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tju_tju_tju_tju☇ Take four books off your bookshelf.
☇ Write the first sentence
☇ Write the last sentence on page fifty
☇ Write the second sentence on page one hundred
☇ Write the next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
☇ Write the final sentence of the book
☇ Let your friends guess what book it is.
-1-
First Sentence: Selden paused in surprise.
Last Sentence on page 50: The terrace at Bellomont on a September afternoon was a spot propitious to sentimental musings, and as Miss Bart stood leaning against the balustrade above the sunken garden, at a little distance from the animated group at the tea-table, she might have been lost in the mazes of an inarticulate happiness.
Second sentence on page 100: Not wishing to be the means of effecting this enlargement, Lily quickly transferred her glance to Trenor, to whom the expression of her gratitude seemed not to have brought the complete gratification she had meant it to give.
Next to last sentence on page 150: There was to be plantation music in the study after dinner -- for Mrs. Fisher, despairing of the republic, had taken up modeling, and annexed to her small crowded house a spacious apartment, which, whatever its use in her hours of plastic inspiration, served at other times for the exercise of an indefatigable hospitality.
Final sentence: He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moments to its lees, and in the silence there passed between them the word which made it all clear.
-2- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
First Sentence: When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him.
Last Sentence on page 50: Then they went on and he didnt look back again.
Second sentence on page 100: Now you Papa, he said.
Next to last sentence on page 150: You said nobody was coming.
Final sentence: In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.
-3- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
First Sentence: Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
Last Sentence on page 50: "And behold," said Lo (not for the first time), as she jerked back, and I jerked back, and the car leapt forward.
Second sentence on page 100: From a boulder she smiled through blown hair.
Next to last sentence on page 150: Let us suppose they believe you.
Final sentence: And this is the only immortality you and I may share, Lolita.
-4- A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
First Sentence: Waking up begins with saying am and now.
Last Sentence on page 50: "Oh, I can manage.
Second sentence on page 100: But before he has even reached it, she has asked with harsh impatience, "Well?"
Next to last sentence on page 150: Now I've written it down."
Final sentence: Both will have to be carted away and disposed of, before too long.
☇ Write the first sentence
☇ Write the last sentence on page fifty
☇ Write the second sentence on page one hundred
☇ Write the next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
☇ Write the final sentence of the book
☇ Let your friends guess what book it is.
-1-
First Sentence: Selden paused in surprise.
Last Sentence on page 50: The terrace at Bellomont on a September afternoon was a spot propitious to sentimental musings, and as Miss Bart stood leaning against the balustrade above the sunken garden, at a little distance from the animated group at the tea-table, she might have been lost in the mazes of an inarticulate happiness.
Second sentence on page 100: Not wishing to be the means of effecting this enlargement, Lily quickly transferred her glance to Trenor, to whom the expression of her gratitude seemed not to have brought the complete gratification she had meant it to give.
Next to last sentence on page 150: There was to be plantation music in the study after dinner -- for Mrs. Fisher, despairing of the republic, had taken up modeling, and annexed to her small crowded house a spacious apartment, which, whatever its use in her hours of plastic inspiration, served at other times for the exercise of an indefatigable hospitality.
Final sentence: He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moments to its lees, and in the silence there passed between them the word which made it all clear.
First Sentence: When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him.
Last Sentence on page 50: Then they went on and he didnt look back again.
Second sentence on page 100: Now you Papa, he said.
Next to last sentence on page 150: You said nobody was coming.
Final sentence: In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.
First Sentence: Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
Last Sentence on page 50: "And behold," said Lo (not for the first time), as she jerked back, and I jerked back, and the car leapt forward.
Second sentence on page 100: From a boulder she smiled through blown hair.
Next to last sentence on page 150: Let us suppose they believe you.
Final sentence: And this is the only immortality you and I may share, Lolita.
First Sentence: Waking up begins with saying am and now.
Last Sentence on page 50: "Oh, I can manage.
Second sentence on page 100: But before he has even reached it, she has asked with harsh impatience, "Well?"
Next to last sentence on page 150: Now I've written it down."
Final sentence: Both will have to be carted away and disposed of, before too long.
