Grab closest book to you, turn to page 50, and post the first full sentence on the page.

fuzzybunn · 1 year

The cellar!

- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

GreenRyan · 1 year

"Chewie sat watching him, apparently very interested, while Leia napped in the bedroom."

Shadows of the Empire - Steve Perry

jasonlotito · 1 year

"There we are." - Linux Server Hacks, Rob Flickenger

grettir_net · 1 year

64,900 ISK EKTORP couch -Fabric: 100% cotton. Now in flat packaging.

The IKEA catalog 2011 by Svenska Forsaljnings AB

danielsmw · 1 year

It is an easy matter to generalize the delta function to three dimensions:

δ^3(r) = δ(x)δ(y)δ(z).

Introduction to Electrodynamics, Third Edition (Griffiths)

StochasticOoze · 1 year

"Oh, I know what some of you are thinking."

from Dave Barry Is From Mars and Venus

...yeah, that was pretty boring. Let's try the second-closest book.

"But before she could thank him for the visit, he placed his hat over his heart, tremulous and dignified, and the abscess that had sustained his life finally burst."

from Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Ah, much better.

Noexit · 1 year

"In this sense, time is another dimension." - The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene

1 year

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hisgravenimage · 1 year

"Don't be afraid. The are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning."

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

zsoltika · 1 year

If there is no expr, the exit status is zero.

Aho, Kernighan, Weinberger: The AWK Programming Language.

haesuse · 1 year

Arthur agreed this was very sad. He did this with a small feeble gesture, because he was too asphyxiated to speak.

Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

GodLike1001 · 1 year

"Racial prejudice is a terrible thing, Yossarian. It really is. It's a terrible thing to treat a decent, loyal Indian like a nigger, kike, wop or spic."

(Chief White Halfoat to Yossarian...btw, I know its not one sentence, I dont care)

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

lostinspac3 · 1 year

"Suddenly the time for advanced warning was over. The facts were out; it was now a question of who would believe them."

World War Z by Max Brooks

I know I am a little late to the party with this book, but damn is it a fun read.

SickBoy88 · 1 year

-Fuck off back tae yir ain country.

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh.

Offish · 1 year

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uhclem · 1 year

"Coming to the place where the door stood, he endeavoured, but in vain, to get in, and cast his eyes all around, without uttering one syllable: but, after he had spent some time in this kind of examination, he enquired of his housekeeper whereabouts he might find his library"

Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes

frank62609 · 1 year

"Now, when I raise my hand," said Dean, "we'll stop talking, we'll both understand purely and without any hassle that we are simply stopping talking, and we'll just sleep"

Jack Kerouac "On the Road"

micah1_8 · 1 year

"How can you presume to do such deeds?" the monk asked suddenly, pointing solemnly and significantly at Lise. He was referring to her "healing."

--The Brothers Karamazov by Fyoder Dostoevsky 0078214181

[deleted] · 1 year

trolls had just decided to roast the dwarves now and eat them later - that was Bert's idea, and after a lot of argument they had agreed to it.

The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien

Aksalon · 1 year

"Interestingly, Hirsh-Pasek and Golinkoff report (p. 308) that the infants exhibited a statistically significant preference for the screen that depicted the woman kissing the keys."

Syntactic Development, William O'Grady.

mr_root · 1 year

It's a blank page.....

Go for Beginners by Kaoru Iwamoto

Resistcircles · 1 year

Arthur agreed this was very sad.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

mscottmoore · 1 year

"Am I wrong?" I tried to ignore him. "I didn't think so," he murmured smugly.

Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

I know I'm getting downvoted like crazy, but you did say closest, and my garbage can is closer to my desk than my book shelf.

colsy · 1 year

My words might have finally reached her, taken their time to be understood, and obliterated whatever energy it was that had kept her talking so long.

Norwegian Wood -Haruki Murakami

tfortunato · 1 year

The time required for an active transistor to remove the base minority charge, Qb, is given by

ta = Qb/Ibr = tau(b)*Ic/Ibr = 0.2nS

this is approximately 100 times shorter than the time for removing the base saturation charge!

