Find the nearest book...

[Earth_First]

What is the first sentence to the seventh chapter?

"One hundred and twenty acres, according to the County Clerk, is the extent of my worldly domain."

-Chapter 7; July, Great Possessions "A Sand County Almanac" by Aldo Leopold

[ananda]

1. Arthur Koestler: The Sleepwalkers

Part II, Section 2, p. 97

"It is a walled-in universe like a walled-in medieval town."

[winter is coming]

2. "At nine o’clock sharp on Tuesday evening my mother received another demand from the blackmailer."

-Chapter 7 "Crossfire" by Dick & Felix Francis.

[Chan790]

3. "As I was saying..."

-Chapter 7: Do Go On: On Wrangling Boredom. The Art of Conversation: A Guided Tour of a Neglected Pleasure by Catherine Blyth

(It's a book on improving one's conversational skills. I was never an introvert to begin with but it has improved my conversational skills and made me seem more witty, worldly and charming. Highly recommended. This copy is dog-eared and taped together with packing tape, the binding long long gone.)

[MrScorpio]

4. Noam Chomsky - American Power

Chapter 7; On Resistance:

"Several weeks after the demonstrations in Washington, I am still trying to sort out my impressions of a week whose quality is difficult to capture or express."

[Pab Sungenis]

5. ...

"Sometimes it's so satisfying to pull back and slug a bad guy in the face, particularly when you have issues to work through."

-- "Sidekick" by Pab Sungenis

Well, it WAS the closest book to me.

[LWolf]

6. Okay.

"The study which led to this chapter began in 1987 when I first expressed curiosity about parents helping parents to Dave Stokan, the assistant principal at the middle school where I taught."
- Trish Gaffney, Adolescent Literacy Field Tested: Effective Solutions for Every Classroom

[fleur-de-lisa]

7. 'Figures in Silk', by Venora Bennett . . .

"Jane only giggled ruefully when Isabel sneaked another illicit hour off work to ask whether the king was helping her pay to take her now-rejected divorce suit to Rome."

This is an historic novel about the lives of women involved in the silk trade in London during the late 1400's. The two women mentioned in the quote from the first line of Chapter 7 were sisters. Jane Shore was an actual historic character purported to be the mistress of King Edward IV. Her sister in the novel, Isabel Claver, a mostly fictional character who, at least in the novel, was the mistress of the kings younger brother, Richard. Richard would later become the hated King Richard III.

After King Edward died, his two young sons, the princes in the tower, mysteriously disappeared. Richard seized the throne and was widely believed to be responsible for the disappearance of his nephews, the older of which was the rightful heir to the throne.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

8. The (Fabulous) Fibonacci Numbers

by Alfred S Posamentier & Ingmar Lehman

"The golden ration seems to be ever present in both art and architecture."

Chapter 7, The Fibonacci Numbers Found in Art and Architecture. Page 231

[MissHoneychurch]

9. "The trap was set"

Edward Rutherfurd - "The Rebels of Ireland", Chapter 7; Georgiana

[sarge43]

10. "The world arrived in the mail. It was marked 'Fragile'."

Billions & Billions, Carl Sagan. The World That Came In The Mail, Chapter 7

[In_The_Wind]

11. Selena and Rhyann rode into the Old Place,

reining in a few steps after crossing the boundary they recognized by the slightly different feel of the land.


Chapter 7 ... dark of the moon "The House of Gaian" by Anne Bishop

[lame54]

12. ...

Paradise Vendors, Incorporated, was housed in what had formerly been an automobile repair shop, the dark ground floor of an otherwise unoccupied commercial building on Poydras Street.

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. Polly Praed was still staring malevolently at Melrose Plant

3/4 of ah hour later when he had moved them from the dining room of Gun Lodge to the more pungent airs of Deer Leap.

from: The Dear Leap by, Martha Grimes.

and No, I am not currently reading it ...

[Moondog]

14. "Log Periodic Dipole Array (LPDA) is one of

a family of frequency-independent antennas."

The ARRL Antenna Book for Radio Communications, 22nd Edition (2011). Chapter 7 "Log-Periodic Dipole Arrays".

[csziggy]

15. 7. Taiga Shield and Hudson Plains

"The Taiga Shield and Hudson Plains is perhaps the largest wetland complex in the world."

From The American Bird Conservancy Guide to the 500 Most Important Bird Areas in The United States.

The entire 7th "Chapter" is three sentences long. The other two sentences are:
"Dense sedge-moss-lichen groundcover is intersperse with open woodlands of black spruce and tamarack on drier sites. Representative birds are Rock and Willow Ptarmigan, Black Scoter, Northern Shrike, and Blackpoll Warbler."

Very exciting!