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12 January 2010
Rules of the game. Grab the nearest book. Turn to page 55. Go to the fifth sentence. What does it say?→[More:]
"The floor was thoroughly wet, disguising any tracks." The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld.
In Moabit you were never safe; people lived too close to the border between survival and starvation.
City of Shadows: A Novel of Suspense ~ Ariana Franklin
This is an e-book, actually, so it doesn't have regular page numbers. In my e-reader, I have "locations," so I looked up how many pages the regular paperback is, divided that by 55, then divided the last (highest) location number in my ebook by this number to get to what would be about the same spot, presumably. Which behavior didn't really seem very weird to me until I started explaining it in actual words.
Not only did it confirm that Caroline was actively procuring girls from the streets under false pretences, but that she was a dangerous threat to the morality of young women in the community.
From a biography of Mme Brussels, Marvellous Melbourne's Queen of Harlotry
Our experience then presents us with a problem, which derives from the fact that, at the very heart of the primary processes, we see preserved the insistence of the trauma in making us aware of its existence.
In a rare moment of introspection, Frank said: "I'm too much of a volatile man. I admire someone who can walk away after being needled, quietly ignoring the whole thing."
The Way You Wear Your Hat (Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin') by Bill Zehme - this was a gift to my friend Chris. I brought it back when I was cleaning out his apartment after he passed away. He loved Sinatra.
LOWER FLAMMABLE LIMIT (LFL): The minimum concenteration of vapor in air at which propagation of flame will occur in the presence of an ignition source.
*knowledge may help with richat's volatile man above....*
Dickens now proposes Sketches by Boz and Cuts by Cruikshank in preference to a more cumbersome joke-title they had been toying with that rather pointlessly parodied a contemporary travel book.
Indeed, just a year later Henry Taylor drafted a comparable reply to a similar petition, revealing in the process amazing callousness and an obtuse disregard of Jamaican realities.
When looking at correlational data, as described above, we need statistical techniques to describe how the attributes we are studying relate to one another.
-Psychology textbook (doing work on it)
"Levi, like other surviving witnesses, was ashamed of what he had seen, of what others had done; he felt "the shame the Germans did not know, that the just man experiences at another man's crime; the feeling of guilt that such a crime should exist..."
"But even when not celebrating on the streets, Blacks could not avoid attacks from those dressed as Jim Crow or Aunt Sally."
David Roediger's "Class, Coons, and Crowds in Antebellum America".
For a moment he gazed unseeing into the darkness of the mine, and there, in these depths, under the suffocating weight of earth, he saw his childhood again- his mother, still pretty and stout-hearted, abandoned by his father, and then taken up again after marrying another man; living between the two of them who both preyed on her, and finally rolling with them in drink and filth down to the gutter.
The classic symmetry between reader and writer is broken whenever the writer presents distinctions as if they are the product of his own exceptional insight or temper, distinctions the reader could not have been trusted to see on his own in the right circumstances.
A way of walking, a gesture, a smile would suddenly touch me deeply; I should have liked to run after the stranger turning the corner and whom I might never see again.
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter ~ Simone de Beauvoir
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