page 123

Tuesday, 26 February 2008 — azahar
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Aaarr, I be tagged by th’ saucy wench alejna , begad!

  1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages)
  2. Open the book to page 123
  3. Find the 5th sentence
  4. Post the next three sentences
  5. Tag 5 people

The nearest book is here on my bedside table – The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies, which I am presently rereading. I happen to be on page 124 at the moment so I just read this bit last night before falling asleep with the lamp on and the book in my hands. Okay here goes. . .

‘Poshrat!‘ she screamed again, and spat in my face. This was a scene we had played many times in our life together, my Mother and I, and I knew better than to try to wipe away the spittle. It was something that had to be endured, and in the end it would probably work out as I wished.

The Rebel Angels is book one of The Cornish Trilogy . An excellent read.

And now, at the risk of alejna making me walk th’ plank aaarr, rather than tagging 5 people I’ll make this a self-tagging ‘me-me’.

Let us know what’s on your page 123! f_bigeyes.gif

 

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15 Responses to “page 123”

  1. noggin Says:
    Tuesday, 26 February 2008 at 8:54 am

    When, later, Mrs Barton Trafford saw the picture she said it reminded her of a sacrificial heifer.
    Edward Driffield worked at night, and Rosie, having nothing to do, was glad to go out with one or other of her friends. She liked luxury and Quentin Forde was well-to-do.

    From Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham.

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  2. tobymarx Says:
    Tuesday, 26 February 2008 at 9:12 am

    This tradition will be examined here through a text supposedly composed by Ahmad Bin Abubekr Bin Wahshih in the year 225 of the Hegira (around 840 AD). It is one fo the few such texts which exists in published and translated form, though there are mentions of other such works in secondary literature, such as the Book of Frenzied Devotee to Learn About the Ancient Scripts by Abu Bakir Ahmad (composed around 855 AD) and The Book of Secret Alhpabets by Abu Abd Al-Kahlil written a century earlier. Mystical alphabets and codes, some of which had magical connotations, became a sophisticated are among Arabs in the Middle Ages and were connected with alchemy and religious practices.

    (from The Alphabetic Labyrinth by Johanna Drucker © 1995, Thames & Hudson Ltd, London)

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  3. daisyfae Says:
    Tuesday, 26 February 2008 at 1:08 pm

    first glance up from the laptop found “The Santaland Diaries” – a script by David Sedaris. Alas, only 54 pages, so i grabbed the nearest work by Sedaris:

    ‘Maybe,’ Hugh says, ‘they’re inside your tower of meat.’

    “This is what we have been reduced to. Hugh blows the yucca pollen off his blackened shrimp while I push back at the sleeves of my borowed sport coat and search the meat tower for my promised potatoes.

    (from Me Talk Pretty One Day)

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  4. cj Says:
    Tuesday, 26 February 2008 at 3:05 pm

    Ok–so we are all one, and divinity abides within us all equally. No problem. Understood. But now try living from that place. Try putting that understanding into practice twenty-four hours a day.

    ~ Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

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  5. Fanny Says:
    Tuesday, 26 February 2008 at 5:16 pm

    Palpation shows extreme abdominal tenderness and board-like rigidity of the abdominal muscles.

    Symptoms and signs in clinical medicine:- Colin Ogilvie

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  6. Arnold Says:
    Tuesday, 26 February 2008 at 7:20 pm

    Moreover, in such studies, as with many semiconductor studies, the interpretation of BE shifts is also complicated, if not dominated by final state effects. A detailed discussion of these problems is well beyond the scope of this chapter. Fortunately, a major review of core level BE shifts which deals with all these aspects, as well as the available theoretical models for interpreting experimental data, has appeared recently.

    Practical Surface Analysis
    Second Edition
    Volume 1 – Auger and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
    edited Briggs and Seah

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  7. Jenny Says:
    Tuesday, 26 February 2008 at 11:52 pm

    Coke, in particular, has become a minor idol which promises freedom, money and escape to bigtime individualism in the West.
    Clearly we are not talking about soft drinks. We are dealing here with what people want to believe about themselves.

    (Raulston Saul 1993) (page 124 because there weren’t any sentences on 123)

    First Canadian Edition
    Sociology
    A Brief Introduction
    Shaefer, Floyd, Haaland

    By the way … what does “Poshrat” mean? I’m thinking something close to the “f” word?

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  8. azahar Says:
    Wednesday, 27 February 2008 at 12:00 am

    Apparently it means half-breed in Romanian.

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  9. daisyfae Says:
    Wednesday, 27 February 2008 at 3:06 am

    arnold? did i read that right? there is someone else hanging out at casa az who knows band edge shifts in semiconductors?!?!? damn. small world… haven’t done Auger or XPS in years, but we’ve got a team of really smart folks who do it for us… whoa.

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  10. Page 123 « Lori’s Book Nook Says:
    Wednesday, 27 February 2008 at 5:51 am

    [...] Lifted from the rather literate casa az, who happened to have a copy of the fabulous Mr. Davies on her bedside table. (Go and read the [...]

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  11. azahar Says:
    Wednesday, 27 February 2008 at 10:51 am

    Yep, it’s rather a diverse bunch here at casa az, daisy.

    Um… meat tower?

    Oh, and Fanny, you’re a couple of sentences short in yours.

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  12. Fanny Says:
    Wednesday, 27 February 2008 at 12:16 pm

    Yeah sorry, I misread. here we go again.

    Palpation shows extreme abdominal tenderness and board-like rigidity of the abdominal muscles. The tenderness is often accompanied by hyperaesthesia of the skin. ‘Rebound tenderness’, a characteristic sign of acute peritonitis, can beelicited by gentle pressure on the abdominal wall followed by sudden withdrawl of the palpating hand.

    Symptoms and signs in clinical medicine: Colin Ogilvie.

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  13. Arnold Says:
    Wednesday, 27 February 2008 at 10:09 pm

    You did indeed daisyfae, you did indeed. Got a stack of (well, 2) books on XPS and auger on my desk. Speaking of band edge shifts, I just read a paper on modeling Schottky contacts of nanomaterial semiconductors !!!

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  14. woodpigeon Says:
    Thursday, 28 February 2008 at 1:06 am

    Among them are the life-and-death issues related to research into human stem cells. The subordination of the best scientific evidence into ideologically driven beliefs is yet another strategy for controlling policy by distorting and supressing the best available information.

    As the poet Thomas Moore wrote in the early nineteenth century, “But Faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.”

    The Assault on Reason, Al Gore

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  15. daisyfae Says:
    Thursday, 28 February 2008 at 4:18 am

    arnold – oh my. our professional orbitals probably overlap… casa az is indeed an eclectic place! too cool!

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