there’s no use admiring a thing just because it lasted. My brother once had a boil on his bottom a whole year, and it was nothing you’d want to see in the photogravure
Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
I learned about a new writing–and in this case, reading–challenge from Rarasaur.
The Trifecta weekend challenge, or Trifextra (smiles all around! It’s a Fictionary™ word!) is thus:
We want you to scour through your favorite pieces of literature and give us the best 33 words you can find.
Some quick guidelines:
- The writing you choose should not be your own.
- The 33 words should be lifted directly from another source (i.e. don’t take 33 random words from Macbeth and shake them into a poem of your own (though that would be an awesome idea for another challenge) and don’t take a sentence from the beginning of a book and another from the end–keep the original order).
- Credit your sources.
- You can’t use the same 33 words as anyone else in the linkz. Skim through before posting your own. You can use the same author and even the same title, just not the exact same words.
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Sounds cool!
I love Barbara Kingsolver and this quote is a great choice!
Ha!ha!What a great quote;-)
“Fictionary”-love that term:-)
This was a great choice…totally unexpected.
Thank you 🙂
I also laughed out loud with this one – the unexpectedness of it, I think.
Thanks! It was a lucky find!
The Lacuna is an amazing book on so many levels. It’s epistolary historical fiction, involving characters like Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivero, Leon Trotsky all centered around a character whose life illustrates so many social struggles: the red scare, gay rights, race/class, anti-intellectualism. And it manages to be tragic and hilarious at turns. A really amazing book.
I love this!
Thanks so much, Deanabo 🙂
Welcome!! So glad you linked up with us this weekend, and I absolutely love your choice. Kingsolver has quite a way with words, doesn’t she? Hope to see you back on Monday for the weekday prompt. (Also: Fictionary? Awesome.)
Thank you! What a fun community you’ve created. I will definitely check out the prompt tomorrow.
Please play along with Fictionary too…. I make damn good muffins 🙂
Kylie, I like you choice! Good one! It makes me perfectly uncomfortable.
I know… can you imagine? A whole year? Ouch.
Hilarious and true, one of my favorite combinations! 😉 Thanks for sharing your selection. It’s awesome.
Thanks for stopping by. Glad to give you a laugh 🙂
aha – I can see this book out of the corner of my eye . . . . it is begging to be read. thanks for the reminder. and – welcome to trifecta.
Oh, it is a good one!!! You will love it. And, thank you 🙂
Hah! Your choice was unexpected as that boil. Fun!! 😀
Thanks! It was hard to find the ‘perfect’ 33 words, so I was delighted to find this quote 🙂
🙂
heh, that’s one way to make a point (:
Especially if you have a lance…
ouch…
This sounds very intriguing. I’ll have to pull a few books off the shelf in the morning and give it a try…
It’s a quick turn-around. Better do it now!
I’m about to fall asleep and could not possibly count to 33… 😉
It’s quite a challenge. It was hard enough here where it’s only 12:15.
Another time, another time.
haha! Concise and true! I love Kingsolver. I’m also really glad that people don’t put pictures of their boils in photo albums. 🙂
hehehheee
I have a stack of Ann Patchett, David Sedaris, Barbara Kingsolver, and Toni Morrison next to me and that was the most awesome 33 words I could find 🙂
Funny, I just read this book and remember loving that sentence, among many others of hers.
Karen, isn’t Barbara Kingsolver one of the greatest writers of our era???