Analog Integrated Circuit Design by Johns + Martin

I don't know why, but I love the exclamation point at the end. They just seem so pumped about electronics.

dementiaxiii · 1 year

"When he caught sight of Lord Henry, a faint blush coloured his cheeks for a moment, and he started up."
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde... From my Complete Works of Oscar Wilde.

fakaff · 1 year

"I will refuse him," Ned said as he turned back to her.

George R.R Martin: A Game of Thrones.

packetinspector · 1 year

Disliken as he was to druriodrama, her wife Langley, the prophet, and the decentest dozendest short of a frusker whoever stuck his spickle through his spoke, disappeared, (in which toodooing he has taken all the French leaves unveilable out of Calomnequiller's Pravities) from the sourface of this earth, that austral plain he had transmaried himself to, so entirely spoorlessly (the mother of the book with a dustwhisk tabularasing his obliteration done upon her involucrum) as to tickle the speculative to all but opine (since the Levey who might have been Langley may have really been a redivivus of paganinism or a volunteer Vousden) that the hobo (who possessed a large amount of the humoresque) had transtuled his funster's latitat to its finsterest interrimost.

Finnegans Wake, James Joyce

(Got it down from the bookshelf yesterday to post a quote to another forum.)

rob79 · 1 year

"He had just been elected president, and it was necessary that he speak."

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

I've been reading this book for 15 years, it's falling apart. I finish it (only takes 3-4 hours to read), leave it alone for a couple of months, and then read it again. I miss you Mr. Vonnegut :(

woodandiron · 1 year

Pete was late.

The Cold Six-Thousand by James Ellroy

[deleted] · 1 year

"The man was pulling him back through a door."

Douglas Adams The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

dulcetone · 1 year

"I was always the outsider, though, the uninvited guest."

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

spikey666 · 1 year

Of Herbert West, who was my friend in college and in after life, I can speak only with extreme terror.

The opening line of Herbert West- Reanimator. From the collection- The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories. By H.P. Lovecraft.

SolomonKull · 1 year

"This is one way of moving an object left or right along the screen."

Mastering Your Timex Sinclair 1000/1500 Personal Computer, 1983

hashi_lebwohl · 1 year

"This page left intentionally blank" Python Phrasebook, Brad Dayley

lacouronnefr · 1 year

"I agree. You want me. I'm expensive. So pay up or go without." Killer Butterfly...James R. Vance

xgp15a-ii · 1 year

"I wish, then, to make a hypothesis before telling you what will happen about the inscribing of it in the circle, whether that be possible or not." --Signet Classics, Great Dialogues of Plato

talashira · 1 year

He got up again and began moving -- turning, stooping, swinging around, not quite dancing, but almost.

Tamsin - Peter S. Beagle

Corund · 1 year

"The twenty-first century has been a time of terror, and it is easy to imagine that in this it is different from the one that has just ended." Black Mass, Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray

sadeness · 1 year

The form of the wave equation of a physical system is determined by its Hamiltonian, which is therefore of fundamental significance in the whole mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics.

Landau and Lifshitz - Course of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 3 - Quantum Mechanics - Non relativistic Theory

irrelevancy · 1 year

The aged Inachus plucked some grasses, and held them out to her. She licked his hand, kissing her father's palms, and could not restrain her tears.

Two sentences because it makes it much more interesting.

The Metamorphoses by Ovid

the_mgt · 1 year

She had been spiteful, if you please, at the age of one, when she used to throw her toys out of her crib so that her poor mother should keep picking them up, the villainous infant!
Lolita, Nabokov

TopRamen713 · 1 year

I'm afraid I was rather harsh with Locke.

Shadow of the Hegemon- OSC

(For the future, I think it would be more fun if we didn't id the title/author, and others tried to guess)

pragmatick · 1 year

We'll get back to laughing at quacks in a minute, but right now you are learning about one of the most important ideas of modern intellectual history.

Bad science by Ben Goldacre

anisland · 1 year

He enjoys hanging out on sexual organs and swimming in "sexual fluids."

no joke.

EDIT (forgot the title/author): Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple by Mark Gladwin, M.D. and Bill Trattler, M.D.

notdeadzombie · 1 year

"Blomkvist is a public person with few secrets and not much to hide." Stieg Larsson, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

rook24v · 1 year

Now when a country dandy like this takes it into his head to make a distinguished reputation, and joins the great whale-fishery, you should see the comical things he does upon reaching the seaport.

