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Thread: International Book Week
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Edith
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Take the book closest to you. Turn to page 52. Find the fifth sentence and list it here and / or on your FB page as your status. Don't name the title or author. Share the rules.
'Public and religious ceremonies were conducted according to precise forms of words and any mistake by the officiant was held to be so unlucky that the entire ritual had to be repeated.
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Edith
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Jane R
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# 331
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(You're going to regret asking!)
"The dimensions, which take the form of measures of length employing the unit jtrw 'river' (ca. 10.6 km, similar to the Greek schoinos), vary widely."
[ 24. September 2013, 09:58: Message edited by: Jane R ]
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Jane R
Shipmate
# 331
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I just checked and it seems International Book Week is an informal FB thing, not an official festival like World Book Day. But it's still a good game...
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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'Could a translator create a linguistic anomaly in English that corresponds to this triple division of 'you'?'
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Hedgehog
Ship's Shortstop
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"Feller, you're the first guy I ever saw who looked bigger'n his reputation."
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"We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it."--Pope Francis, Laudato Si'
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
# 333
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What a fun game!
![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Hmmm, game it is.
Keep your clown shoes and red noses inside the mini car at all times. We're off to the Circus!
jedijudy
Heaven Host
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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quote:
Originally posted by Edith:
'Public and religious ceremonies were conducted according to precise forms of words and any mistake by the officiant was held to be so unlucky that the entire ritual had to be repeated.
Wait...not only do I know which book that is,* I was reading it the other night, meaning that it's my closest book! However, I have a different edition, so: "In the social sciences the importance of integration and configuration was stressed in the last generation by Wilhelm Dilthey."
*Correction: okay, so it's not actually the book I thought it was, it just sounds almost exactly like a sentence in my book. Thank you, Google, for crushing my dreams of coincidence.
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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SvitlanaV2
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I have a grammar book fairly close, and it has lots of long sentences of explanations that include demonstrative sentences within them..... Too complicated for me to deal with here, so I'm skipping to the next book on the shelf, if that's allowed!
My sentence count doesn't include the sentence that starts on the previous page.
quote:
But shortly after Pupatee lost his job on the milk round, Joe bought himself a car and stopped using his own bicycle to go to work.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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(Next down the 'in progress' stack)
'A century before, a Byzantine and unreformed judiciary had brought ruin and disaster to Foote's family'.
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Og, King of Bashan
Ship's giant Amorite
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"She hunted for Topic Sentences and Transitional Sentences the way little girls hunt for white violets in the springtime."
OK, I cheated, that was actually the fourth sentence, but while the actual fifth sentence was good:
"What she loved most of all were Figures of Speech."
the fourth just had something more to it.
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"I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?" ― Walker Percy
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ArachnidinElmet
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"My noble Andrea was dead, and at that very moment his funeral obsequies were being celebrated in the neighbouring church - the very church in which I had first beheld the mysterious lady!"
One of the shorter sentences in the book...
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'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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"I forget her name, but she had red fingernails and---"
Moo
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See you later, alligator.
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
# 953
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The rest of her body was swollen, too, especially her belly.
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This is the last sig I'll ever write for you...
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Such religion as she practiced, the nightly prayers she still said, were rooted in gratitude.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Dafyd
Shipmate
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Now if I have 'sensed the colours', I have presumably already had 'intuitions' about which is the lighter, &c., those being inseparable from the sensing.
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we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
# 13878
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It is worth remembering, though, that the cost of Versailles and of the theatrical events promoted there was in the last analysis born [sic] by millions of people who were granted no access to them.
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Technology has brought us all closer together. Turns out a lot of the people you meet as a result are complete idiots.
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Piglet
Islander
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quote:
Bestow thy blessing on the harvest of the waters, that it may be abundant in its season, and on our sailors and fishermen, that they may be safe in every peril of the deep ..."
Can you tell that D. and I share a desk? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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Tea
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How could I have believed that a girl would fall in love with me!
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Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
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This pile of usefule parts increased dramatically with the sequencing of the human genome in 2003
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- insert randomly chosen, potentially Deep and Meaningful™ song lyrics here -
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Jane R
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# 331
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"When Montesquieu uses caractere, he seems to mean a form or shape of the spirit, combining these meanings."
(NB caractere should have a grave accent on the first e, but I can't work out how to do it...)
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Herrick
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She is, throughout the 44-poem sequence, the lover of the man and, in turn, the object of his love (yet she controls the representation of that love).
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A careless shoestring in whose tie
I see a wild civility
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
# 4544
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The sovereignty of the Queen of Heaven is discreetly suggested by the throne enveloped by her robe and by her crown surmounted by a fleur-de-lis.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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"...I'll bath when I get home..."
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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scuffleball
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"J'ai assez et ma mère est d'accord, même si elle ne le sait pas."
From "Le Messager du chevalier noir" by 'Tonke Dragt
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SPK: I also plan to create ... a Calvinist Ordinariate
ken: I thought it was called Taize?
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Certainly I know that.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Tubbs
Miss Congeniality
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"The other [table] was narrow, pushed against a wall".
Tubbs
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"It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than open it up and remove all doubt" - Dennis Thatcher. My blog. Decide for yourself which I am
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ArachnidinElmet
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# 17346
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"But there is a bright side".
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'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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"The Hamburglar does."
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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"Never."
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
# 107
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"I cannot therefore give a full list of victims."
Moo
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Kerygmania host
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See you later, alligator.
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Bob Two-Owls
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Having gained the arete from the left, make a delicate traverse rightwards, parallel to, but at a lower level than the previous route, to gain Mutiny Crack.
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