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%title Mwah!
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%date 2005-04-25 03:58:03
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:diary:livejournal:fossils:
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1. Choose five to ten of your all time favorite books.
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2. Take the first sentence of the first chapter and make a list in your journal.
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3. Don't reveal the author or the title of the book.
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4. Now everyone try and guess! Cross them off as they're guessed correctly.
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<details text="Yipku."><summary>Yipku.</summary>
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1. We lived in the village of Nazareth, an insignificant hillside town in Galilee, nowhere mentioned in the Scriptures - you probably haven't heard of it even if you come from northern Israel yourself.
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2. All the palmate-leaved ones, the / pinnate, and the pinnatifid, the entire - / Rosy Hawaiian Babies, wize Mazatec sages, / and the old Indian rope trick.
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3. Pharmacodynamics is the study of the effects and actions of drugs on living organisms.
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<s>4. Once upon a time, there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.</s>
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<s>5a. The rabbit had been run over minutes before.</s>
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<s>5b. Deep within a dream, Lirael felt someone stroking her forehead. </s>
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<s>5c. There was another fog, far away from the smog of Corvere. </s>
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6a. The Consul awoke with a peculiar headache, dry throat, and sense of having forgotten a thousand dreams which only periods in cryogenic fugue could bring.
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6b. On the day the armada went off to war, on the last day of life as we knew it, I was invited to a party.
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6c. You are reading this for the wrong reason.
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6d. "The Pope is dead, long live the Pope!"
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7. Context is everything.
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8. The Eighth World Futurological Congress was held in Costa Rica.
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9. At 19.00 hours ship's time, I made my way to the launching bay.
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10. The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcatagory.
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11. While enthusiasts and detractors will continue to empty entire dictionaries attempting to describe or deride it, "authenticity" still remains the word most likely to stir a debate.
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<s>12. The Pentabarf was discovered by the hermit Apostle Zarathud in the Fifth Year of the Caterpillar.</s>
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</details>
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