-Herman Melville, Moby Dick

(reading it for the first time, loving it so far)

z0id · 1 year

Puis elle se sauve, noir sure le pavé rose, et disparaît dans une lézarde du mur.

Jean-Paul Sartre, La Nausée

MidnightRider77 · 1 year

"For you I would throw over anybody, Duchess," said Lord Henry with a bow.

The picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde (Franklin Mystery Edition)

P-Nuts · 1 year

"Deep-seated quantum-mechanical considerations, indeed, show that a stationary-state distribution must be symmetric relative to any plane through its center of mass." Nuclear Physics, Alex E. S. Green (1955).

a_dag · 1 year

Captain Sol raised his fist skyward, a ham at heart.

Fragment by Warren Fahy

aganice · 1 year

I struggled, I tell you, to make myself feel like none of what had happened meant anything to me, but Rosendo's turning tail, that stranger's insufferable bullying - it wouldn't let me alone.

Borges' Collected Fictions

[deleted] · 1 year

In no way were they free.

PKD The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

[deleted] · 1 year

"Breichbras was mistaken for the French words Brief-bras, and a very romantic story was concocted to explain how Caradoc acquired a short arm."

Arthurian Tradition and Chrétien de Troyes, by Roger Sherman Loomis

kulgan · 1 year

Lisa frowned.

Book - Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse Story - The People of Sand and Slag Author - Paulo Bacigalupi

reddetter · 1 year

She arranged to meet a man at two o'clock on a weekday afternoon at > a hotel, in the southwest corner of its parking lot.

Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Kalima · 1 year

"What then remains to be valued?"

Essential Marcus Aurelius

by...Marcus Aurelius

pastr · 1 year

And she would not believe the things I tell her, and I would show her the number on my arm, and then she would believe.

Primo Levi - If this is a man. - The Truce

mancheese · 1 year

"In Dwayne's part of the planet, anybody who wanted one could get one down at his local hardware store."

(referring to a gun)

-Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

BlackestNight21 · 1 year

The secret door that Ser Osmund had spoken of gaped open behind the ashes, no bigger than an oven. A man would need to crawl. But Tyrion is only half a man.

A Feast For Crows, George R.R. Martin

MrLeo · 1 year

"Describing the characteristics of places, objects, and time, using ~は~が"

なかま　２, Japanese textbook.

A_BIG_SCARY_EMU · 1 year

"I want to have slaves, do you hear, Severin?"

Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

nickiter · 1 year

"Suddenly the time for advanced warning was over."

World War Z, Max Brooks

Edit: Now that I've read that sentence out of context, I'm troubled by the grammar and word choice errors...

CayennePowder · 1 year

Some people are too lazy to write whole novels, and so they devote their time to short fiction or books of lists.

John Hodgman: The Areas of my Expertise

stitch87 · 1 year

At the moment I'm having a bit of trouble translating what is on page 50. Here and here are some quick pictures I took of the page.

The Red Book - Carl Jung

EDIT - Ok, since I have nothing else to be doing at the moment I managed to work out my translation of the text (which was shocking) and then find a professional's translation (which is definitely not shocking).

Christmas has come. The God is in the egg.

I have prepared for my God, an expensive red rug from the land of morning.

He shall be surrounded by the shimmer of magnificence of his Eastern land.

I am the mother, the simple maiden, who gave birth and did not know how.

I am the careful father, who protected the maiden.

I am the shepherd, who received the message as he guarded his herd at night on the dark fields.

I know it's more that one sentence but the book is so magnificent and epic that I felt the entire page's translation should be offered.

The sad thing is that I've come too late to this thread and so almost nobody will see this.

EdtheHammer · 1 year

It doesn't seem to me that earth can hold a dream like that!

-the best of H. P. Lovecraft:Bloodcurdling tales of horror and the macabre

Devoidarex · 1 year

"I'm really starving, though," the gunslinger said with perfect truthfulness. - The Drawing of the Three - The Dark Tower II, Stephen King

archer13 · 1 year

"You respond to a call from the family of a 45 year old man who has lung cancer and is turning blue ans gasping for breath."

From "EMT- Prehospital Care" by Mark C. Henry & Edward R. Stapleton.

