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chickenfeetBook Meme:
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 journal 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.
John Aubrey Brief Lives (very brief in this case)
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 journal 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.
Anno domini 1643 at the fight at Newbury, my Lord Falkland being there, and having nothing to do decided to charge; as the two armies were engaging, rode in like a madman (as he was) between them, and was (as he needs must be) shot.
John Aubrey Brief Lives (very brief in this case)
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Date: 2006-01-20 03:36 pm (UTC)Where nothing, save the waves and I,
May hear our mutual murmurs sweep;
There, swan-like, let me sing and die:
A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine -
Dash down that cup of Samian wine!
Byron, Don Juan, canto 3
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Date: 2006-01-20 03:57 pm (UTC)(Oxford-Duden German Dictionary)
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Date: 2006-01-20 03:58 pm (UTC)Charles doubted that.
I mean, honestly. That's just no fun at ALL. Bah.
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Date: 2006-01-20 04:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-20 05:35 pm (UTC)The ACTUAL sentence is even better:
I don't know.
Hurrah!
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Date: 2006-01-20 05:11 pm (UTC)- Evaluating the ROI from Learning, Paul Kearns.
This book has been sitting on my desk for three months, unread. I did read a bit before that, though.
And clearly, I spent a long time searching for a cool book!
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Date: 2006-01-20 05:13 pm (UTC)Fashionable Food
Sylvia Lovegren
I'm beside a bookshelf so I just reached out and grabbed something.
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Date: 2006-01-20 05:29 pm (UTC)I wonder what the copyright would be like!
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Date: 2006-01-20 05:55 pm (UTC)She'd asked Mr. Garvey not to report it, to give the young man another chance...
S.E. Hinton, Hawkes Harbor
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Date: 2006-01-20 05:57 pm (UTC)FROM Customers
GROUP BY UPPER(SUBSTR(First_Name,1,3)), UPPER(SUBSTR(Last_Name,1,3));
Dan Tow, 'SQL Tuning'
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Date: 2006-01-20 07:26 pm (UTC)Son of Aegeus; nor ill-governed, either;
Rather I did this thing in the opinion
That no one here would love my citizens
So tenderly as to keep them against my will ...
And surely, I thught, no one would give welcome
To an unholy man, a parricide,
A man with whom his mother had been found!
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (trans. Robt. Fitzgerald)
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Date: 2006-01-20 07:50 pm (UTC)(The book is volume 1 of the Dewey Decimal Classification, edition 20, and the "sentence" is part of the geographic classification tables)
No wonder the Psyche drain is plugged again...
Date: 2006-01-20 11:27 pm (UTC)- Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Robert Bly's 'Iron John' (1990)