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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:42 pm
by bobtheenchantedone
It's from one of my very favorite books, Seven Daughters and Seven Sons. Everyone should read it. It's lovely.
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 1:59 pm
by Portia
If they took him to the cemetery and laid him in a grave, he would allow himself to be covered with earth, and then, as it was night, the grave-diggers could scarcely have turned their backs before he would have worked his way through the yielding soil and escaped. He hoped that the weight of earth would not be so great that he could not overcome it. If he was detected in this and the earth proved too heavy, he would be stifled, and then—so much the better, all would be over.
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:11 pm
by 361
The Count of Monte-Cristo!
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:35 pm
by Giovanni Schwartz
Is that 1984?
Fie on't. Ah, fie.
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:53 pm
by Unit of Energy
Hamlet.
Her hands trembled and her heartbeat quickened, for she was frightened
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:20 pm
by 361
Julie of the Wolves!! I read that way back in Junior High or something...
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence. (Just 361)
Ok... so I modified it a bit to suit my vanity....
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 5:46 pm
by Giovanni Schwartz
The Oddesty
Across the room, just a few feet away, the Paytons and Jeanette settled into their chair's at the plaintiff's table.