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deborahjrossGrab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
"No," he pushed me away, "because within the hour I will be enlaced by common hands." LUI: A VIEW OF HIM, by Louise Colet, translated by Marilyn Gaddis Rose (my former sister-in-law). According to the cover flap, Colet was a spurned lover of Gustave Flaubert, and this novel was a response to MADAME BOVARY, "a novel in which she found several intimate details of her affair and in whose heroine she recognized unflattering aspects of her own behavior."
The book happened to be sitting on my desk, which is why it was closer than anything on the nearest shelf (Darkover books pertaining to the Novel Underway and references like dictionaries). it's actually darned near unreadable, as the above sentence illustrates. Marilyn and my brother divorced a number of years ago, so there is no sentimental attachment, but it's too scholarly to give to the library for its book sale. Not sure what to do...
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
"No," he pushed me away, "because within the hour I will be enlaced by common hands." LUI: A VIEW OF HIM, by Louise Colet, translated by Marilyn Gaddis Rose (my former sister-in-law). According to the cover flap, Colet was a spurned lover of Gustave Flaubert, and this novel was a response to MADAME BOVARY, "a novel in which she found several intimate details of her affair and in whose heroine she recognized unflattering aspects of her own behavior."
The book happened to be sitting on my desk, which is why it was closer than anything on the nearest shelf (Darkover books pertaining to the Novel Underway and references like dictionaries). it's actually darned near unreadable, as the above sentence illustrates. Marilyn and my brother divorced a number of years ago, so there is no sentimental attachment, but it's too scholarly to give to the library for its book sale. Not sure what to do...
