meme from ben
find an appropriate number (he had ten) of your favorite novels on amazon. pick a handful of ‘statistically improbable phrases’ for each (only works for ‘search inside’ books). list phrases associated with each book with book names omitted. invite friends to guess which phrases came from which book. (google is not allowed, as in most cases it makes the exercise trivial.)
q10 already took a few of the ones i might otherwise have used. asterisk indicates not actually a novel.
1. elegant female
2. scupulous meanness*
3. butter side*
4. parley room, witch consul, symbol reader, golden monkey
5. yes suh, post office corner
6. football phone, campaign physician, horseshoe drive, inaugural platform, black envelope
7. old sport, yellow car
8. three superstates, chinless man, chocolate ration, girl with dark hair
9. bloated colonel, tighter bomb pattern, more combat missions
10. hunderd miles, tenant men, great owners, git work, gray tents