up the vital reserves of body fat that they need to survive long, cold nights." (Burton, 1990: p102)

Burton, R (1990) Birdfeeder handbook London: Guild Publishing

[lithium]

I put the first book back on the shelf, so I now have a new closest book!

"The lawyer put it in his pocket."

"Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", Robert Louis Stevenson, page 60:D

[paulfreespirit]

she bent over and stretched her legs out wide well she was cleaning cat shit of the carpet ..........janet and john ........

[feral]

Medium-scale theatres would normally be considered as those with perhaps less than 1000-seat capacity, without a significant array of stage machinery, but provided with proper fly suspension systems and orchestra pit facilities suitable for taking smaller productions with cast not normally exceeding 20-25 individuals.


(p20-14, Metric Handbook - Planning And Design Data, Second Edition, David Adler)

[Lagan]

in this intricately structured listening experience, then, who speaks?

voicing the popular: on the subjects of popular music, richard middleton, page 106

[phoenix_indigo]

And the peanut butter-eaters on Earth were preparing to conquer the shazzbutter-eaters on the planet in the book by Kilgore Trout.

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegutt, page 170

[phoenix_indigo]

Another book:

The character and traits of Death were so much like his own, Shafer was thinking as he sped south along I-95.

Pop Goes the Weasel - James Patterson, page 220

[CaptainDave]

"I don't know about you, but that sentence disturbs me."

Dave Barry, Boogers Are My Beat. p117

[CrucifiedDreams]

"Makes yourself appear to be weak in order to make the enemy proud and rash, he wrote"
Forbidden City - William Bell

[lithium]

We debated long whether we should pluck them and at last left them to live out their day, which I was right glad of at my return the Sunday following for there they remained uninjured either by cold or wet.

"The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth" page 165

[verseau_miracle]

The primroses were over

Watership down-Richard Adams...lol

[fountains of nay]

"It had begun the moment the Hallowed Travellers had declined to stay in the nearby Shogunate castle of Sakamoto that had graced the area since before Sekigahara, selecting the Inn instead: 'Everything must be perfect!' the Patron wailed, awed and at the same time petrified."



"Gai-jin" - James Clavell

[lithium]

"The more we peeled, the more peel there seemed to be left on; by the time we had got all the peel off and all the eyes out, there was no potato left - at least none worth speaking of."


Jerome K Jerome "Three Men in a Boat", page 138

[Lagan]

douglas suggests that it is the excessiveness of tears, their superfluity to the species and cultural requirements of biological preservation and reproduction, that leaves them free to represent elements of the social order - elizabeth grosz, voltatile bodies: toward a corporeal feminism, page 196

[Roffa]

"Yeah" was all Joey could manage.

- The Last Days of Christ the Vampire, by "JG Eccarius"

[dapablo]

I changed into my clothes and drove out to find them on the estate, the four of us ending up on the steps of the school playground, just sitting together and smoking, talking about drugs that people used to take in the 1960's, the youngsters boasting about all the things they didn't care about.

Andrew O'Hagan - Be Near Me

[Samhain]

I'm sure you lot are picking books that will sound the most impressive
S

[Samhain]

"its an inexcusable violation" he declared. "whoever did such a thing is barbaric"
A few minutes after i spoke to Mr Whttleman, Aunt Bet returned with Uncle Philip and took him into the parlor to show him the piano. He shook his head and grimaced with disgust.

Virginia Andrews 'midnight whispers'

[tomplus]

"Makes yourself appear to be weak in order to make the enemy proud and rash, he wrote"
Forbidden City - William Bellthats some Sun Tzu shit

[Roffa]

Bark beetles are small and cylindrical with a large prothorax covering the head.

- Small Woodland Creatures, L-H Olsen et al.

(OK, I'm in the library, that book's on the nearest shelf to where I plugged in my laptop.)

[fountains of nay]

"Adter I'd finished reading the newspaper I shoved it inside my sweatshirt whee it served two purposes: it kept me warm, and acted as a nipple guard."

Rebuilding Coventry by Sue Townsend

[lithium]

Now, lying in the ditch with Billy and the scouts after having been shot at, Weary made Billy take a very close look at his trench knife.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five p.27

[fountains of nay]

"King Big-Twytt knew something was going wrong when his Queen came in with green teeth, a bald head with mushrooms growing on it and her dress on fire."

