Weekend Wrist Exercise

[dotinthesky]

THIS IS A COMMONPEOPLE MEME:

I want you to find the nearest book/magazine to you, flick through it, and select a sentence ---> randomly.

Then I want you to leave a comment here with that sentence (and, if you like, where you got it from.)

I'm going to write a short story interconnecting all of the sentences, then post it here for my public shaming.

Go forth my children and bring me back the sentence.

Comments

[iifu.livejournal.com]

"The only crazy I was was when I married him."
- The Great Gatsby, chapter II

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

thank you. That's a great one.

[androktone.livejournal.com]

He looks upset and vulnerable, a teasing fringe concealing a slight glassiness to his right eye


and old copy of Gurardian Arts section, from an article about the Von Bondies.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

cheers.

;)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

lol... thanks.

[canudiglett]

"Phone numbers and graffiti were scrawled on the walls, and on a wardrobe, a slogan was found: Drink, drink, wherever we may be."

From an article in Take a Break about their YobCam campaign.

[dilvalicious.livejournal.com]

Bewildered by what had happened, Tom nodded, smiled uncertainly.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

where did you get that from?

:)

[shell-shock.livejournal.com]

"The term as employed in these maps does not refer to the total population of a country, i.e. not to Belgians or Moroccans, but to the ethnic groups living there, namely Flemings and Walloons or Arabs and Berbers."

i don't know if that helps or not, but it's from a 2001 edition of Barron's "Pocket Atlas of the World" that i had laying on my desk. :)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

everything is good...

:)

[ickycrawlything.livejournal.com]

Hahaha...

If breasts become too full or mother has to be away for a feeding or two, the breast milk may be easily expressed by hand or with the aid of a device called a breast pump.

lol...would you like the accompanying picture of milk being expressed by hand?

[peraventure.livejournal.com]

yes, please!

[pantomimewhore.livejournal.com]

If anyone offended him or made him angry he thought about it for a long time, and wouldn't forgive them.

enid blyton - those dreadful children, chapter one.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

many thanks.

:)

[theoriginalme.livejournal.com]

"You're not 29 years old. This isn't 1965."

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

are you quoting The Archies to me?

:)

Technical manual on how to use a music program

[thebeatnick.livejournal.com]

"Beams are the thick lines used to join eighth notes (quavers) and shorter notes into groups."

Re: Technical manual on how to use a music program

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

erm.... ok?

:P

[kurwa.livejournal.com]

"It's partly the cogency of the argument, but also the vitality of the language."

-Best Newspaper Writing 1989
Edited by Don Fry

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

lol... everyone has given me such easy sentences.

HAHAHA

[soopahiro.livejournal.com]

"It struck me as odd that he could steal gasoline and threaten the lives of countless strangers, yet feel the need to hide so completely while peeing."

--David Sedaris, Naked

Re: HAHAHA

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

hmmm... that's a good one.

;)

[phyrephly.livejournal.com]

"pues ahi estaba el mar, y del otro lado del mar estaba el mundo."

-El General En Su Laberinto by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

great!

[peraventure.livejournal.com]

"The complaints of the returning pilgrims (particularly those of Peter the Hermit) about their treatment by the Muslims in Palestine had no foundation: Christian and Muslim pilgrims visited their holy pplaces in Jerusalem, and were the main support of the local economy."

- God of Battles, Peter Partner

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I'm rattling my bones all over the stones...

[lala-jones.livejournal.com]

"In some boarding-houses, leadership was provided by a dominant male, usually an older, more experienced sojourner or a man of good standing in the village who presided over the house 'with seigniorial authority ... who had to be consulted about everything.'"

From "Sojourners and Settlers: The Macedonian community in Toronto to 1940", by Lillian Petroff

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Looking at all these sentences made me realize that... I'm fucked!

:P

[5500.livejournal.com]

Crazed with love for the lady in pink, I covered my old uncle's tobacco-filled cheeks with mad kisses, and, while with some embarrassment he let me know without venturing to tell me openly that he would just as soon I not talk about this visit to my parents, I said to him, tears in my eyes, that the memory of his goodness was so powerful within me that one day I would certainly find the means to show him my gratitude.

Proust, Swann's Way, Part I, Ch. 2.
hehehe. have fun!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

you are evil.

:)

[roguejournal.livejournal.com]

"Relatives: These are the people you don't see all year until Christmas and then you realize why you haven't seen them all year.
They like to bring you little incy lollies even though you are fifteen and sometimes they give you a pound, and act as if they've done something to change your life."

From : I was a Teenage Worrier - by Ros Asquith - 1992)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

only one sentence Meire! I'll take the second one.

;)

[alaric3.livejournal.com]

"Instead, I'm peeling Trojans off the floor and earning valuable practice at fighting off the vomit reflex."

-Will Leitch, Life as a Loser

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Today is my lucky day.

[jeffster.livejournal.com]

"Be showered and dressed an hour before your guests arive."

In Style Magazine

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Lol... I've got enough to fill a novel.

[icymorning.livejournal.com]

I know this is everybody's answer to everything and I'm sorry, but if ever a chap needed to get laid, it's Barry.

Nick Hornby, High Fidelity.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

more characters = more fun.

;)

[psyfi.livejournal.com]

Unlike people with physical disabilities, who are protected from discrimination by federal law, no such protection exists (yet, at least) from another group whose members are frequently victims of prejudice -gay men and lesbian women.


wow! that's a serious one. I got it from this book on my table, the one i used for an assignment i wrote for a friend...."Behaviour in Organizations"....well, hope u can come out with something using this sentence. good luck, olie...:)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

thanks! something is shaping up in my head.