Book meme

[chickenfeet]

Book 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.

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)

Comments

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

Place me on Sunium's marbled steep
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

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I misread the first line as "marbled sheep". Clearly I'm under the influence of f4f3

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

And this was the nearest book to hand? Ha!

[lemur-man.livejournal.com]

der Witz hat (so) einen [Bart]

(Oxford-Duden German Dictionary)

[vonpookie.livejournal.com]

Mine's nowhere *near* interesting:

Charles doubted that.


I mean, honestly. That's just no fun at ALL. Bah.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I think it has enormouse potential!

[vonpookie.livejournal.com]

Actually, I miscounted. I just picked up the book to read during my lunch and decided to have another look.

The ACTUAL sentence is even better:

I don't know.

Hurrah!

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Anyone who had seen Laxman make batting look the easiest thing in the world had no idea what was going on.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

The new Wisden?

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Well, it's getting fairly old and battered by now.

[badasstronaut.livejournal.com]

This rarely results in any good practice being picked up and embedded outside the home department.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

"In effect, it is just a thinly veiled attempt to undermine the subject by trying to pick holes in it."

- 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!

[lilactime.livejournal.com]

"One hearty low-point meat dish that could be served to the family without qualms - at least so long as the squeamish ones didn't know what was in it - was the following casserole made with lamb necks."

Fashionable Food
Sylvia Lovegren

I'm beside a bookshelf so I just reached out and grabbed something.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

You know, I think you should wait until you get a load of single lines, then stitch them together. An accidental book, perhaps.

I wonder what the copyright would be like!

[parisbaby-2003.livejournal.com]

Being at work, I have very few choices on which book to choose, so a little popular fiction from a childhood-remembered author:

She'd asked Mr. Garvey not to report it, to give the young man another chance...

S.E. Hinton, Hawkes Harbor

[(Anonymous)]

SELECT SUM(COUNT(*)*COUNT(*))/(SUM(COUNT(*))*SUM(COUNT(*))) A1
FROM Customers
GROUP BY UPPER(SUBSTR(First_Name,1,3)), UPPER(SUBSTR(Last_Name,1,3));

Dan Tow, 'SQL Tuning'

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

It was not that I thought this state unmanly,
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)

[thidwick.livejournal.com]

__494 57 Zurich Class here works on Zurich

(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...

[lemur-catta.livejournal.com]

"Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primative being covered with hair down to his feet."

- Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Robert Bly's 'Iron John' (1990)