“They’d given him a shirt, too.”
Gator-A-Go-Go, by Tim Dorsey. Haven’t read it yet.
“I sell dope, but I ain’t no pimp.”
Pegasus Descending
James Lee Burke
“It makes a good Repastime when there’s nothing else to do.”
From a “The Terrors of the Tiny Tads” strip in The Upside-Down World of Gustave Verbeek. The pages are not numbered, but the publication data says there are 120 pages. So I counted backwards, but I could be wrong. In addition, there are fewer than 11 sentences on the page, so that’s the last one.
The book is one of the very few I’ve bought in recent years because I now use the public library a lot.
“The long tail with white outer rectrices is diagnostic; 41.5 has the outer rectrices with gray edges.”
[Actually, page 111 has only illustrations and no text, so that is the 11th sentence on page 110.]
A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil, by Ber van Perlo.
Loufrani, who’s made millions from the smiley face, claims he invented it in 1968 “to illustrate positive stories” after student riots rocked France that year.
Uncle John’s Gigantic Bathroom Reader, “The Pop Artists”
It was so dark on either side of them that Harry thought there must be thick trees there.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling
Despite the increasing commercial investment in the burgh’s agricultural lands, the town-dwellers’ connection with the activities of the countryside continued.
Townlife in Fourteenth-Century Scotland, Elizabeth Ewan. It’s a little dry.
Actually, slightly closer but underneath some boxes…
well, 111 is a picture.
112:
“I did not think Caroline in spirits,” were her words, “but she was very glad to see me, and reproached me for giving her no notice of my coming to London.”
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith.
“His eyes and thick fingers moved without apparent haste, and without ever lingering or fumbling or going back, from one inch of their fields to the next, probing, scrutinizing, testing with expert certainty”
From The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammet.
The Children of Hurin by J.R.R Tolkien
Never actually finished reading this book.
“Chapter 6 goes into more detail about research ethics”
Research Methods for Business Students Fourth Edition by Saunders, Lewis, & Thornhill
“Determine the force in each cable needed to support the 500-lb load.”
Engineering Mechanics: Statics & Dynamics, R. C. Hibbeler.
So that’s where that book went…
“Brush with olive oil and sprinkle with pepper.”
Moroccan Modern Hassan M’Souli
“Keeps people browsing till the storms over.”
Shoppe Keeper By Harlan Ellison, found in the short story collection Shatterday.
It was on top of a pile by my desk.
“Errors in posting, such as charging an incorrect amount, are treated as an adjustment to revenue, regardless of the accounting period in which the error occurred”
Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry (tenth revised edition)
“My feeling about manuals is that the other fellows probably read them too.”
The Gun Seller, by Hugh Laurie (yes, that Hugh Laurie).
My book failed on a few counts. It’s not 111 pages long - I chose to flip to page 11 instead. There are fewer than 11 paragraphs on page 11. I chose the last one. That done, here’s my contribution
“And then something caught her eye.”
– Little Miss Splendid by Roger Hargreaves
“Oldenburg’s wife had lately died - not of the Plague - and some supposed that he stayed in London hoping that the Black Death would carry him off to wherever she was.”
From Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver. Also the next to last sentence on the page, because he likes his sentences long and convoluted. A comma lover, that one.
Civility n pl.
OSPD 4th edition
“Smith also respected the abilities of Quesnay’s two most prominent disciples, Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, who was Louis XVI’s comptroller of finances, and Pierre-Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, who became an economic advisor to the French revolutionary government until he was denounced for being insufficiently radical.”
On ‘The Wealth Of Nations’
P.J. O’Rourke
Hah! I’m at work right now and have that book close to me, but not closest. I got the book during grad school for a database course I took, and being that I do some database programming at work I use it as a reference.
Anyway, my contribution:
“The state of server objects and their method implementations should not be directly accessible to clients.”
Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture (A System of Patterns), Volume 1 by Frank Buschmann, Regine Meunier, Hans Rohnert, Peter Sommerlad, and Michael Stal, part of the Wiley Series in Software Design Patterns
(Incidentally, the passage comes from the section on implementation of the Broker architectural pattern. And that book, too, came out of my grad school studies.)