Out of context...

[Arkhangelsk]

You know how you read something completely random from a book, and all you can think is "This is a weeeiiiird book." Well, let's switch it around. I want you to find your favorite book (or the most nearby book that you enjoy), open a random page, and read the first sentences you see, and show how weird it sounds out of context.

I'll start off with my favorite, Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman: "Lion said: 'I have no love for Anansi The Spider. Once, long ago, he tied me to a log, and had a donkey drag me through the dust, to the seat of Mawu who made all things.'"

Yeah, that was pretty weird... Now your turn.

Also, don't take anything that is too spoilerific. If it is something that could potentially ruin the book for somebody else, close the book and try again. I hope my quote won't ruin the experience for anyone.

 

[El Poncho]

+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Re-install Universe And Reboot +++

From Terry Pratchetts Hogfather.

 

[hurfdurp]

I'm currently reading Watership Down by Richard Adams so I suppose I'll use that even though it's not a favourite: "The growth is so thick and matted that even the wind does not move it, but it is the moonlight that seems to confer stillness upon it." Ha, gross.

 

[Harlemura]

"LOOK!"
... Well, that's what I get for only having a comic book nearby.

No, no, this'll work. Let me try again...
"C'mon, I just charged you!"
That's better, but not by much. There's so many lines in Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour that could've been epically hilarious.
I'm disappointed now.

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

Flipped through a bunch of pages of The Eye of the World, but honestly, nothing seemed weird out of context.

 

[Wormthong]

"no" said (blank for possibility of a chance of spoilers) "i loved seeing dragons fly in the middle of the city"

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

Then it released the fawn.

It doesn't sound all that odd I suppose, but it can confuse those wondering what exactly released the fawn.
Is from a book called Natural Selection by the way.

 

[FalloutJack]

You know how you read something completely random from a book, and all you can think is "This is a weeeiiiird book." Well, let's switch it around. I want you to find your favorite book (or the most nearby book that you enjoy), open a random page, and read the first sentences you see, and show how weird it sounds out of context.

I'll start off with my favorite, Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman: "Lion said: 'I have no love for Anansi The Spider. Once, long ago, he tied me to a log, and had a donkey drag me through the dust, to the seat of Mawu who made all things.'"

Yeah, that was pretty weird... Now your turn.

Also, don't take anything that is too spoilerific. If it is something that could potentially ruin the book for somebody else, close the book and try again. I hope my quote won't ruin the experience for anyone.

I can't take it out of context!! ...I've read the book.

Anyway, I'll play this game, but I'm not gonna tell you where it's from. That's no fun at all. So...

"I was having NC-17 fantasies about you! Planning and scamming life like a regular Casanova And now, you're a big, DISGUSTING KOJAK REJECT!! [HEADING=2]THAT'S FREAKIN' GROSS!"[/HEADING]

Have fun.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

You know how you read something completely random from a book, and all you can think is "This is a weeeiiiird book." Well, let's switch it around. I want you to find your favorite book (or the most nearby book that you enjoy), open a random page, and read the first sentences you see, and show how weird it sounds out of context.

I'll start off with my favorite, Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman: "Lion said: 'I have no love for Anansi The Spider. Once, long ago, he tied me to a log, and had a donkey drag me through the dust, to the seat of Mawu who made all things.'"

Yeah, that was pretty weird... Now your turn.

Also, don't take anything that is too spoilerific. If it is something that could potentially ruin the book for somebody else, close the book and try again. I hope my quote won't ruin the experience for anyone.

I can't take it out of context!! ...I've read the book.

Anyway, I'll play this game, but I'm not gonna tell you where it's from. That's no fun at all. So...

"I was having NC-17 fantasies about you! Planning and scamming life like a regular Casanova And now, you're a big, DISGUSTING KOJAK REJECT!! [HEADING=2]THAT'S FREAKIN' GROSS!"[/HEADING]

Have fun.

What kind of freaky sci-fi erotica do you read?

One book I discovered that really would fit this topic is Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. Nothing in that book makes sense. It's a non-existent plot combined with made up English. Analysts have spent years analyzing, and still no result. Take this quote:

"Though the length of land lies under liquidation (floote!) and there's nare a hairbrow nor an eyebush on this glaubrous phace of Herrschuft Whatarwelter she'll loan a vesta and hire some peat and sarch the shores her cockles to heat and she'll do all a turfwoman can to piff the business on."

