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oyceterI found a DVD of His Girl Friday at Fry's for five bucks! Yay!
And I felt happy all day because I had a froopy white skirt on with lace underneath, and it swished around quite wonderfully when I walked.
And now, that book quotes meme that everyone was doing a while back. Answers posted later.
1) "... but now [Name A] is off after [Name B], trying to rescue him as if he were the hero of a book, only the book was written by Malory or Spenser, or more likely Disraeli, while [Name A] was written by Cervantes, and love him as I do, he is not cut out for danger or intrigue, and I am frightened half out of my wits for him ..."
2) "5. Buggre Alle this for a Larke. I amme sick to mye Hart of typefettinge. Master Biltonn if no Gentelmann, and Master Scagges if noe more than a tighte fisted Southwarke Knobbeftick. I telle you, onne a daye laike thif Ennywone withe half an oz. of Sense shoulde bee oute in the Sunneshain, ane nott Stucke here alle the liuelong daie inn thif mowldey olde By-Our-Lady Workefhoppe. @ --*"AE@;!*
"6. And bye the border of Ephraim, from the east fide even untoe the west fide, a potion for Reuben."
3) "'I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation.'
"'I had weasels instead,' said [Name A] shortly.
"'Good God,' said [Name B], looking at her. 'That explains a lot.'"
4) "My father despaired of me; my sister wondered at me. But my despair was greater if I caged my wonder, like a wild bird."
5) "With her last conscious strength, she cupped her hands and immediately felt the warmth between the palms, as if she held a small sun; and then the heat surged up her arms and into her body, reaching into every niche and cranny, till it had reshaped her flesh into her own precise, familiar, individual contours, and she was neither water nor ice nor unmaking but again herself."
6) "He opened the candy then popped it into his mouth. He and [Name] crunched away in unison. The two of them ate the entire bag thus, chatting sporadically, to no particular end, as they sucked and crunched and moved the hard, aromatic candy with their tongues, clicked it on their teeth."
7) "She had always somehow, in her secret heart, never thought of him except in a world of knights and ladies, the sort of world that one read about in the old romances, where hermits knelt praying among the gray rocks and champions rode out to slay dragons from high turreted castles -- not the sort of castles that could ever go to ruin because the scrub had not been cleaned out of the water meadows and there was no money for the ditching and the drainage."
8) "'Now I'm going to do a most unladylike and inexcusable thing," she said, as she pulled her green velvet hat out of its box. 'I'm going to kick this hat about the room until it is without form and void; and I shall never as long as I live wear anything of that shade of green again.'"
9) "[He] drove even more heroically on the way back. [She] could not blame him. He had a lot on his mind. But some of his maneuvers did bring a slight taste of green milkshake to the back of her throat, and sometimes she could not prevent herself saying things like 'Aren't you supposed to drive on the other side of the road?' or 'I think that driver was hooting at us.' And after he had dropped her outside her house, she did wonder if he would reach London without getting wrapped round a tree on the way."
10) "She was seventeen that spring, not yet accustomed to men calling her beautiful. A pretty child she had been, but adolescence had found her long-limbed and coltish, prone to skinned knees and bruises from rough play in the gardens at [place] -- activities ultimately deemed unfitting for a Princess of the realm."
And I felt happy all day because I had a froopy white skirt on with lace underneath, and it swished around quite wonderfully when I walked.
And now, that book quotes meme that everyone was doing a while back. Answers posted later.
1) "... but now [Name A] is off after [Name B], trying to rescue him as if he were the hero of a book, only the book was written by Malory or Spenser, or more likely Disraeli, while [Name A] was written by Cervantes, and love him as I do, he is not cut out for danger or intrigue, and I am frightened half out of my wits for him ..."