Sir Nobonk, And the Terrible, Awful, Nasty Dragon [Spike Milligan]

[phoenix_indigo]

"She came close to me. I could smell the new leather. The glove was tied with string, a softball in the sweet spot like a large pearl inside an oyster."

Cruel and Unusual - Patricia Cornwell, page 210

[Moon_Beam]

Mine is:

"The dwarf went on dancing and I ate my grapes"

Haruki Murakami - The elephant vanishes

[Roffa]

"None o' your business! You keep your head shet, and mind y'r own affairs -- if you got any."

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain.

[lithium]

"Cut or stab with knife; seek to defeat by underhand means."

Sounds like a good read, I might get into this!:eek::D

The Concise Oxford Dictionary, p.597

[phoenix_indigo]

:lol:.

[Roffa]

Till then I live here in the crypt with Nelson, who, Langby tells me, is pickled in alcohol inside his coffin.

- Connie Willis, "Fire Watch", in The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Science Fiction, vol 1.

[lithium]

"Philosophers are often correctly accused of indulging in armchair psychology (or neuroscience or physics or...), and there are plenty of embarrassing tales about philosophers whose confident a priori declarations have been subsequently disproved in the lab."


Daniel Dennett, "Consciousness Explained" p.464

[Quoth the Raven]

"Titus is seven - his confines, Gormenghast; suckled on shadows; weaned, as it were on webs of ritual."
Mervyn peake - Gormenghast.

[dollydagger]

He wondered, as he had many times wondered before, whether he himself was a lunatic. - 1984

[J0hn]

Woman in ice.

[Roffa]

"It's interesting to note that drinking vinegar has become a national pastime in Japan over the last few years, with average monthly sales at Uchibori's six fruit vinegar stalls jumping by 10% in two years."

- Vinegar: 1001 Practical Uses, Margaret Briggs.

[lithium]

First, Williams challenged the prevailing endorsement of group selection, the notion that adaptations evolved for the benefit of the group through the differential survival and reproduction of groups, as opposed to benefit for the gene arising through the differential reproduction of genes.

David M Buss, Evolutionary Psychology: The new science of the mind, p.15

[dollydagger]

He was in the situation of a chess player who cannot avoid checkmate and is forced to resign. - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

[Power_13]

The process works much like Windows 200 but is not as straightforward. A printer can be set up locally, or a print server can be set up to handle all the printing requests and to forward those requests to the appropriate printer."

The Linux Daemons section of my Cisco IT Essentials II book.

[Roffa]

"Now she was left alone in London, obviously pregnant, to face friends and household cares while Godwin vagabondized [sic] as far as the Wedgwood home in Etruria, Staffordshire, writing long and deeply affectionate letters it is true, but delaying his return in a manner that produced panic in Mary".

- The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, Claire Tomalin.

[Peace-Phoenix]

"Let me not be misunderstood, I do not mean to suggest that subaltern counterpublics are always necessarily virtuous."

- Nancy Fraser in Calhoun ed. 'Habermas and the Public Sphere'

p124

[fountains of nay]

'when he finally calmed down, he threw his arms wide open and said, "Well, friends of that most hateful enemy of mine, Sonic the Hedgehog" - at which everyone in the room cheered - "I, the most brilliant mind on Mobius, the greatly distinguished and eggstroadinarily brilliant Dr Ivo Robotnik" - at which everyone hissed - "have finally built the weapon to destroy him completely. But before he gets his once and for all, I am going to test it on you! I shall now give you a short eggsegesis of my theory."'

Sonic the Hedgehog in Dr Robotnik's Laboratory [Martin Adams]

[Roffa]

"Let me not be misunderstood, I do not mean to suggest that subaltern counterpublics are always necessarily virtuous."

- Nancy Fraser in Calhoun ed. 'Habermas and the Public Sphere'

p124 controversial stuff that!

P-P, I've been away from home for a few days and am starting to suspect you've been raiding my bookshelves ...

[Peace-Phoenix]

Hahaha, I never expected anyone else would have Calhoun's volume on Habermas. What drew you to the book? Did you study sociology, or was it general interest reading?

