Grab the Nearest Book...

[Lotharian]

E1 + E2 + E3 + E4....+En = V1 + V2 + V3 +V4....+Vn

Guess THAT one!

 

[Munachi]

From an early age, she traveled with her parents all over Western Europe and the United States during school breaks.

 

[OnHarry]

But she said:"Lo,let all those of the folk of the Elves or the children of Men that are bound within these walls be brought forth," and behold Beren was brought forth but of other thralls there were none, save only Gimli, an aged Gnome, bent in thralldom and grown blind, but whose hearing was the keenest that has been in all the world, as all the songs say.

I don't have my copy immediately handy, so I am guessing, but is that from "The Silmarilion"?

 

[Maid of Marvels]

I was considering something... Although using page 28, line 10 is fun, what if we used the first paragraph from either the first or even another chapter of the book -- let's decide in advance which. (Bear in mind that books, newspapers or magazines, etc. without "chapters" can still use the original format.)

Whatcha think?

~Maid

 

[cobrasangel]

"He turned to look at his watch on the bedside table"
(10th line)

 

[Lonely_Hunter]

I don't have my copy immediately handy, so I am guessing, but is that from "The Silmarilion"?

Oooo...very, very close. Book of Lost Tales II! I'm impressed that you got as close as you did! You must be a pre-movies Tolkien fan.

 

[Munachi]

Israel es liberado del poder de los egipcios para pertenecer a Dios: Ex 3,10 y 3,12; 19,4 y 19,6; 20,2 y 20,3.

And there is actually another page 28 in the same book:

No te llamarás más Abram, sino Abrahán, pues te tengo destinado a ser padre de una multitud de naciones.

And a third one:

Nadie remienda un vestido viejo con un pedazo de tela nueva, porque el pedazo nuevo tiraría del vestido y la rotura se haría peor.

 

[Original_Cyn2]

Great idea

I was considering something... Although using page 28, line 10 is fun, what if we used the first paragraph from either the first or even another chapter of the book -- let's decide in advance which. (Bear in mind that books, newspapers or magazines, etc. without "chapters" can still use the original format.)

Whatcha think?

~Maid

What about taking it one step further. Whatever chapter appeals, first paragraph?

 

[OnHarry]

Oooo...very, very close. Book of Lost Tales II! I'm impressed that you got as close as you did! You must be a pre-movies Tolkien fan.

Well yes actually, I am, and if I had not been so lazy I could have gotten it bang on, as I have both, as well as I and Unfininshed Stories.

 

[Guest]

I remember everything that's happened since my reawakening, I know all about Julius Caesar, but I can't imagine what comes next.

 

[Bacigalupo]

I'll just pick the first chapter, first paragraph for this one....


I used to be a thief. At age eight, I wanted a lipstick so badly I cased the five-and-ten-cent store for an hour, and when no one was looking, lunged across the counter for a tube of Purple Passion, grabbed it and ran like hell. I got away with it, too, until my brother caught me admiring myself in my swag and blurted out to Mother that her daughter was throwing stolen kisses at the bathroom mirror. My bottom still throbs when I think about my punishment.

 

[Original_Cyn2]

3rd Chapter, 1st Paragraph

Beauty stood at the foot of the bed, her hands clasped behind her neck, her buttocks throbbing with a warm pain that felt so much better now than the spanking she lately received that it was almost pleasure.​

 

[Bacigalupo]

I haven't forgotten about you thread...

First Chapter, first paragraph:

March 17, 1994, Munich, Germany.
"I can't believe I lost my fucking ear; bang bang!" Now, I'm not a big proponent of the "F" word--in fact, I went from age six to age twenty-one without saying it once--but this was a special occasion, and it cried out for a strong expletive. In fact, without the "F" word, that statement just isn't as impressive, is it? Bang bang? Well, for those who know, no explanation is necessary, and for those who don't, well, we'll get to "Bang bang" soon enough.

 

[Auras3124]

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.

isn't that from the bible?

 

[Auras3124]

This is an example of interpolation because we have estimated a value between observed values.

28th page, 10th line

 

[Bacigalupo]

How about this?

Second Chapter, second Paragraph:

But, hey, my job had its benefits too, such as free tennis privileges at the club, which I used liberally--until my racket-throwing, yelling, and court-diving ways led to the termination of my court privileges. Looking back, I think I may have actually thrown the town lifeguarding test to avoid the indignity of wearing the official bikini bathing suit that the town guards were required to wear. Even at a lean, mean 200 pounds, Mrs. Foley's little boy was never cut out for Speedos. So as a result, I grudgingly accepted my responsibility to watch out for children.

 

[android1966]

isn't that from the bible?

Yep, King James version

 

[Auras3124]

i knew it!

 

[MercyMia]

My primary concern is, and must be, my recovery.

 

[Bacigalupo]

Keeping the theme...

Third Chapter, Third Paragraph:

I recently asked my dad if he'd been by the gym to see the plaque honoring him as the gym's namesake. He replied that he had, but that he'd had to move a soda machine in order to see it.

 

[Maid of Marvels]

first chapter, first paragraph

Thursday, 7th November

Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints. Through rotting kelp, sea cocoa-nuts & bamboo, the tracks led me to their maker, a White man, his trowzers & Pea-jacket rolled up, sporting a kempt beard & an outsized Beaver, shoveling & sifting the cindery sand with a teaspoon so intently that he noticed me only after I had hailed him from ten yards away. Thus it was, I made the acquaintance of Dr. Henry Goose, surgeon to the London nobility. His nationality was no surprise. If there be any eyrie so desolate, or isle so remote, that one may there resort unchallenged by an Englishman, 'tis not down on any map I ever saw.

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

 

[Bacigalupo]

Fourth Chapter, Fourth Paragraph:

Nom really bottomed out when a combination of girlfriend problems and not making the baseball team sent him into a tailspin. Many was the time that I had heard a knock on the door, followed by a disheveled Nom simply saying "three". I felt for Scott, and would immediately hand him side three of Pink Floyd's The Wall, which was our standard album side for depression and misery.

 

[say_please]

Chapter 8 First paragraph

Morning blossomed with vibrant hues that glistened upon and changed the colorof the waters, touching the tossing surf with the pinks and golds of the breaking dawn. The very air seemed laden with a rosy mist, and the greens of the lawns and trees spread endlessly beneath until they joined the blue of the gently rolling sea.

 

[chris2c4u]

It stressed the the saints were only intercessors whose entreaties might go unheeded, but it readily countenanced the innumerable prayers offered to them on more optimistic assumptions.

 

[lushlips18]

"Oh kitten," Gwendolyn said softly, reachting to correct one of her sister's wayward curls.