This week I’m posting a double dose of quotes, words, and book openers. Enjoy.
BOOK OPENER #1: “No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.”
– War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (which, by the way, can be read for AR!)
BOOK OPENER #2: “First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey.”
– The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (also an AR book)
WORD #1: virulent
WORD #2: loquatious
QUOTE #1: “The question of literature, I suppose, is whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.” – Elizabeth Drew
QUOTE #2: (the following quote is from the 1980 documentary AC/DC: Let There Be Rock)
Interviewer: Do you think there will be a third world war?
Angus Young: I am the third world war.
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