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Howdy. We've moved from Cayce, but St. Elizabeth of South Rose Hill or Lizette de Waccamaw de Sud just don't do it for me.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Literary Meme

From a friend who share's Izzy's literary tastes:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

Feel free to post your sentence in the comments, here, too.

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Here's mine:

"Alas, the roses will fade!" said the Neapolitan, archly.

Followed by this 6th sentence:

Thus conversing, they wore away the hours; the lovers conscious only of the brightness and the smiles of love; the blind girl feeling only its darkness---its tortures; ---the fierceness of jealousy and its woe!

The Last Days of Pompeii, 1835 (my copy printed 1892)
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. (as the name occurs on the title page of my edition)

Great Victorian prose, vintage Lytton.

Posted by St. Elizabeth of Cayce at 9:19 PM

10 comments:

St. Izzy said...

Here's the reply to the meme that I posted over on that friend's blog:

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Two books, equidistant. I have to reach behind me with my left hand to grab them (you've seen the livingroom; I'm on the long couch by the big windows).

"No, no; unhappy Dido, fallen as thou art, thou art not fallen into the pit of ink into which commentators represent thee to have fallen." R.G Austin's commentary on Vergil's Aeneid book 4 ad 537 ultima, quoting James Henry's Aeneidea.

and

"We leave behind us the grim memories of medieval Rome and the narrow dark alleys of the fifteenth century and find ourselves in the Via di Monserrato, a street of fine old palaces, baroque churches and quite a number of antique and junk shops." Georgina Masson, The Companion Guide to Rome, eighth edition rev. John Fort.


pax et bonum,
Izzy
who doesn't really keep a journal and so is posting here

Wed Apr 25, 10:17:00 PM
Warren said...

I said I'd only speak to her, and when I gave them my name, they gave me her mobile number.


(A long way down, Nick Hornby)

Wed Apr 25, 10:23:00 PM
Sean said...
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Thu Apr 26, 07:39:00 AM
Sean said...

"Nine years later he was offered the dilapidated diocese Mantua."
--A Calendar of Saints (entry for August 21, Pius X)

This is actually the third closest book, the second closest (Making the Day Holy) having only 62 pages, and the closest being a dictionary I didn't see until I'd already begun typing this because it's burried under some papers.

Thu Apr 26, 07:41:00 AM
Greg Graham said...

"You can run all the tests in a file by running that file." from Programming Ruby. I'm at work. :(

Thu Apr 26, 09:43:00 AM
City Yogin said...

"The birds responded with a loud cry of 'Ti-Lo! Ti-Lo!'"

From City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple.

Thu Apr 26, 06:40:00 PM
St. Elizabeth of Cayce said...

Wanted to save this link:

I got picked up and HT'd by "Right Reason: The Weblog for Conservative Philosophers."

Link with nearly 90 comments (as of 5-13-07) here.

Thanks, Kate.

Sun May 13, 09:16:00 PM
Anonymous said...

"The Letter to the Hebrews places special emphasis on this aspect, which it presents as an essential component of Jesus' path: 'For because he himself has suffered and been tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted' (Heb. 2:18)"

-Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth

Mon May 14, 07:43:00 PM
St. Elizabeth of Cayce said...

OK, who's already gotten an English copy of the B16 book?

Mon May 14, 10:03:00 PM
Unknown said...

It discerns in lines and colours, or in tones, what is beautiful and what is not.

Newman's Idea of a Liberal Education

Wed May 16, 07:15:00 AM

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