[Roffa]

Well, I got into Habermas via my original specialism of linguistics - I was interested in his notion of "communicative competence". I think I got that particular book because it was going cheap at Sandpiper Books in Brighton.

[fountains of nay]

" The tintinabulation of the Bells, drove Poe insane; he stabbed himself to death with a state-controlled raven."

The Little Pot Boiler [Spike Milligan]

[lithium]

"In delusional speech the Other is truly excluded, there is no truth behind, there is so little truth that the subject places none there himself, and in the face of this phenomenon, this ultimately raw phenomenon, his attitude is one of perplexity."

Jacques Lacan, "The Psychoses" p.53:stunned:

[Raskalization]

Spike laughed and raised the glass of Bank's bitter, halting it an inch from his lips. - cheers Bob, he grinned, his deep-set eyes furrowing into one narrow slit which looked like a mouth, moy all your problems be small uns!

Irvine Welsh- Ecstasy/Wolverhampton 1963

[fountains of nay]

"Turning around, trying to make it to the big doors to the doors trying to mkae it to the doors being dragged under trying to make it to the doors dragged under when a bouncer beam swoops down on waves of ice and all the dancers around are stuck sudden on full freeze and I'm caught in the same cold crush jungle slow-motion overload and running now like tepid flesh smoke too much fucking glitch in my system! straight into the arms of corporate security with the MC's voice booming over the speakers...
It's soundclash time!"

Homo Karaoke (short story 12), Pixel Juice [ Jeff Noon]

[Roffa]

"The difficulty of Western military forces maintaing control over the Middle East was great in 1920. But it has increased over this century. Almost exactly seventy years before Saddam Hussein seized Kuwait, British troops were fighting a widespread rebellion in Mesopotamia, as Iraq was then known. Even at that time, military experts were privately concerned that the costs of projecting power into a hostile Middle East would prove too high."

The Great Reckoning - How the World will Change before the Year 2000, James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg, 1992.

[Peace-Phoenix]

"What was appropriate for Muhammad's community in the seventh century CE must be appropriate for all communities to come, regardless of the circumstances."

Reza Aslan - No God But God

p162

- Important to note he's criticising this position, not supporting it....

[fountains of nay]

"During the course of the day her menstrual blood had begun to flow, and what she had taken previously as a matter of course now filled her with unfamiliar feelings."

The Chymical Wedding [Lindsay Clarke]

[mellowthyme]

As a teacher and painter Klee was invariably conscientious, painstaking and well-prepared.

Bauhaus, Frank Whitford.

[Roffa]

Adverb phrases do not appear in predicative position.

- Nigel Fabb, Sentence Structure.

[CrucifiedDreams]

"You can do a lot to a person - you can utterly destroy a person - all without leaving a single visible mark."

Adbusters

[lithium]

"She looked around this place they'd never fully moved into - had they? - so why this sad feeling of imminent goodbye?"

Thomas Pynchon, "Vineland" p.89

[CrucifiedDreams]

"All of these outcomes in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq could have been foreseen and almost certainly were"

Adbusters

[mellowthyme]

This is for real. The first book and page I looked at.

masturbate v.t./i. stimulates the genitals (of) manually. masturbation n.

Pg 310. The Oxford minidictionary, second edition compiled Joyce M Hawkins. Printed 1988.


You know, that's gave me a creative an practical idea.http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/newsmilies/3/set12_b/stunned.gif

[Roffa]

I remember when I was at school looking up "masturbation" in the dictionary and it said "Bodily self-pollution". I'm not kidding - this was a long time ago mind.

[phoenix_indigo]

Seriously opened to here ... not makin it up. ;)


"[Even in] the disco when Lexo nodded ower at her dancin and sais tae ays: - That cunt's ours the night, I just thought it wis like, wishful thinkin."

pg [180] 181 Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh

[fountains of nay]

"Respond to the following, using take something off and the information in brackets in an appropriate way in each case"

Really learn 100 Phrasal Verbs [Oxford University Press]

(I'm not learning phrasals...I have to teach them this week!)

[CrucifiedDreams]

My mom killed my dad long before he killled himself.

Post Secrets

[fountains of nay]

"The crew pull down their hats, tug up their collas, pull down their hoods, adopt their balaclavas, ride on out of there."

"Pixel Face", Pixel Juice [Jeff Noon]

[lithium]

"It is very natural, then, to connect this transformation with the awakening of his sexual activity that had meanwhile taken place."

