1. From National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southeastern States. Page 13, the sentence that encompasses Line 13:
Making up the eastern third of Kentucky and Tennessee and extending into Virginia and Alabama, the Cumberland Plateau is composed of sedimentary rocks deposited 250 to 350 million years ago during the region's transition from shallow sea to continental uplands.
2. The American Heritage Thesaurus, Page 13, Line 13:
"To oversee the provision or execution of: administrate, carry out, dispense, execute (Compare conduct). (defining the word "administer")
3. Folk Medicine: A New England almanac of natural health care from a noted Vermont country doctor. By D. C. Jarvis, M.D. Page 13, Line 13:
The amount of sugar in your blood is one teaspoonful. This amount is so essential that, were it reduced to a half teaspoonful, you would lose consciousness.
4. An American Childhood, by Annie Dillard. Page 13, Line 13:
Oops. Page 13 just says "Part one". So 13 pages from the end, Line 13:
Pretty soon all twenty of us - our class - would be leaving.
5. Last Days of Glory, by Tony Rennell. Page 13, Line 13:
One conspirator sent a suggestion of how the positions in the private office should be carved up, putting himself down for a promotion and a handsome L1,000 a year salary, and ending his note with the ridiculously melodramatic suggestion that Reid should 'burn it at once if you think best.'
Okay, that's enough of that. It's not 13, though. Yikes.
Love this sort of stuff! I particularly enjoyed the one about our sugar levels. Amazing.
ReplyDeleteVery clever idea to take the thirteenth line from page 13 for Thursday Thirteen! By the way, Dr. Jarvis's Folk Medicine was my Grandpa's health Bible. Grandpa wouldn't go to doctors, but believed, like Dr. Jarvis, that honey and apple cider vinegar would cure most anything. And, I've got to say--Grandpa was very, very healthy!
ReplyDeleteDid you run out of books or just get tired of it?
ReplyDeleteColleen - I ran out of time, not out of books. My shelves are lined with books, here, there, everywhere. But I don't have that much time on the shelves these days.
ReplyDeleteWell I think we can help you reach 13...
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Page 13, Line 13:
"It was an ordinary bus trip with crying babies and hot sun, and countryfolk getting on at one Penn town after another, till we got on the plain of Ohio and really rolled, up by Ashtabula and straight across Indian in the night."
Oh, Thanks Ms. E! Very helpful! Anyone else?
ReplyDeleteI'll help!
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Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Page 13 Line 13 (plus a bit of 14)
"It was hard to imagine the grass had ever been green. Everywhere you stepped, little grasshoppers would fly up by the score, making that snap they do, like striking a match."