Teaser Tuesday - 24th January

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

Although he was drunk by this time, Bataille managed to work out that the final number of devils and she-devils totalled fourty-four million, four hundred and thirty-five thousand five hundred and fifty six. We checked his calculation, admitting with surprise that he was right, while he banged his fist on the table and shouted, ``You see then, I'm not drunk!'' And then he was so pleased with himself that he slid under the table.

A final taster of Umberto Eco's The Prague Cemetery - a study of conspiracies and paranoia! (I've very glad my random page wasn't 365 where there's a 16 line sentence full of obscure proper nouns!)

You will turn off your mobile

won't you? - on entering a shopping centre.

Initals RC

If only Robert Duncan's final name began with a C... I'm just (re-)reading Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum and am currently around chapter 80 where Eco describes a Templar plot to gain power and find the Umbilicus of the world which involves getting the Sun's rays to strike foucault's pendulum if it is swung in the correct time/place - currently hypothesised to be Jerusalem in June. Gafcon happens to be meeting in Jerusalem in June (a sort of preempting of Lambeth). I nearly fell out of bed when I got to these chapters last night - let conspiracy theories reign!
Unfortunately Gafcon is down to finish before the critical date of the 24th (though I suppose those who aren't invited to Lambeth might stay on) and I can't think of any of the Gafcon gang with the initials RC (also important - Rosa Crucians, Rick of Casablanca, Cardinal Richelieu backwards...)