Sigmund Freud, Case Histories II (1979) p.253

[fountains of nay]

"Studying languages at deree level gives you the ability to communicate and interact confidently with people outside your own community."

University of Leeds, school of modern languages and cultures undergraduate courses prospectus.

[Roffa]

She unscrewed clenched fingers from her eyes and looked up, while the elder girl glared at him resentfully and said: "We don't want anything. We're going now."

- Alan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (and other stories)

[phoenix_indigo]

"Harry Houdini was renowned for his escapism but in fact there were many great escapists who preceded him and many who were his contemporaries."

- The Vanished Man by Jeffery Deaver pg 220

[phoenix_indigo]

"The drive to the arena was a routine one, with Eddie getting ever more hyper as game time approached."

-The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy pg 300

[phoenix_indigo]

"Mister Duck's bedroom was a lot like mine had been - clothes in heaps, dog-eared posters on the walls, duvet scrunched up at the bottom of the mattress, battered Matchbox cars on the shelves, marbles and toy soldiers everywhere else."

The Beach by Alex Garland pg 225

[phoenix_indigo]

"That's right," Rodgers said.

Op-Centre: State of Siege by Tom Clancy pg 177

[phoenix_indigo]

"Expedited" was spy-speak for "illegal." It mean that an operation was being rushed before anyone could learn about it and block it.

Op-Centre: Line of Control by Tom Clancy pg 183

[phoenix_indigo]

"What a fuckin nondy cunt!
Hud the daft cunt singin that
auld song.

Distant fuckin Drum, ya
cunt."


The Acid House by Irvine Welsh pg 152

[phoenix_indigo]

It was still quite early, an autumn morning, and Silverknowes beach and the foreshore were deserted. The tide was going out.

Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh pg 165

[phoenix_indigo]

They were smiling at him now.


Black & Blue by Ian Rankin pg 262

[phoenix_indigo]

He looked at Peter and then back at Randi. "All of us have said the insane rivalry, even within our own governments, will destroy us. This one has all the potential for an Armageddon. ..."

The Paris Option by Robert Ludlum pg 163

[phoenix_indigo]

Unfortunately the 25-year stress is just a statistical concept that offers no guarantee about what will happen next year, or next week.


The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger pg 122

[NumberNineDream]

"I am a star and they call me the sun."

[Roffa]

And one day, as Gwythyr son of Greidol was travelling over a mountain, he could hear weeping and woeful wailing, and it was terrible to hear.

- "How Culhwch won Olwen", The Mabinogion.

[lithium]

"Because such elisions are unthinkable, we return obsessively through the reruns and revised scenarios to that still point in time, the caught moment of pigeons flying up from the Texas Book Depository at the report of gunshots and the image of the president's wife reaching for the portion of her husbands scalp blown onto the rear deck of the Lincoln Continental by the fatal head shot."

Patrick O'Donnell, "Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia in Contemporary US Narrative" (Duke University Press 2000) p46

[fountains of nay]

"Is it possible that race didn't really matter for these white women and men and that they simply never happened to browse a nonwhite date that interested them?"

FREAKONOMICS

[redyelruc]

"E incredibile, ma i giapponesi son convinti d'avero sulle loro isole tutto;dalla tombo di Cristo alle piramidi, dalla perfetta replica di una cittadina tedesca al castello<<originale>> di Babbo Natale."


In Asia - Tiziano Terzani........ page 150

roughly translates as.....

It's incredible, but the Japanese are convinced they have everything on their island; from the tomb of Christ to the pyramids, from a perfect replica of a German citizen to the original castle of Santa Claus.


Peace,
Aidan

[Roffa]

"When Harry awoke the following day, it was several seconds before he remembered what had happened"

- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, p. 255.

[phoenix_indigo]

"The last lick of flame, slowly consuming a set of curls over the soldier's left ear, was extinguished by the black ooze of blood welling from where the circular head of the wrench had hit."

Canal Dreams by Iain Banks pg 152

[CrucifiedDreams]

"GO!" Harry beseeched Luna and Dean."

Guess. :P

[Roffa]

"Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's."

that book again, p., 337.

