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.

;)

[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.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

lol... thanks.

[dilvalicious.livejournal.com]

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

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

where did you get that from?

:)

[dilvalicious.livejournal.com]

sorry, I forgot to put that

"By the Light of the Moon" by Dean Koontz

[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. :)

[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?

[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.

[theoriginalme.livejournal.com]

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

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."

[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

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

[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

[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

[peraventure.livejournal.com]

yes, please!

[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]

you've just made my life VERY DIFFICULT.

:P

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

many thanks.

:)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

are you quoting The Archies to me?

:)

Re: Technical manual on how to use a music program

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

erm.... ok?

:P

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

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