2) "5. Buggre Alle this for a Larke. I amme sick to mye Hart of typefettinge. Master Biltonn if no Gentelmann, and Master Scagges if noe more than a tighte fisted Southwarke Knobbeftick. I telle you, onne a daye laike thif Ennywone withe half an oz. of Sense shoulde bee oute in the Sunneshain, ane nott Stucke here alle the liuelong daie inn thif mowldey olde By-Our-Lady Workefhoppe. @ --*"AE@;!*
"6. And bye the border of Ephraim, from the east fide even untoe the west fide, a potion for Reuben."
3) "'I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation.'
"'I had weasels instead,' said [Name A] shortly.
"'Good God,' said [Name B], looking at her. 'That explains a lot.'"
4) "My father despaired of me; my sister wondered at me. But my despair was greater if I caged my wonder, like a wild bird."
5) "With her last conscious strength, she cupped her hands and immediately felt the warmth between the palms, as if she held a small sun; and then the heat surged up her arms and into her body, reaching into every niche and cranny, till it had reshaped her flesh into her own precise, familiar, individual contours, and she was neither water nor ice nor unmaking but again herself."
6) "He opened the candy then popped it into his mouth. He and [Name] crunched away in unison. The two of them ate the entire bag thus, chatting sporadically, to no particular end, as they sucked and crunched and moved the hard, aromatic candy with their tongues, clicked it on their teeth."
7) "She had always somehow, in her secret heart, never thought of him except in a world of knights and ladies, the sort of world that one read about in the old romances, where hermits knelt praying among the gray rocks and champions rode out to slay dragons from high turreted castles -- not the sort of castles that could ever go to ruin because the scrub had not been cleaned out of the water meadows and there was no money for the ditching and the drainage."
8) "'Now I'm going to do a most unladylike and inexcusable thing," she said, as she pulled her green velvet hat out of its box. 'I'm going to kick this hat about the room until it is without form and void; and I shall never as long as I live wear anything of that shade of green again.'"
9) "[He] drove even more heroically on the way back. [She] could not blame him. He had a lot on his mind. But some of his maneuvers did bring a slight taste of green milkshake to the back of her throat, and sometimes she could not prevent herself saying things like 'Aren't you supposed to drive on the other side of the road?' or 'I think that driver was hooting at us.' And after he had dropped her outside her house, she did wonder if he would reach London without getting wrapped round a tree on the way."
10) "She was seventeen that spring, not yet accustomed to men calling her beautiful. A pretty child she had been, but adolescence had found her long-limbed and coltish, prone to skinned knees and bruises from rough play in the gardens at [place] -- activities ultimately deemed unfitting for a Princess of the realm."
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Thu, Sep. 30th, 2004 01:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Thu, Sep. 30th, 2004 09:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Thu, Sep. 30th, 2004 04:38 am (UTC)2. Good Omens
3. Pawn in Frankincense
5. The Tower at Stony Wood
8. Rilla of Ingleside
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Thu, Sep. 30th, 2004 07:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Thu, Sep. 30th, 2004 07:07 am (UTC)2. Good Omens
5. Crap. Something by McKinley in one of the Beauty books?
7. Perilous Gard?
8. Hmm. Possibly Jane in A College of Magics. There was *something* about a hat in there.
9. Fire and Hemlock.
10. WAH! I know this one! But I can't remember it right now. Possibly McKinley's Spindle's End, but I don't think it's that.
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Thu, Sep. 30th, 2004 07:37 am (UTC)Guesses
Thu, Sep. 30th, 2004 07:59 am (UTC)7. I Capture the Castle
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Mon, Oct. 11th, 2004 11:09 am (UTC)1. Freedom and Necessity by Brust & Bull
Kitty writing Susan about Richard looking for Thomas.
2. Good Omens by Gaiman & Pratchett
One of the very rare bibles the angel collects.
3. I should know this. It could be Lymond & Philipa, but I think it's one of the many modern descendants.
I should know 5.
7. The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Pope
9. Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
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Mon, Oct. 11th, 2004 09:04 pm (UTC)Here's the link to the answers if you want.