I feel like a pig shat in my head...

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Fab night last night with gracious1, yoshithedragon, legs11, spikelover69, teylaminh, metalmikey666 and lots of non ljers!

Am feeling rather fragile today as a result. So wanted to put some soothing music on but as the stereo is broken, I ended up getting up, hoovering, buying food, drinking coffee, dusting and am about to put right my lack of noise. I'm sick of using my not-so-wonderful radio as a source of entertainment!

I wish the weather would make up its mind. We've had warm sun, cold rain, cloudy clear skies, high winds and light breezes. Ah well, at least it isn't boring.

1. Grab the nearest book.

2. Open the book to page 123.

3. Find the fifth sentence.

4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.

5. No book cheating. Just pick up whatever is closest.

Thank God his bladder and sphincter still functioned!
But the rest of his body wouldn't respond to the conscious commands. Though he could see and hear, he could neither close his eyes nor cover his ears.

From Paul Dale Anderson's 'Rite of Spring', a short story in Shock Rock Edited by Jeff Gelb, Published in 1993 by Pocket Books.

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[zevbofb3k.livejournal.com]

"Planting his right foot on Irish soil, he burst into a poem preserved in both the Book of Lecan and the Book of Ballymote. It is a good example of pantheistic philosophy of the Celtic races, and a very close parallel to it is contained in an early Welsh poem, called the "Battle of the Trees", and attributed to the famous bard Taliesin. "I am the wind that blows upon the sea", sang Amergin; "I am the ocean wave; I am the murmur of the surges; I am seven battalions; I am a strong bull; I am an eagle on a rock; I am a ray of the sun; I am the most beautiful of herbs; I am a courageous wild boar; I am a salmon in the water; I am a lake upon a plain; I am a cunning artist; I am a gigantic, sword wielding champion; I can shift my shape like a god".

Phew, that was a long one!

From Charles Squire's 'The Conquest of the Gods by Mortals' in 'Celtic Myth and Legend', published by Gresham Publishing, date unspecified (rather old)

[stelmaria-clg.livejournal.com]

"Is it good, is it bad, is it right or wrong? Where are we going to? and so on. So she righted herself after the shock of the event, and quite unconsciously and incongruously, used the branches of the elm trees outside to help her to stabilise her position"

Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse (first published 1927, this edition Penguin Classics 1992)

[sleepydave.livejournal.com]

when looking at the fourth kata, ippon me mae, you can see in figures #1 through #4 the movement of the blade a little more clearly. the movement of the down stroke is a little different, going to the right side of the body instead of the left. this is from the mori-ryu iai-do, but the results are the same.

from 'iai - the art of drawing the sword' by darrell max craig, which was on the foor at the bottom of my bed ;)
the second nearest book at the moment is 'the meg and mog jigsaw puzzle book' which would have resulted in a vastly different quote! ;D