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Posted: May 1st, 2009, 10:57 am
by stilltrucking
"Go on faster, Jesus"; whereupon the Man of Sorrows replied, "I am going, but thou shalt tarry till I come again."

(Chronicle of St. Alban's Abbey; 1228.)

Posted: May 1st, 2009, 11:47 am
by Barry
The party was in a room reserved for such occasions.

The Last Time They Met
Anita Shreve

Posted: May 2nd, 2009, 8:14 am
by stilltrucking
"Burroughs' career will shift now: he will begin to try to undo the consciousness that brought him to this moment."

genesis angles, Aram Saroyan

Posted: May 2nd, 2009, 12:17 pm
by stilltrucking
"If you can't give me love and peace,
Then give me bitter fame."

Bitter Fame, Anne Stevenson

Posted: May 3rd, 2009, 10:24 pm
by stilltrucking
"Now IN THESE DEAD LATTER DAYS of the old violent beloved U.S.A. and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted death-dealing Western world I came to myself in a grove of young pines and the question came to me: has it happened at last?"

Love In The Ruins, Walker Percy

Posted: May 4th, 2009, 7:36 am
by the mingo
"Again it came."

Masters of Solitude
Marvin Kaye & Parke Godwin

Posted: May 4th, 2009, 10:34 am
by stilltrucking
"The shark swam out to his deepest waters and brooded in the cold clean currents."

A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ
Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Posted: May 4th, 2009, 10:41 am
by Barry
"I have my offices here and am available as house physician when needed."

To Sail Beyond The Sunset
Robert A. Heinlein

Posted: May 4th, 2009, 7:01 pm
by Doreen Peri
there are some cool phrases and images in here... gonna grab a few and do a cut-up tonight ;)

Posted: May 5th, 2009, 7:02 am
by the mingo
Hey DOREEN! It's the next morning now so where is the God Blessed cut-up :?: :?: :?:

Posted: May 5th, 2009, 7:12 am
by Doreen Peri
lol

i didn't do it yet

:P

Posted: May 5th, 2009, 8:31 am
by the mingo
Tease !

Posted: May 5th, 2009, 8:31 am
by Doreen Peri
hehe

Posted: May 11th, 2009, 11:12 am
by Barry
"The gunslinger retreated on legs he could barely feel, realizing that the creature must have some intelligence; it had approached him cautiously, perhaps from a long way down the strand, not sure what he was or of what he might be capable."

The Drawing Of The Three
The Dark Tower II

Stephen King (pg. 19)

Posted: May 11th, 2009, 4:01 pm
by still.trucking
"Only a thing monstrous, a thing preternatural, or a thing with addled wits would hike purposefully down the trail at noon this way."

A Canticle For Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr. page 1