[laidback gilb]

"a new animal was abroad on the planet, spreading slowly out from the african heartland"
2001 a space odyssey page 46

[moonhawk]

"And the next thing after that was that the Heart of Gold continued on its way perfectly normally with a rather fetchingly redisigned interior."

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

[razy]

Reparable a. that can be repaired or made good.

The Little Oxford Dictionary, fourth edition, p.455

[Roffa]

BELLO: You will make the beds, get my tub ready, empty the pisspots in the different rooms, including old Mrs Keogh's the cook's, a sandy one.

Ulysses.

[lithium]

"Much of it is marred by racism, naivety, presumption and plain ignorance, and there are often facile generalisations by people who should know better (eg Ernest Renan, TE Lawrence) as in vague statements about "the Arab mind", "the Asian sensibility", "the Semitic temperament"."

"The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory" p.665

[phoenix_indigo]

"Take a second green-tipped (co-axial) cable and connect it where it says 'cable modem' on the splitter (it doesn't matter which end of the cable you use)."

Broadband Quick Start Guide pg 10

*hey it was near the computer* ;)

[Roffa]

MacLeish asked me who my boyhood heroes were and I told him, "Robin Hood and St George the Dragon Slayer".

- Bob Dylan, Chronicles volume one.

[phoenix_indigo]

"There was no such excuse now, and it was even more terrifying in daylight; unbelievable numbers of bicycles, trucks belching black diesel fumes, garish buses, motorised trikes and cars driven seemingly at random in any direction as long as it was either directly across our path or on a collision course."

'The Business' by Iain Banks pg 154

[lithium]

"The weather was very delightful, and on the Sunday we made a great fire, and drank tea in Bainriggs with the Simpsons."

The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Romantic Poetry and Prose, p.621

[IlUvMuSIc]

he told me of his life in the land of Submarines. We all live in a Yellow Submarine, Yellow Submarine, Yellow Submarine.

The Complete Piano Player, Book 3

[lithium]

"What beautiful boots!" she exclaimed.

Virginia Woolf, "To the Lighthouse" p167

[dollydagger]

"Ludwig Van Beethoven expanded nearly every aspect of classical composition. His works are longer and larger in scale than those of his contemporaries and predecessors."

from my music appreciation textbook (its a good book, for a textbook!)

[Roffa]

I was a Grim Reaper until I started taking antidepressants.

Dilbert calendar 2005, Dec 21st.

[phoenix_indigo]

"I brought my gun my tight on his forehead but that pirate never even wavered."

Pollen by Jeff Noon page 266

[phoenix_indigo]

"The night reached such a depth of velvety blackness that he might have been suspended in limbo between Disapparition and Apparition."

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows page 298

[Roffa]

He turned himself into a bull, and fought in that shape.

- Men and Gods, Rex Warner, p. 131.

[phoenix_indigo]

"Our in the entrance chamber again, they could hear the screams of the passengers being fed coffee and biscuits."

- page 90 The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

[Roffa]

"Nobody keepes tall fellowes at his heeles".

John Southworth, Fools and Jesters at the English Court, p. 218.

[glasgow 69]

"The punk thing started pretty much unmusically"

Rotten: No Irish. No Blacks. No Dogs, p.74

[Roffa]

When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent.

- The Book of Prefaces, Alasdair Gray, p. 552.

[phoenix_indigo]

'This man, he tied her up and pushed her into the water. He tried to kill her!'

- The Vanished Man by Jeffery Deaver, pg 162

[nynysuts]

Outside the gate where she had to leave him, he started to bite his nails, because he wasn't sure whether she would want him to kiss her goodbye.

P. 322 The follyfoot collection. It's kinda fitting is all I can say.

[Roffa]

Slowly the Herero woke to the realisation that the land they roamed and the water-holes they used now "belonged" to someone else.

Ruth First, South West Africa p. 77

[nerthus]

'The cunning Archtempter well knew from repeated experience that men are most easily brought to ruin through their wives, and so he directed his usual malice against us too, and tempted you through marriage when he could not destroy you through fornication.'

page 85, forbidden fruit - from the letters of peter abelard and heloise.

phew. long sentences in the twelfth century.

[Roffa]

Formally defined RDFS schemas aren't required for all RDF documents, but the schema approach guarantees that a particular RDF document is semantically and syntactically consistent across implementations.