And no, those spelling errors aren't spelling errors. They are actually in the book.

 

[Liam1390]

Well, this was written to be out of context anyways, but here it is, a line from Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain:

I pressed the red flashing light, signaled for Steven at the grill to turn the radio.
"Feed the *****!" Said the voice on the phone."Feed the ***** or she'll die."
It was Adam.

 

[Hiraeth]

"Gentlemen, we just seized an airfield," Colbert says. "That was pretty ninja."

From Generation Kill, by Evan Wright.

Fun thread

 

[Quaxar]

It's November 10th now, there is a circulatory system walking through the kitchen.

Yeah, it's Watchmen's Doctor Manhattan.

 

[Tharwen]

"Find the following integrals, using the given substitutions."

From Pure Mathematics C3 C4.

 

[thylasos]

?On lui avait répondu qu'on ne gardait pas trace de ces choses-là, parce qu'ils arrivaient tous les jours.? Albert Camus - L'étranger

 

[superbatranger]

You know how you read something completely random from a book, and all you can think is "This is a weeeiiiird book." Well, let's switch it around. I want you to find your favorite book (or the most nearby book that you enjoy), open a random page, and read the first sentences you see, and show how weird it sounds out of context.

I'll start off with my favorite, Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman: "Lion said: 'I have no love for Anansi The Spider. Once, long ago, he tied me to a log, and had a donkey drag me through the dust, to the seat of Mawu who made all things.'"

Yeah, that was pretty weird... Now your turn.

Also, don't take anything that is too spoilerific. If it is something that could potentially ruin the book for somebody else, close the book and try again. I hope my quote won't ruin the experience for anyone.

Your favorite book is Anansi Boys? You are awesome.

OT: He was their butt when he was alive. -The Gunslinger by Stephen King.

 

[Ruffythepirate]

Context means everything all the time.

 

[Quaxar]

You know how you read something completely random from a book, and all you can think is "This is a weeeiiiird book." Well, let's switch it around. I want you to find your favorite book (or the most nearby book that you enjoy), open a random page, and read the first sentences you see, and show how weird it sounds out of context.

I'll start off with my favorite, Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman: "Lion said: 'I have no love for Anansi The Spider. Once, long ago, he tied me to a log, and had a donkey drag me through the dust, to the seat of Mawu who made all things.'"

Yeah, that was pretty weird... Now your turn.

Also, don't take anything that is too spoilerific. If it is something that could potentially ruin the book for somebody else, close the book and try again. I hope my quote won't ruin the experience for anyone.

I can't take it out of context!! ...I've read the book.

Anyway, I'll play this game, but I'm not gonna tell you where it's from. That's no fun at all. So...

"I was having NC-17 fantasies about you! Planning and scamming life like a regular Casanova And now, you're a big, DISGUSTING KOJAK REJECT!! [HEADING=2]THAT'S FREAKIN' GROSS!"[/HEADING]

Have fun.

What kind of freaky sci-fi erotica do you read?

One book I discovered that really would fit this topic is Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. Nothing in that book makes sense. It's a non-existent plot combined with made up English. Analysts have spent years analyzing, and still no result. Take this quote:

"Though the length of land lies under liquidation (floote!) and there's nare a hairbrow nor an eyebush on this glaubrous phace of Herrschuft Whatarwelter she'll loan a vesta and hire some peat and sarch the shores her cockles to heat and she'll do all a turfwoman can to piff the business on."

And no, those spelling errors aren't spelling errors. They are actually in the book.

Wait, someone who has actually read Finnegans Wake? Woah!

 

[Jedamethis]

I can't be arsed to find a book, so:

"It's clearly milk. IN GHASTLY FORM."
"My printer does not have sex with other male printers!"

Both of those made perfect sense when I said them.

 

[Je Suis Ubermonkey]

"It's a personal thing between Aphrael and me," Sparhawk replied in a grating tone. "I won't win many arguments with her, but I am going to win the one about whales."

Yay for whales.

 

[TheHecatomb]

Fig. 48; Deltoideus (m. deltoideus, 41).

Uhm yeah. Nothing but anatomical references on my bookshelf here.