04.15.2004
sentences
Reminded of this by RightLeft's a book game of sorts post. I originally saw this, (recently, anyway,) at this Reflections in d minor post, where it's slightly different, and I've also recently seen it (in the same form as RightLeft's) on udm's livejournal.
For no good reason, I've modified the thing. In case anyone else was going to do this, I'd like to point out that it's an utterly pointless exercise. Or almost, anyway. I don't imagine anyone needs me to tell them that. My excuse is that I'm moving -- I've got stacks of books that I'm preparing to pack, and so from fifteen of those books, I've picked 15 subsequent lines from 15 subsequent pages. I've numbered the lines, page number followed by sentence number. (As I finish typing this up I just... man. I just, really, you know? I'm actually about to post this. No shit. What a. wow. Maybe someone will want to say, "Hey, I know that line!" Just in case, I'm not including references. I've got those secretly tucked away over here.)
23, 5: When mother and father came home, they were the only Waltzes in town.
24, 6: He begins to tick it back and forth in front of him.
25, 7: Mr. Kubrick then came into the room carrying a thick pile of diagrams and charts, and looking like the popular conception of a nuclear physicist who has been interrupted in the middle of some difficult calculations.
26, 8: "I assure you, madam, I didn't put anything in your coffee."
27, 9: They had big noses and receding chins and foreheads.
28, 10: Of course not.
29, 11: She could see the white crescents of his nails.
30, 12: She stood up and faced him.
31, 13: It had been in Eloise's family for years, coming into her hands from a dead grandmother.
32, 14: Then, with unbearable gentleness, the water of night began to fill Janine, drowned the cold, rose gradually from the hidden core of her being and overflowed in wave after wave, rising up even to her mouth full of moans.
33, 15: And even less need for me.
34, 16: The manhunt for Saffran began.
35, 17: He did not love his life, but it was a way of making a living.
36, 18: Two of the campsites are accessible by car.
37, 19: When I was in central, before I came up here, one of the tame males jumped me once.
Otherness...
FONTANA, Calif. (AP) -- The alleged gunman in a drive-by shooting was booked on suspicion of killing the driver of the car during the attack, police said Tuesday.
Passenger Richard Allen Eppard, 20, was firing a semiautomatic gun out the driver's side window Thursday when he shot Christopher Bonadiman, 20, of Fontana in the head, police said.
Finally, I've wanted to write something in response to this Informant post, but I've obviously been too busy transcribing sentences from books. (See, up there, I really did!!! Did you see???) This guy's saying something very cool here, and I think a few of you readers might wanna go check it out:
I've come to believe that there are people capable of inhabiting their entire lives, all at once. That this gives them a kind of immortality, though clearly an incompete version. And just as there are people who speak and act, in the moments we share with them, in the present as we see it unfolding, who at the same time are being themselves entirely - old and young and in between - start to finish, there are people who have access to varying degrees of that same totality.
