
Aaarr, I be tagged by th’ saucy wench alejna , begad!
- Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages)
- Open the book to page 123
- Find the 5th sentence
- Post the next three sentences
- Tag 5 people
The nearest book is here on my bedside table – The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies, which I am presently rereading. I happen to be on page 124 at the moment so I just read this bit last night before falling asleep with the lamp on and the book in my hands. Okay here goes. . .
‘Poshrat!‘ she screamed again, and spat in my face. This was a scene we had played many times in our life together, my Mother and I, and I knew better than to try to wipe away the spittle. It was something that had to be endured, and in the end it would probably work out as I wished.
The Rebel Angels is book one of The Cornish Trilogy . An excellent read.
And now, at the risk of alejna making me walk th’ plank aaarr, rather than tagging 5 people I’ll make this a self-tagging ‘me-me’.
Let us know what’s on your page 123!
From Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham.
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(from The Alphabetic Labyrinth by Johanna Drucker © 1995, Thames & Hudson Ltd, London)
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first glance up from the laptop found “The Santaland Diaries” – a script by David Sedaris. Alas, only 54 pages, so i grabbed the nearest work by Sedaris:
(from Me Talk Pretty One Day)
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~ Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
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Symptoms and signs in clinical medicine:- Colin Ogilvie
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Practical Surface Analysis
Second Edition
Volume 1 – Auger and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
edited Briggs and Seah
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(Raulston Saul 1993) (page 124 because there weren’t any sentences on 123)
First Canadian Edition
Sociology
A Brief Introduction
Shaefer, Floyd, Haaland
By the way … what does “Poshrat” mean? I’m thinking something close to the “f” word?
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Apparently it means half-breed in Romanian.
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arnold? did i read that right? there is someone else hanging out at casa az who knows band edge shifts in semiconductors?!?!? damn. small world… haven’t done Auger or XPS in years, but we’ve got a team of really smart folks who do it for us… whoa.
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Yep, it’s rather a diverse bunch here at casa az, daisy.
Um… meat tower?
Oh, and Fanny, you’re a couple of sentences short in yours.
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Yeah sorry, I misread. here we go again.
Symptoms and signs in clinical medicine: Colin Ogilvie.
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You did indeed daisyfae, you did indeed. Got a stack of (well, 2) books on XPS and auger on my desk. Speaking of band edge shifts, I just read a paper on modeling Schottky contacts of nanomaterial semiconductors !!!
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The Assault on Reason, Al Gore
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arnold – oh my. our professional orbitals probably overlap… casa az is indeed an eclectic place! too cool!
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