KR4T0S · 1 year

For a moment the wizard stood looking at the fire; then he stooped and removed the ring to the hearth with the tongs, and at once picked it up. Frodo gasped. - Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring(I hate lending this book to people glad I finally got it back)

NobodyKnowsImaDog · 1 year

This Phone Book in whole or in part, may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system of any kind or transmitted in any form or by means whether electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming or otherwise.

jay_vee · 1 year

'I'm taking Fleur on a Thestral,' said Bill 'She's not that fond of brooms.'

I don't think I need to identify this. I can't even remember why I have this book out on my kitchen worktop. There was some quote I was digging for to mention on reddit.

Darbus · 1 year

Ambiguities in the order of fragments remain on chromosomes XI (involving 4 SfiI fragments) and XV (involving 3 SfiI fragments)....Guide to Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology (1991).

juicyred · 1 year

In the week leading up to the holidays, after the Bernsteins gave her her last payment for the month in advance and then left for the States to spend time with their relatives, she built up her courage and decided that she would buy a piece. (Soucouyant by David Chariandy)

only2thumbs · 1 year

"The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness."

-Bouquet of Thoughts, Swami Vivekananda

ehsteve23 · 1 year

We have to stand for a few minutes in the doorway of the train while the cameras gobble up our images, then we're allowed inside and the doors close mercifully behind us.

Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
I'm re-reading the first 2 before i read Mockingjay.

Mitth_raw_nuruodo · 1 year

"A coarse mind such as yours would be irretrievably damaged if it tried to encompass the subtleties of the endorcism."

-[The Time Traveler] Magic, Isaac Asimov

[deleted] · 1 year

And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and it shall be, when you go, that you shall not go empty-handed, but every woman shall ask of her neighbor, namely, of her who dwells near her house, articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing; and you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters. So you shall plunder the Egyptians.

b33j0r · 1 year

At 10 GHz, for example, the wavelength is \lambda = 3 cm in air but only on the order of 1 cm in a semiconductor material.

Ulaby et. al., Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics

Which I'm supposed to be reading, but I'm on reddit instead.

bclainhart · 1 year

"The next morning he was up at seven and did four hundred crunches." - The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen

thepizzlefry · 1 year

"Was she really a work of art or was she just a hodgepodge of bronze and cement thrown together by some confused soul working hard to appear tortured?"

fr0zenyepthatone · 1 year

"At first the trails of bubbles were random -- like an artist's preliminary brushstrokes -- but then they became more structured and deliberate, Sleek's head jerking animatedly as if the creature was in the throws of electrocution." Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds

sondie9 · 1 year

"The role of statutory law in legal research is often underemphasized, perhaps due to the focus on appellate decisions in American legal education, and on cases in the popular conception of the lawyer's work."

Principles of Legal Research - Kent C. Olson

rttrdm · 1 year

After a week in our new home a black-and-white Welcome Wagon pulled up in front of the house to help the newcomers settle into the neighborhood.

Paul Beatty - The White Boy Shuffle

a_cup_of_juice · 1 year

The question is then whether technical progress actually "gets anywhere" in the sense of increasing the delight and happiness of life.

Alan Watts, The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

terevos2 · 1 year

Thomas took this distinction of essence and existence and raised it to a metaphysical status.

Reasons for Faith by K. Scott Oliphint

ajehals · 1 year

(4) A Qualification shall be regarded as material unless the auditors state in their report that the matter giving rise to the qualification are not material or the purpose of determining (by reference to the company's balance sheet)whether at the balance sheet date the amount of the company's net assets was not less than the aggregate of its called up share capital in usdistributable reserves.

Butterworths Company Law Handbook...

[deleted] · 1 year

So 140° and -580° are coterminal.

Mark Dugopolski/Trigonometry

Redorb · 1 year

"Jonah enters, and would lock the door, but the lock contains no key."

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

tripping · 1 year

"Today, although these names are still bywords for evil, they don't necessarily provoke the same degree of visceral loathing; imagine, for a modern-day comparison, sardonic squibs about the frustrated teenage dreams of the 9/11 attackers."

Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah (Biography)

By Tim Footman

Damietta · 1 year

"The tiles themselves looked almost indestructible, being composed of an iron-hard slate that had defied the passage of time." The Alchemaster's Apprentice, by Walter Moers

FoffT · 1 year

Will it ultimately reach the clear surface of my consciousness, this memory, this old, dead moment which the magnetism of an identical moment has traveled so far to importune, to disturb, to raise up out of the very depths of my being?

Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past (or In Search of Lost Time)

avolc · 1 year

Jonesy almost shot the guy when he came out of the woods.

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King. (It's the first sentence from page 51; page 50 is an intentionally blank page.)

Aratsu · 1 year

"Tangents to bluffs and hills are frequently good for bearings, but as with their use in ranges, the lines must be drawn carefully by matching charted elevation contours with what was actually sighted (see fig. 6-9)"

Inland and Coastal Navigation by David Burch

Leftie247 · 1 year

"Where are we getting the boat?" Sturm asked suspiciously.

Dragons of Autumn Twilight

Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

[deleted] · 1 year

"The man who began the demolition of the geocentric model and the revolution in astronomical ideas that continues to this day was a Polish physician and lawyer by the name of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)."

Introduction to Astronomy textbook. I'm doing homework :)

Roberteebertson · 1 year

Science has brought many of us to that state in which Nathaniel Hawthorne found Herman Melville: "He can neither believe, nor be comfortable in his unbelief."

Pale blue dot, Carl Sagan

[deleted] · 1 year

"Or, viewed another way, every atom in the universe that contains 7 protons is correctly named "nitrogen"

-Chang, chemistry, 8th edition-

This game sucks or my life sucks. The closest 10 books to me are the merck index, 2 general chemistry books, 1 organic chemistry book, the ACS style guide, a book of common biochemical equations, the physicians desk reference, a microbiology book, and then finally on my bookshelf theres asimov's Foundations edge, then steve altons terrigood cult classic "Meg".

deadowl · 1 year

Skipping the preface and the italicized text before the actual content:

We call ourselves Homo sapiens--man the wise--because our mental capacities are so important to us.

Russell/Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 2nd edition

deeplyembedded · 1 year

"The bedbug, even when dignified by its Latin name of Cimex lectularius, is a loathsome creature."

-- from The Malaria Capers, by Robert Desowitz

FacelessBureaucrat · 1 year

"Initially, his successors could be drawn from the Prophet's contemporaries, but with time, this was no longer possible." - The 9/11 Commission Report

zoink001100 · 1 year

Insightful. The word is a suspicious overstatement for "perceptive."

heartlessgamer · 1 year

Kaladin turned away, looking out at the endless hills and their shifting moving grasses.

From The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

dcousineau · 1 year

"Figure 2.9: GUIFactory class hierarchy"

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides.

The page is 2 big object diagrams. Can anyone else tell that I'm at work right now?

afshin · 1 year

The Selectors API is supported natively in browsers as of these versions: Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.5, Safari 3.1, Chrome 1, and Opera 10.

High Performance JavaScript, Nicholas C. Zakas

caust1c · 1 year

When Atticus went inside the house to retrieve a file he had forgotten to take to work that morning, Jem finally realized that he had been done in by the oldest lawyer's trick on record.

vivalagonzo · 1 year

Years of freedom only to wake up in your treacherous embrace.

Solipsist
-Henry Rollins

mpeppers · 1 year

var newNum = Math.floor(Math.random() * 75) + 1;

JavaScript & AJAX Sixth Edition - Tom Negrino & Dori Smith

hamiltenor · 1 year

Dr. Landry deposits $6,000 in a bank account in the name of Family Health Care, P.C., in return for shares of stock in the corporation.

Survey of Accounting, Carl S. Warren

damn intro to accounting courses required for my cs major...

Malicte · 1 year

Kaladin turned away, looking out at the endless hills and their shifting, moving grasses.

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

ozymand1as · 1 year

Writing this statement will enable you to see where you are heading and to remain on a productive path as you plan and write.

Gee, thanks, Joseph Gibaldi, author of The MLA HAndbook for Writers of Research Papers Sixth Edition! I totally know where I'm heading and will become productive now!

flatspoon · 1 year

"Systems receive inputs of energy, matter, or information; process these inputs; and produce outputs."

Essential Environment - Jay Withgott and Scott Brennan

This was not fun.