- Practical RDF, Shelley Powers, p. 118.

[little ski]

'The Pranksters moved on to Mexico City and environs, giving a couple of acid tests, but without any astounding gusto.'

- Kool Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe.

[i0-techno]

"So the Isrealites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, to the land of Gilead - to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh."

Joshua 22:13 - Bible

[Jaitaiyai]

"Brine fire and bring shell and heap all upon the pyre."

Warhammer 40K. pg 96

[it sounds freakier than it is.]

[Roffa]

"It is worth paying attention to such details as warming the pot and using water that is really boiling, so as to make quite sure of wringing out of one's ration the twenty good, strong cups that two ounces, properly handled, ought to represent".

- George Orwell, Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters 3.

[The_Egg]

The use of the crossroads as a symbol of Satan's presence comes from the concept of being the final resting place for suicides and those unworthy of being buried in hallowed ground. (Take a walk on the Dark Side, Rock and Roll myths, legends, and curses - R. Gary Patterson p5)

[Lynnbrown]

"Whatever's wrong, I don't have what's needed to fix it."
Dean Koontz; Strange Highways

[Roffa]

I propose that the palantiri were made of thousands of alternating, microscopically thin layers of lithium niobate and beta carbon nitride.

- The Science of Middle Earth, Henry Gee, p. 142.

[lithium]

"Seeing co-operation as not just a rational problem but also an evolutionary one suggests why these dispositions should take the form of feelings rather than rationally motivated cogitation." Pascal Boyer, "Religion Explained" p.213

[tomandhismuse]

'For the thing about a myth is not whether it is true or not, nor whether it should be true, but that it is somehow truer than truth itself.'

Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally

[Roffa]

Now when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arab and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and that there was no gap left in it (though up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates) Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying "Come and let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono".

- The Bible

[opel diamond]

contray to reputation, many pike cichlids are reasonable fish for the cichlid community. - the bumper guide to tropical cichlids. fish research :D

[Fingermouse]

<If you need to request a second account, get an account with restricted permission (if at all possible) because your web database application will be more secure if the account used for your PHP programs doesnt have more privileges than necessary>
-PHP and MySQL for Dummies


Thats me snoozy enough for bed

[Joshua Tree]

"The following pages give full instructions for resuscitating an infant under 1 year who is apparently lifeless."

First Aid Manual,
The Authorised Manual of St. John Ambulance, St. Andrew's Ambulance Association, and the British Red Cross

[Jaitaiyai]

"A principle of Shoshana's was: never bother the police unless they bother you."

Thirteen steps down - Ruth Rendell.
I've had this book on loan from the library for ages, not yet read it though.

[Roffa]

Taken literally, the statement "I was wondering if you would be able to drive me to the airport" is a prolix string of incongruities.

- The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker

[lillallyloukins]

The leaf-distribution system of plants is determined by a strict mathematical progression (the famous Fibonacci series), but where this arrangement is closely confined, as in the cabbage, the leaves jostle with each other to create a complex, chaotic mass.

LI - Dynamic Form In Nature
by David Wade

[ica]

'They can be heard, sometimes, the moutains, they can be heard as they shift closer; a deep, low rumble from within the earth followed by a slow and persistent grinding, the hunger pangs of an immeasurable beast in subterranean slumber embossing its vast shape on the landscape, spurnose, mountainnipple, cliffrib, immense, recumbent and green.'

From A Personal Guide to West Wales , anonymous authorship, privatley printed, p. 70

[Raskalization]

The hands of all four thousand electric clocks in all the Bloomsbury Centre's four thousand rooms marked twenty seven minutes past two.

Brave New World - 1932

Aldous Huxley

[ROLLINGALONG]

Many white Americans acknowledged the agrarian skills of the Cherokee.Chickasaw,Choctaw,Cree and Seminole-as well as their adoption of European customs.

[lillallyloukins]

Many white Americans acknowledged the agrarian skills of the Cherokee.Chickasaw,Choctaw,Cree and Seminole-as well as their adoption of European customs.

hey R...is that from Bill Brysons book "made in America"?... was reading that on my trip.. if it's not, what book IS it from please? :)

[etherea]

The sheet may be glued to the board at the edges, a fast setting vegetable-type paste is necessary or you lose the stretch.