The Cattery

The Cattery

Page 23

16 April 2004
Filed under Books, Language, Text, The Interweb

Hicksdesign and Airbag suggest that we:

  1. Grab the nearest book.

  2. Open the book to page 23.

  3. Find the fifth sentence.

  4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

So the book is Mr Paradise, by Elmore Leonard, and the sentence is:
"This time Montez could not shuck and jive the man with a shrug and grin."

Views from the Floor

Helen says:

'William Frater: A Life Colour' states the following:

'This encapsulated an attitude that was evident throughout Frater's subsequent career.'

gripping stuff

Peter says:

Mine is Alexander McCall Smith's 'The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs':

'Dear Professor von Igelfeld,' the letter began.

A tantalising teaser indeed.

Tim Stitz says:

'The desire for simplification is justified, but the same does not always apply to simplification itself'.

Primo Levi - 'The Drowned and the Saved'

deep stuff i suppose. TS

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