Ukens første avsnitt! - 3

CHAPTER ONE:

THREE INVALIDS. - SUFFERINGS OF GEORGE AND HARRIS. - A VICTIM TO ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN FATAL MALADIES. - USEFUL PRESCRIPTIONS. - CURE FOR LIVER COMPLAINT IN CHILDREN. - WE AGREE THAT WE ARE OVERWORKED, AND NEED REST. - A WEEK ON THE ROLLING DEEP? - GEORGE SUGGESTS THE RIVER. - MONTMORENCY LODGES AN OBJECTION. - ORIGINAL MOTION CARRIED BY MAJORITY OF THREE TO ONE.

THERE were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were - bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course.

We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about it. Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits of giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing; and then George said that HE had fits of giddiness too, and hardly knew what HE was doing. With me, it was my liver that was out of order. I knew it was my liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms by which a man could tell when his liver was out of order. I had them all.

Fra Three Men in a Boat av Jerome K. Jerome.

Ukens første avsnitt! - 2

Jeg har for alvor blitt fan av Terry Pratchett i år, og holder på med bok nummer fem i Discworld-serien, Sourcery. Det første avsnittet lyder som følger:

"There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. It's sad, but that's all you can say about some people.
But the eighth son grew up and married and had eight sons, and because there is only one suitable profession for the eighth son of an eighth son, he became a wizard. And he became wise and powerful, or at any rate powerful, and wore a pointed hat and there it should have ended ...
Should have ended ...
But against the Lore of Magic and certainly against all reason - except the reasons of the heart, which are warm and messy and, well, unreasonable - he fled the halls of magic and fell in love and got married, not necessarily in that order.
And he had seven sons, each one from the cradle at least as powerful as any wizard in the world.
And then he had an eighth son ...
A wizard squared. A source of magic.
A sourcerer."

Ukens første avsnitt!

Kasiopeiia har laget en ny, ukentlig bloggpost, som skal hjelpe bloggleserne å oppdage nye bøker. Konseptet går rett og slett ut på å dele det første avsnittet i boken du holder på å lese (eller eventuelt i en annen bok du mener andre bør oppdage). På denne måten kan vi få bedre kjennskap til bøkene som til en hver tid leses i bloggosfæren.

For tiden leser jeg "Captain Correlli's Mandolin" av Louis de Bernières, og den begynner slik:

"DR IANNIS HAD enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse. He had attended a surprisingly easy calving, lanced one abscess, extracted a molar, dosed one lady of easy virtue with Salversan, performed an unpleasant but spectacularly fruitful enema, and had produced a miracle by a feat of medical prestidigitation."