I dial a primrose, they give me a pro

[sovay]

A meme! Via 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.")

Comments

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

"The chronology began one Sunday morning in December 1937 when he noticed an item in a forthcoming sale catalog that awoke him from a comfortable lethargy: Prozess gegen Juden von Trent 1476-1478, manuscript written in gothic letters of 614 pp.with a border on folio 2 verso, in gold and colours, with the coat-of-arms of the Duke of Wurrtemberg, for whom this account was written, old vellum folio circa 1478."

fromA Gentle Madness by Nicholas Basbanes

Library school reading and sex do not go very well together, I guess.

[sovay]

"The chronology began one Sunday morning in December 1937 when he noticed an item in a forthcoming sale catalog that awoke him from a comfortable lethargy: Prozess gegen Juden von Trent 1476-1478, manuscript written in gothic letters of 614 pp.with a border on folio 2 verso, in gold and colours, with the coat-of-arms of the Duke of Wurrtemberg, for whom this account was written, old vellum folio circa 1478."

I'm sure it's a fetish for somebody . . .

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

I dunno, a romance that began with paleography would be MY kind of affair...