Oh, dear, that's unfortunate

[womzilla]

From nellorat:

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

"A benign demigod of boundless wisdom, his existence was devoted solely to observation and solitude."

--description of Uatu the Watcher from Lee and Kirby: The Wonder Years

Oh, dear. Oh, oh, dear.

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[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

I...have the MLA handbook.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

Don't leave us hanging! What's the oracle say?

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

I'm taking a bit of license and going with the first COMPLETE sentence. This is, after all, the MLA handbook.

"Logic requires that there be a II to complement a I, a B to complement an A, and so forth."

It's actually rather me, and very romantic for a stylebook.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

The book closest to me is a Hunter S. Thompson collection; I'm not opening it until I'm at home, sitting down.

[uvula-fr-b4.livejournal.com]

"He likes to watch" seems to be a theme here....

Nearest book to me? A mass market paperback copy of Jo Nesbᴓ's The Redbreast.

And the oracle says: "He stared towards the booth."

.....

Okay, I want a re-do.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

"The adverbial ending of most adjectives is -ως, and so adverbs are usually derived from adjectives by adding -ως to the stem." -- The Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek.

...er.

[stevendj.livejournal.com]

So Mummy used to say, "How many wives have you?" and when the chief said "Five" or "Fifteen" or "Sixty," whatever the number was, Mummy would tell him Daddy was twice as big a chief.

(From Alice Sheldon's first published work, when she was still Alice Bradley.)

[richardthe23rd.livejournal.com]

"Contrast that with the J-T-9-7, which can make big draws in multiple ways."