The Pan-Literature Game

[black bart]

and it came to pass that Iluvatar called together all the Ainur and declared to them a mighty theme,

Page 78 sentence 30

[Scott the Pirate]

"Further, the FBI's eventual examination of all of Oswalds clothing show not a single laundry or dry cleaning mark."

Page 100, sentence 6.

[gronank]

"We then argued that, because identical fermions must have total antisymmetric wave functions and because the lowest state is expected to be a spatially symmetric l=0 state, the di-proton and di-neutron systems must have antisymmetric, or singlet, spin states which are unbound."

page 45 sentence 5

[DirtMagurt]

And so several nights a week, with ever-faithful Sergeant Doakes in my rearview mirror, I would stop over at Rita's house after work, play with Cody and Astor, and sit with Rita after the kids were in bed.

Full disclosure: all of my books are the same distance away from me in a bookshelf, lol, so I just grabbed a random one!


Page 7 sentence 15

[TwistedSister]

crap the only thing handy right now is a dictionary.........I pass.

[DirtMagurt]

you need to move the bookshelf closer, lol!

[DavidH]

In the Middle Ages cardinals and bishops were not only leaders within the church, they were closely involved in the affairs of state: many had been statesmen themselves and had obtained their positions by royal favour.

St Thomas of Hereford was on the sofa by my side, I'm reading it at the moment.

Page 47, sentence 4.

[gronank]

For a continuous random variable, the role of the frequency function is taken by a denstity function, f(x), which has the properties that f(x)>=0, f is piecewise continuous, and .

page 23, sentence 7

[daftbeaker]

One further complication of magnetic measurements at extremely low temperatures may be mentioned.

Page 53, sentence 1.

[gronank]

Sambandet (2.28) uttrycker matematiskt ett antal viktiga principer som gäller för system som kan beskrivas på denna form.

A translation might be in order:

The relation (2.28) expresses mathematically a number of important principles concerning systems that can be described on this form.

page 23 sentence 8

(I really want to hear what that complication is)

[black bart]

God it's hot...rum all out...crew mutinous... (page 23 sentence 8 from Black Bart's Log)

Page 45, sentence 12

[TwistedSister]

With the drooping-lidded blue eyes and the spoiled, corrupted baby's face and the bubblegumpink underlip and the butter-yellow crew cut and the fastest '48 Mercury in the South.

(of course, on of the longest sentences in the whole book)

pg. 101 sentence 4

[pieces o'nine]

"So you've heard of the group?"


page 115, sentence 12

[DirtMagurt]

They developed their abilities to be who they weren't to a fine art and described it in a song: "Got one mind for the boss to see; Got another mind for what I know is me."

Page 74, sentence 12

[black bart]

With a cry of "Gondor for Ever" Arrowroot drew forth his sword and deftly used it as a letter opener...

Page 260, sentence 2