Reeve · 1 year

How the father and daughter laughed as they trudged home together after the evening party (it was on the occasion of the speeches, when all the professors were invited) and how Miss Pinkerton would have raged had she seen the caricature of herself which the little mimic, Rebecca, managed to make out of her doll.

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

hobbitlover · 1 year

She paused to read silently.

Who is Bugs Putter by Gordan Korman.

thutch · 1 year

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

TIR I had a communist manifesto randomly sitting by my computer.

impotent_rage · 1 year

"Of course you can go!" I said.

Damn, that wasn't very exciting at all.

plakugolder · 1 year

"It was a long way from the friendly joking they had together in the afternoon." -For Whom the Bell Tolls

i3endy · 1 year

"Don't move ," I shouted. "You'll come around!"
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

HungLikeJesus · 1 year

To an outsider, Jean-Bedel Bokassa seemed to have everything: a huge fortune and immense power, so many decorations that he needed a specially made jacket to display them all, and a fine family numbering nine wives and thirty legitimate children.

-David Lamb, The Africans

isaaclaughter · 1 year

Moneo returned to a point of view below Leto, holding the disabled lasgun casually in his right hand.

SpriteLite · 1 year

"5. Orange: Scientific Achievement. At this wave, the self "escapes" from the "herd mentality" of blue, and seeks truth and meaning in individualistic terms--hypothetico-deductive, experimental, objective, mechanistic, operational--"scientific" in the typical sense.

Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy by Ken Wilber

kbomb · 1 year

"1. Blowtorch. A tool used for caramelizing and controlled browning of various pastry items and for the sugar topping of creme brulee."

-Professional Baking: Le Cordon Bleu by Wayne Gisslen

[deleted] · 1 year

"What do you want?" Jackie Sebago bleated.

Carl Hiaasen - Star Island

Blnd2Spll · 1 year

Therefore, what for the idea manifests itself as plant life, as mere vegetation, as blind energy and growth, we shall claim, in accordance with its inner nature, for will, and recognize it as just the same as constitutes the basis of our own phenomenal being, as it expresses itself in our own actions, and even in the whole existence of our body itself, too.

The World as Will and Idea, Book II, by Arthur Schopenhauer

ImExistingDontKillMe · 1 year

"In sum, feelings are an essential component of the person (e.g., Carver, Sutton, & Scheier, 2000; Larsen, 2000)."

Social Psychology Unraveling the Mystery, Second Ed. Kenrick, Neuberg, Cialdini.

dosFool · 1 year

Listen. Achilles never wanted to die.

(Achilles - Elizabeth Cook) close enough to one sentence

p.s can we do one of these a week?

teriaki · 1 year

Noticing that Countess Nordston wanted to say something, he stopped short without finishing what he had begun, and listened attentively to her. -Anna Karenina, Tolstoy (just happened to be reading it today!)

waterrapture · 1 year

"'Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.'" -Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

ryan1234567890 · 1 year

The resolution of this dilemma can be observed in the fact that for PB MCT does not correctly predict the temperature dependence of the alpha time scale in the vicinity of Tc

mringham · 1 year

"Your money is useless to me." Reliquary, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

ariellecyan · 1 year

"We shall go to war" he said. -Plato's republic. turned out to be more epic than i expected!

something_suitable · 1 year

It's also not impossible that Bernadette Longley knows, actually; and of course the unpleasant K. Freer always has suspicions of all kinds. (Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace)

AbsoluteTruth · 1 year

Axiom 186:

Areas of plus or minus randomity become increased in activity when perceptions of similarity are introduced to them.

Scientology 0-8: The Book Of Basics, by L. Ron Hubbard.

Don't hate, I use it to hold my incense upright so it burns longer.

DismantletheSun · 1 year

"The groans of the creaking doors, the sighing of trees bent by the storm, and the whistle of the wind would sound to the villagers like the curses of long-dead sinners, tormented by the uncertainty of limbo or slowly roasting in the never-ending fires of hell."

-Jerzy Kosinski "The Painted Bird"

dustinbrewer · 1 year

There, confined to the captain's cabin, they found a tall and strikingly handsome Tahitian man, who was soon to become known in England as 'Mai' or 'Omai'.

