Today I'm giving away a copy of Codes by Briane Pagel.
As a special thing for the blog, I'll post the puzzle here first, and then if nobody answers by tonight I'll post directly to facebook and twitter. Please remember our rules 1)you have to live in the contiguous 48 or be willing to pay shipping yourself, 2) this has to be legal where you are, and 3) you have to be a real person.
Bit first I'm going to make you scroll way down.
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Mixed Messages:
Below is a paragraph composed of five sentences. Each of these sentences is taken from an out of copyright work of fiction. Your challange, should you choose to accept it, is to identify each work, and give me back the title, author, and paragraph our sentence was used in. Just to make things interesting a couple of sentences are missing a word or two. Happy googling.
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. The fields were spread with growth, and the waters clad with sunshine, and light and shadow, step by step, wandered over the furzy cleves. Since we had entered the territory we had not seen a hostile Indian, and we had, therefore, become careless in the extreme, and were wont to ridicule the stories we had heard of the great numbers of these vicious marauders that were supposed to haunt the trails, taking their toll in lives and torture of every white party which fell into their merciless clutches. The Judge was at a meeting of the Raisin Growers' Association, and the boys were busy organizing an athletic club, on the memorable night of Manuel's treachery. Saturday was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life."
So there it is. Five sentences from five works. Best of luck to you!
As a special thing for the blog, I'll post the puzzle here first, and then if nobody answers by tonight I'll post directly to facebook and twitter. Please remember our rules 1)you have to live in the contiguous 48 or be willing to pay shipping yourself, 2) this has to be legal where you are, and 3) you have to be a real person.
Bit first I'm going to make you scroll way down.
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Mixed Messages:
Below is a paragraph composed of five sentences. Each of these sentences is taken from an out of copyright work of fiction. Your challange, should you choose to accept it, is to identify each work, and give me back the title, author, and paragraph our sentence was used in. Just to make things interesting a couple of sentences are missing a word or two. Happy googling.
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. The fields were spread with growth, and the waters clad with sunshine, and light and shadow, step by step, wandered over the furzy cleves. Since we had entered the territory we had not seen a hostile Indian, and we had, therefore, become careless in the extreme, and were wont to ridicule the stories we had heard of the great numbers of these vicious marauders that were supposed to haunt the trails, taking their toll in lives and torture of every white party which fell into their merciless clutches. The Judge was at a meeting of the Raisin Growers' Association, and the boys were busy organizing an athletic club, on the memorable night of Manuel's treachery. Saturday was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life."
So there it is. Five sentences from five works. Best of luck to you!
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