Because everyone else is doing it
Leaving for Boston in a few hours, so I'm currently staring at my suitcase, trying to puzzle out exactly what I'm forgetting. So what do I do? A meme!
Swiped from dolorous_ett, ignipes, a_t_rain, and dolabellae
The game is as follows - I give the last sentence or couple of sentences from five of my favourite books. Your task - to identify the books.
Since I've already played the 'First Lines' game, the books will be different this time round. ;) Yes, I really do have that many favourites.
1. 'And it cast its pale light upon the three glasses of wine that had each been left deliberately behind, brim-full, on a stone table, a stone bench, on the rim of the fountain there.'
2. 'It is also a fact that M. Chauvelin, the accredited agent of the French Republican Government, was not present at that or any other social function in London, after that memorable evening at Lord Grenville's ball.'
3. 'Life itself proceeds in its unpredictable infinite patterns - so unlike the measured dance of stars - until, for the satisfaction of their entertainment, the watchers choose a point at which to stop.'
4. 'I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.'
5. 'And so Luth lifted his voice wtihout shame, feeling a deep rechness, a glory in the night, as he galloped his horse down the winding, empty road to the south, past farm and castle, village and field and forest, under the risen moons and stars above Arbonne.'
Two are by the same author, and if you've been reading my journal for the past two months or so, you could probably guess. One is blindingly obvious, but the lines before it really don't say much. One nineteenth-century, and one very early twentieth-century. The rest are modern.
Swiped from dolorous_ett, ignipes, a_t_rain, and dolabellae
The game is as follows - I give the last sentence or couple of sentences from five of my favourite books. Your task - to identify the books.
Since I've already played the 'First Lines' game, the books will be different this time round. ;) Yes, I really do have that many favourites.
1. 'And it cast its pale light upon the three glasses of wine that had each been left deliberately behind, brim-full, on a stone table, a stone bench, on the rim of the fountain there.'
2. 'It is also a fact that M. Chauvelin, the accredited agent of the French Republican Government, was not present at that or any other social function in London, after that memorable evening at Lord Grenville's ball.'
3. 'Life itself proceeds in its unpredictable infinite patterns - so unlike the measured dance of stars - until, for the satisfaction of their entertainment, the watchers choose a point at which to stop.'
4. 'I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.'
5. 'And so Luth lifted his voice wtihout shame, feeling a deep rechness, a glory in the night, as he galloped his horse down the winding, empty road to the south, past farm and castle, village and field and forest, under the risen moons and stars above Arbonne.'
Two are by the same author, and if you've been reading my journal for the past two months or so, you could probably guess. One is blindingly obvious, but the lines before it really don't say much. One nineteenth-century, and one very early twentieth-century. The rest are modern.