The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes

pocketasian · 1 year

"Down here on the benches, there was no one to stop Jon drinking as much as he had a thirst for." A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin (My boyfriend is reading it because I couldn't stop talking about it)

Tomble · 1 year

"Yellow spots produced by the spilling of the acid may be found about the hands and neck."

Taylor's Medical Jurisprudence, 1861.

Section : Nitric Acid - Appearances after death

garrotte · 1 year

Eunice's bizzare twist on her religion gave her a plausible excuse for her constant abuse of us children.
-Alloma Gilbert, Deliver me from Evil

winjama · 1 year

'It would not surprise me if she has taken to putting gin in her tea,' he said, 'and to the use of snuff.' Stephen Maturin The Commodore by Patrick O'Brian

acquiesce · 1 year

Virginia's governor, Sir William Berkeley, wanted good relations with Native Americans on the frontier in order to protect his fur trade with them.

Holt: American Anthem (textbook for my US HS history class I teach)

r89w · 1 year

J'avais froid, j'étais seul, et je crois que j'ai pleuré.

-Jacques Godbout, Salut Galarneau

Spacepenguin · 1 year

"Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily, with a soft undulating movement at the knees and hips." - Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

returnsomevideotapes · 1 year

Space was still there; but it had lost its predominance.

-The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley

The book didn't have 50 pages so I just opened up the book and read off that page instead

CaptainKing · 1 year

"Sperm are produced in the two testes which are contained within the scrotum."- Reader's Digest Family Medical Adviser.

I learned something today. Hurrah!

salpara · 1 year

Shacking up brought out Old Rawhide's most enduring and durable qualities, and, unlike marriage, could be counted on to last all winter.

A River Runs Through It - Norman Maclean

(I wish I had gotten to this sooner!)

renwins · 1 year

"To me, it's more stirring that the bravest battle cry, more glorious than the loftiest operatic aria, more profound than the most silvery outpouring of oratory."

-Tom Robbins, Wild Ducks Flying Backward

scootertrash · 1 year

There has been no gentleness in your method, obviously no affection whatever, not a trace of friendship. Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima

8LBORECKXL · 1 year

A formal proof is possible by induction on the degree of f.

Calculus, Michael Spivak

briguyd · 1 year

Page 50 of Bone volume 1 has no words. Damn.

wintersolstice · 1 year

jQuery lets you select elements that have been selected by the user.

This is from Visual QuickStart Guide: jQuery by Steven Holzner.

Closest book not actually on my phone :)

Squamben15 · 1 year

"Having described the scientific method, we would like to briefly dispel certain myths that have developed about science" -Principles of Comparative Politics

God help me.

daibutsu · 1 year

Mr. Utterson had been some minutes at his post, when he was aware of an odd, light footstep drawing near.

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Stevenson

hillsonn · 1 year

Please help me. (オリジナルの劇をつくろう）

-Eigo No-to volume 2.

eljobo · 1 year

The vertebral arteries ascend along the bony vertebrae and enter the base of the skull.

ebullient · 1 year

Yo pense que me dormiria y que toda Alemania se iba a enterar de que me habia pasado la noche en pie como un caballo, y de que me iban a meter un termometro y que me mandarian a la casa con una nota para el papi, que yo mismo tendria que traducirsela.

No Paso Nada by Antonio Skarmeta

kerob · 1 year

Of course there is no law that compels them to fight so often.

Ernest Hemingway. Death in the Afternoon.

kurtu5 · 1 year

Page 50 just has a diagram. Here is page 51.

"There are more sophisticated ways to select the factory at run-time."

"Design Patterns", by Gamma, Helm, Johnson and Vlissides

TypoTat · 1 year

וירא אלהים אל-יעקב עוד בבאו מפדן ארם ויברך אתו

Funny, the closest book turned out to be my Hebrew bible. I'm not religious or anything, I just use if for reference on my site.

It's Genesis 35:9, "And God revealed himself to Jacob again, as he was coming from Padan Aram, and blessed him"

jininberry · 1 year

"You like to hear about gold." -Robert Frost

[deleted] · 1 year

"She's tough!" yelled one of the crowd.

Crime and Punishment, Feodor Dostoevsky

star_boy · 1 year

Please take me to (this address).

Lonely Planet Vietnamese Phrasebook

professorboat · 1 year

Incredulity doesn't kill curiosity; it encourages it.

Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum.

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