That meme

[flemmings]

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

(Snerks. 'Sex is but a dream to/ Seventy and over'-- Auden only said seventy because it had to scan. Sixty is what he meant. But anyway:)

"It's beyond me why she lets her husband do what he likes all the time." Sample sentence from 'Communicating with Ki; the "spirit" in Japanese idioms'. Translation of "Anna suki-katte na koto sasete, mattaku kanojo no ki ga shirenai wa.

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ooh look subject lines!!!

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

Page 45, the nearest book to me is Sharpe's Honour by Bernard Cornwell. First sentence: "... Nothing like a good sermon to put men in a frog-filling mood. I hear there was a ribbon-merchant looking for you?"

On the page itself it starts from the word 'sermon'. So I don't know if it's going to be frog-killing (and since it's about the Napoleonics I'm guessing he means the French) or the ribbon merchant. (a haberdasher?)

I would hate to think of what either might mean for my sex life @_@ .

Re: ooh look subject lines!!!

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

...also it could have been worse I was reading Tacitus' 'Madness of Nero' ... now that would have definitely been one with evil portends. ^_~ Although not entirely great reading matter, it was gripping in that "shouldn't watch it but it's a train wreck" kind of way. It is also short.

Re: ooh look subject lines!!!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

(Subject lines go with my style. Is why I use my style.)

The ribbon merchant, I think. First full sentence on p.45. Frilly bondage?

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[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

I have actually read more of the book, and from what I gather, a ribbon merchant was a (Spanish) Catholic priest. Due to the pristine white robes, edged in scarlet, laced with gold and the blue sashes.

I have no idea if this is particular to this time period and place (the rifleman in question, Sharpe, is fighting the French on Spanish soil, during Wellington's Vittoria Campaign. February to June 1813), or just something the author uses.

Coincidentally (or not), hubby was brought up Catholic and even joined a seminary, before deciding that the priesthood was not for him. @_@

My life, the strange turns it sometimes takes.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I think it's supposed to be the first full sentence on p 45. What comes after 'clients'?