And, given my tenacious memory, I got a lot out of it that has remained with me all the rest of my life.
In Memory Yet Green, the autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954
“I’m walking,” Talia said.
The Stepsister Scheme by Jim C. Hines
“Mr. Cooger’s ribs under his collapsed shirt were stone-rigid and his teeth under his clay lips were dry-ice cold.”
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
The Habr Gidr was insulted by the paltry sum being offered for its leader.
Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden
whoops. Wrong thread.
“In this unfamiliar way of reckoning intervals we symbolize the pas-
age of time by imagining passenger Brown hurtling along at the speed
of light.”
Einstein’s Universe, Nigel Calder
“She reached out to one side and caught Jiande’s hand, and squeezed it.”
The Madness Season, C. S. Friedman
when we meditate with the spirit of a smile, we awaken our capacity for uncoditional friendliness.
radical acceptance - embracing your life with the heart of a buddha, tara brach, phd
“His hostage, his conduit out of Zurich!”
The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum
“Moist crawled across the carpet, reached up, grabbed the arrow and ducked down again.” from Making Money, by Terry Pratchett.
That was actually book number 3 - Così fan tutte, the closest book (score) doesn’t have eleven bars on page 111, let alone eleven sentences; Full Speed Through the Morning Dark, the next closest, doesn’t have 111 pages…
The Vinegar Bible, published in Oxford in 1717, was so named because the parable of the vineyard was given as “the parable of the vinegar” in Luke 20.
- Salisbury & Sujo, Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art (Penguin)
There are not 11 complete sentences in the body text of p. 111; the above is from a footnote.
The closest book to me is Overstreet Comic Price Guide (1991-2 edition) Page 111 has no real sentences on it as the page is basically a list of things with prices so … the second closest book is Ingersoll’s Theory of Financial Decision Making. 11th sentence of page 111 is
That is, V[sub]1[/sub] > 0, and the investors’ optimal portfolios are on the upper limb of the locus of minimum variance portfolios.
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries and Jack Trout
11th sentence on page 111:
Funny since the writers are referring to the Japanese. Hehehe.
You want to win, don’t you?
LOOKS- Madeleine George
My daughter asked me to walk to BAM with her to get it for her last week.
Kobal2 beat me to it - the second closest book does not have eleven sentences on p. 111, so I’ll quote the last complete sentence:
“The night was as black as a night could be, warm velvet black with no stars at all; he could detect the ship’s motion by her urgent heave and thrust, and living vibration of the wood under his hand, and the creak of the blocks, cordage and canvas overhead, but never a sail nor a rope could he see, nor even the steps in front of his nose as he crept up.”
Patrick O’Brian loves commas just as much as Stephenson does and throws in some affection for the often insufficiently appreciated semicolon as well.
Quicksilver is my current read-on the-commute-and-during-lunch-book and The Far Side of the World is my backup-read-on the-commute-and-during-lunch-book.
“Whosoever knowingly introduces, or manufactures for introduction, into interstate commerce, or transports or distributes in interstate commerce, any switchblade knife, shall be fined not more than $2,000 for imprisoned not more than five years, or both.” - 15 USC section 1244.
Customs Law Handbook
It is also used in journalistic and technical material and in academic work of a technical or statistical nature.
*The Gregg Reference Manual *(Ninth Edition), William A. Sabin.
I was light to carry.
“The Water-Method Man,” John Irving
“Does automatic enrollment merely overcome workers’ inertia, helping them make the choice they would actually prefer?”
-* Nudge - Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness*, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein.
“Pete, here, is a wise man,” Barnes said confidentially.
Robert Heinlein, Columbus Was a Dope, from 50 Short Science Fiction Tales.