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.")
gwynnega: (John Hurt Raskolnikov 2)

[personal profile] gwynnega 2012-01-12 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"In a sketchbook he had bought from Au Rat Peint, an artists' supply shop in the rue Soufflot, is a series of pencil drawings, washed in with color."

-- Paul O'Keeffe, Gaudier-Brzeska: An Absolute Case of Genius

Hmm...