sovay: (Morell: quizzical)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2012-01-12 12:26 am

I dial a primrose, they give me a pro

A meme! Via [livejournal.com profile] matociquala:

Pick up the nearest book to you. Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.

"I telephoned Ozanne's secretary and said that I needed to see the colonel on an urgent matter, that it would take about an hour and that I would be grateful if Colonel Pollock could be present."

—Leo Marks, Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941–1945 (1998)

(The follow-up sentence: "I also requested the use of a blackboard.")

[identity profile] gaudior.livejournal.com 2012-01-12 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, good. I am relieved to hear that. Grin.

Okay, so let's try... Aegypt, by John Crowley.

"The Woods as a psychiatric center was to have all the tranquilizing properties it had as a resort, and the principles it is run on are communal in some of the same ways, not excepting group sings around the fire and even hayrides."

...um, can I focus more on the part of that that implies pleasant orgies, and less on the part that implies going inpatient?

[identity profile] schreibergasse.livejournal.com 2012-01-13 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Ohdeargod. I just had a vision of what would happen if you picked up a novel by John Norman for this purpose.