A meme, before I go; why don't you try it out? I shamelessly stole this one from
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Book meme:[Take four books off your bookshelf!]
1. Write the first sentence
2. Write the last sentence on page fifty
3. Write the second sentence on page one hundred
4. Write the next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
5. Write the final sentence of the book
[Let your friends guess what book it is!]Note: Some names have been truncated to make them slightly less glaringly obvious.Book One:
1. Mr. S-------, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions where he stayed up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
2. "When did he say this?"
3. A spectral hound which leaves material footmarks and fills the air with its howling is surely not to be thought of.
4. "If you will wait, one or other of us will go back with you to the Hall."
5. "Might I trouble you then to be ready in half an hour, and we can stop at Marcini's for a little dinner on the way?"
Book Two:
1. A----- was the third son of a landowner from our district, F-----, well known in his own day (and still remembered among us) because of his dark and tragic death, which happened exactly thirteen years ago and which I shall speak of in its proper place.
2. He wrote twice from there, but it had already been a year now since he stopped writing.
3. L-------, who knew how to climb wattle fences in order to spend the night in people's kitchen gardens, somehow also climbed up onto F-----'s fence and from there jumped down into the garden, despite her condition, though not without harming herself.
4. "You will make him listen to reason, you will reveal to him that you love another man, that you have loved him a long time, that he is now offering you his hand..."
5. K---- cried once more ecstatically, and once more all the boys joined in his exclamation.
Book Three:
1. Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians.
2. "But perhaps you have friends in London who will perform the same services for you without troubling the editors of the newspapers?"
3. My dear Sir W-----! cried I, how can you say so?
4. He rose from his chair and tugged violently at the bell pull, but no servant appeared.
5. Then he turned upon his heel and disappeared into the Darkness.
Book Four:
1. It was love at first sight.
2. And S------ lay dying in back.
3. I've got some live Maine lobsters hidden away that I can serve you tonight with an excellent Roquefort salad and two frozen eclairs that were smuggled out of Paris only yesterday together with an important member of the French underground.
4. "Where's O--?" someone asked suddenly over his intercom.
5. The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off.
Hmm, perhaps my selections were too singular, too obvious. Well, if you've read the books in question, I mean. But then I suppose the text of most previously read books might have an air of familiarity to it.
Speaking of books, I
still need to grab another novel to read. Oh, why oh why did my dad misplace my copy of Good Omens? I still want to read that again, blast it all!
excited
calm
anxious