Book meme

[elfwreck]

1. Grab the nearest book

Comments

[brock_tn]

I must have been hanging around you and Thorne Coyle for too long. That passage seems perfectly reasonable and unremarkable to me.

[elnigma]

I had mostly tapes near me but I also had a book : 'Prepare. Arise ye men of the good law, and cross the land while (yet) dry.' The Lords of the storm are approaching. Their chariots are nearing the land. One night and two days only shall the Lords of the Dark Face (the Sorcerers) live on this patient land. She is doomed and they have to descend with her.

[chemalfait]

I have that book on my desk as well as it's companion volume, but the Upanishads were on top of the pile.

[serengwen]

Can you tell that I actually put all the other books back downstairs on their appropriate bookshelves???? I sorta giggled about working too hard....

[inflectionpoint]

Sounds perfectly sensible.

What is the book's title? I would like to read a book like this, if the title is something you are up for sharing.

[elfwreck]

Drawing Down the Moon, by Margot Adler. It's the new 2007 edition. I was pleasantly surprised to find something relevant & interesting to me by picking a page at near-random.

[halcyonrain]

Hm...

"Such things often happen within a strangely elastic length of time. As I turn, having felt my nemeton disturbed, a split second stretches out before me, allowing me to take in every last fine detail: his coat, lifted by the speed and spin of his fall, rises in a curve, following him round and down as he crashes heavily into the ground. His face looks so calm, almost touched with curiousity, as if he himself is aware of how slowly he is moving, wondering how and why and where he might land. Then he closes his eyes, just before impact, the tiniest fraction of a second before his elbow smashes down, then his shoulder and hip, and I'm aware of my own body flinching in that instant's empathy."