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05-31-2005, 09:13 AM
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Lurking with Intent
Maid of Marvels is online now
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Grab the Nearest Book...
Simple rules, handy tools...
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Turn to page 28.
3. Read the 10th sentence.
4. Post the text of that sentence here.
purloined (with permission) from
beansoup
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05-31-2005, 09:18 AM
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Literotica Guru
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Vigorous trade on the Silk Road helped spread Kushan culture.
Patrick
(source: Lonely Planet, Central Asia)
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'dies Zwischending aus stummer Kraft und Küssen' - this hybrid gift that's part brute force, part kiss. (Rilke, Sonnet 14)
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05-31-2005, 09:28 AM
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Lurking with Intent
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to extremes of wickedness every other day of the week.
"What Lips My Lips Have Kissed"
Daniel Mark Epstein
You may (but don't have to) post the title and author of the book. Me? I wanna know. But it would be fun to guess, too -- even if you make up a title. 
Whatcha think?
~Maid 
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I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking
among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops?
What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans following you,
and followed in my imagination by the store detective.
We strode down the open corridors together in our solitary fancy
tasting artichokes, possessing every frozen delicacy, and never passing the cashier.
Allen Ginsberg
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05-31-2005, 10:39 AM
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Really Really Experienced
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"But folks, I have to tell you, in the bullshit department a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman."
(Source: Napalm & Silly Putty, by George Carlin)
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You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it!
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05-31-2005, 10:44 AM
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Virgin
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I looked at her in silence. I have a rule not to argue with women
The insatiable spider man by Pedro Juan Gutierrez
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06-03-2005, 01:23 PM
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Lurking with Intent
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No readers?
Duke Ferdinando I (who had started his career as a cardinal in
Galileo's Daughter - Dava Sobel
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I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking
among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops?
What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans following you,
and followed in my imagination by the store detective.
We strode down the open corridors together in our solitary fancy
tasting artichokes, possessing every frozen delicacy, and never passing the cashier.
Allen Ginsberg
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06-03-2005, 03:50 PM
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Supertramp
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"Thufir Hawat slipped into the training room of Castle Caladan, closed the door softly."
any guesses?
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06-03-2005, 03:54 PM
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Lurking with Intent
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*waves hand*
I know! I know!! 
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I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking
among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops?
What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans following you,
and followed in my imagination by the store detective.
We strode down the open corridors together in our solitary fancy
tasting artichokes, possessing every frozen delicacy, and never passing the cashier.
Allen Ginsberg
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06-03-2005, 03:57 PM
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Supertramp
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I thought it was kind of an obvious 10th sentance... but, it's what it was!
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My very first story submission to Lit was accepted!! Read it here!
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06-03-2005, 03:59 PM
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Lurking with Intent
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Doesn't mean that someone else won't guess or "make up" a title.
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I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking
among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops?
What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans following you,
and followed in my imagination by the store detective.
We strode down the open corridors together in our solitary fancy
tasting artichokes, possessing every frozen delicacy, and never passing the cashier.
Allen Ginsberg
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06-03-2005, 06:32 PM
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Really Experienced
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They had dwelt in the mountain valleys - and, formerly, in the foothills, as well - since the World Death ended the Time of the Gods, and were themselves the descendents of gods.
Okay, obscure, I know. But feel free to take a guess.
(Okay, it's The Savage Mountains , by Robert Adams)
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Soulhunter - "Not all. Only the special ones. Leaders, thinkers, poets, dreamers, blessed lunatics."
Sinclair - "What do you do with these souls after you've saved them?"
Soulhunter - "We enshrine them. Worship them. We talk to them, listen to them. We learn from them."
Babylon 5, Soulhunter episode.
Last edited by stalwartone : 07-09-2005 at 06:28 AM.
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06-04-2005, 12:02 AM
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Experienced
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This one didn't turn out so well. The 10th sentence on pg 28 is...
"See?"
But that was the nearest book. The next nearest book (of prose anyway) goes like this...
ok this one's fuckin' lame too. Forget it.
What the hell else do I have around here? Ok this aint prose, this is screenplay. GAH! 28 is a blank page. I'm not kidding.
Strike 3. I'm out.
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06-04-2005, 12:44 AM
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Supertramp
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"I'll go to some island where they don't have a flyer of their own."
If someone can guess that one, I'll give them a cookie.
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06-04-2005, 04:16 PM
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Really Experienced
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Originally Posted by Calyxxx
"I'll go to some island where they don't have a flyer of their own."
If someone can guess that one, I'll give them a cookie.
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Well, I thought I had it with a guess of Jonathon Livingston Seagull , but when I leafed through it for confirmation, I was proven wrong. I'll keep trying to place it.
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Soulhunter - "Not all. Only the special ones. Leaders, thinkers, poets, dreamers, blessed lunatics."
Sinclair - "What do you do with these souls after you've saved them?"
Soulhunter - "We enshrine them. Worship them. We talk to them, listen to them. We learn from them."
Babylon 5, Soulhunter episode.
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06-05-2005, 02:44 AM
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Really Experienced
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two gossips broke up with a mutal "Dex ais"; and Hugh pushed
~ Wine of Satan by Laverne Gay
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06-06-2005, 02:53 AM
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Person of Disinterest
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She was alone in Behavioral Science and had the run of the place.
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06-06-2005, 03:44 AM
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Literotica Guru
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As the sounds of the bells died away a voice began to speak from somewhere high up in the gloomy shadows above their heads.
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07-03-2005, 03:45 PM
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Person of Disinterest
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We finally decided on the potter's field, because practically every body in Christchurch was embalmed; a thing of course ruinous to West's researches.
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07-03-2005, 04:06 PM
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Experienced
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Directions even I can follow!
They begin to be people, and they aren't people, not anymore.
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07-03-2005, 04:27 PM
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Bishier than thou
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"What do you want to do about submitting them to the Executive Meeting?"
Good luck because, frankly, I think you're going to need it. 
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Which FF Character Are You?
Hunter: “And you’re a tool, boy. A tool built for a single purpose by the United States of shut your damn third eye for a fucking reason! You can’t teach a hammer to love nails. That dog don’t hunt!”
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07-03-2005, 05:08 PM
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Really Really Experienced
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Every hour be firmly resolved, as becomes a Roman and a man, to accomplish the work at hand with fitting and unaffected dignity, goodwill, freedom, and justice.
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07-03-2005, 05:11 PM
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Scribbler of Smut.
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And Rebecca arose,and her damsels,and they rode upon the camels,and followed the man;and the servant took Rebecca,and went his way.
No prizes for guessing this one.
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07-03-2005, 06:53 PM
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Lurking with Intent
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It was she who had alerted my father to Nelson's eradication. One...
(It almost sounds literary. )
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I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking
among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops?
What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans following you,
and followed in my imagination by the store detective.
We strode down the open corridors together in our solitary fancy
tasting artichokes, possessing every frozen delicacy, and never passing the cashier.
Allen Ginsberg
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07-03-2005, 09:53 PM
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Literotica Guru
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"Walking a long way to them, too," said Lord Peter, "to get such blisters as that."
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C'est tout bon!
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07-03-2005, 10:03 PM
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Greedy wench
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It was high, higher than any bond-price set in my years at Cereus House.
Kushiel's Dart by Jaqueline Carey
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