Only that nothing's exactly as it appears

[sovay]

Right, that international book week meme. The fifth sentence on page 52 of the closest book to me, sans context:

It's the voice of an invalid, of a monster in pain.

(I'm not sure what the lack of context adds to the experience, but it's the topmost book on the window-seat stack closest to my desk. I got it from rushthatspeaks.)

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[tilivenn.livejournal.com]

Two were equidistant, for me:
"Without waiting for a reply, Joe-Jim turned the lights back on, using the duplicate controls mounted in the left arm of his chair."
"Both kinds of symbolism - the Greeks' unknowable matter, to be transcended in knowledge, and Bacon's mysterious, but knowable Nature - have played crucial roles in the constitution of the feminine in relation to our ideals of knowledge."