stealstheashes:

tengorazones:

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themegaloo:

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miasnape:

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“Yhdistä persoona ja verbi” - “Link the pronoun and the verb”

“He loved the ladies. (Plural, that is.)”
— Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children, and Other Streets of New Orleans, by John Chase

“Team up and send them to Greece to form the basis of a new currency.”

— The One Hundred Most Pointless Things in the World, by Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman

I am not going to reblog the sentence in question from the book nearest me, because it has to do with child sacrifice.

“Standard carny procedure” - Grave Peril by Jim Butcher

“She always loved my stories from the war, too.”  Okay, so the closest book was Captain America: Road to Reborn. (I counted the pages)

She made no moan—her heart was stone—she read his smiling face;

And like a dream flashed all her life’s dark horror and disgrace;

A moment only—with a snarl he hurled her into space.

(Robert Service, “Ballads of a Cheechako,” 1909)

As science fiction scholar Jess Nevins explains below in an excerpt from his Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana, Oshikawa merges these themes with fanciful machines manned by the Nemo-like renegade, Captain Sakuragi. -The Steampunk Bible, Jeff Vandermeer.

Basically, alien machine sex?

Being a solitary person without a sense of country, he had never felt he belonged to that village— or to any other.

(Eva Luna, Isabel Allende)

Twenty-three? - When She Woke, Hillary Jordan.

(At first I miscounted and got “She didn’t know, and her ignorance made her anxious.”)