Meme

[drplokta]

(Gacked from fjm.)

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your own bulletin...along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

"Our civilization grows too brilliant to brush its own teeth."

From To Crush The Moon by Wil McCarthy.

Comments

Heh.

[ang-grrr.livejournal.com]

"I am treating a mother as a machine programmed to do everything in its power to propagate copies of the genes which ride inside it."

Your meme post earlier in the week means I've got my copy of The Selfish Gene next to the PC.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

"Complete with 2 adaptors, GL45 and Winchester"

From Scientific and Chemical Education catalogue 2005

Wisdom for the ages, I think...

[darth-tigger.livejournal.com]

"Lie face down on the leg curl machine and hook your heels under the roller pad."

From Commando Workout by Simon Waterson.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Put some data in the range B1:C5

It's probably more exciting if one isn't at work....

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

It doesn't help that the nearest book is the C++ Standard, and page 123 contains a code sample immediately after the first sentence. So, the fourth comment:

// calls B::f(char)

[johannes-d.livejournal.com]

Yet Boro has its partisans.

It's odd how these sentences out of context seem to have a depth of meaning out of all proportion to the impact in the book. This one is from SPOKEN HERE by Mark Abley a book about threatened languages.

From "How Children Learn" by John Holt

[hunkymouse.livejournal.com]

"From the two main branches so obtained, she drew several smaller branches, which she began to cover with leaves."