That book meme

[dreamflower]

Gacked from obeliamedusa

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.


The book on my immediate left is almost always LotR. I keep it there by my computer for easy reference in writing fic, unless I've taken it away with me to read elsewhere. This means that unless the page number changes, almost everytime this meme comes up, my quote is the same But I have an equally nearby book on my right, today.

'In good faith, Sir Gawain,' said the gracious lady,
'the prowess and the excellence that all others approve,
if I scorned or decried them, it were scant courtesy.'"

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
JRR Tolkien

(I had it out to quote from yesterday for the poetry meme. However, since all my Tolkien books are kept in the upper part of my desk, that means inevitably any book I quote from is bound to be either by or about him.)

Comments

Is this apropos or what? consider today's headlines...

[whiskeychick.livejournal.com]

This was truly within arm's reach...From the AP Style Guide

Page 56, 5th sentence (which is included for the entry on comptroller, controller:

"The U.S. comptroller of the currency is an appointed official in the Treasurey Department who is responsible for the chartering, supervising and liquidation of banks organized under the federal government's National Bank Act."

hehe

[sila-lumenn.livejournal.com]

Tolkien is always acceptable! :-) I would have to reach behind a picture frame to grab one of my Tolkien volumes and hubby's bookshelf is directly to my right, so except for a Random House Dictionary, I quoted from one of his books. Instead of re-quoting here, I'll just lead you to my entry here.

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

LOTR's closest to me. ;)

[dreamflower]

This meme has gone around I guess eleventy-one times, and only on three occasions was LotR not the nearest to hand. Once was The Hobbit, and once was a cookbook, I think, and I don't remember the third. This makes the fourth time, but only because I reached to the right instead of the left, LOL!

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

Last time it was a Jimmy Buffett novel for me (A Salty Piece of Land).

[the-arc5.livejournal.com]

Oooh, this is fun. My closest book is The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes which I was perusing instead of doing my French homework this afternoon. Page 56, line 5, reads thusly:

"You had better come with me," said Holmes to the two detectives.

Huh.

[aspenjules.livejournal.com]

hehehe - the closest book to my hand had the following line on the designated page/line:

Howsa Wuffkins?

From Remembering Farley: A Tribute tothe Life of Our Favorite Cartoon Dog.

HEE! *sigh*