Tuesday
Jan132009
A Meme. Really? Really.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 11:33PM
Sometimes, a person can have so much to say that they don't know where to start.
Words jumble up in your head because the ideas brewing there are too big to express. And you don't want to scare people.
Devoting evenings to a wayward and forgotten soldier in the vanquished army of a short lived nation of rebels will do that to you.
Thank goodness for memes.
I got this meme from whall. I like it because it's short and not overly personal.
Not that I have a problem being personal. It's just that, well, I'm not sure everyone really cares about whether I like blue cheese salad dressing or not. (Not, by the way.)
My results?
The Mind of the South, W. J. Cash:
Yeah. Actually working on my thesis. Which explains that.
I'd love to see your results. T.V. Guide totally counts as a book.
Words jumble up in your head because the ideas brewing there are too big to express. And you don't want to scare people.
Devoting evenings to a wayward and forgotten soldier in the vanquished army of a short lived nation of rebels will do that to you.
Thank goodness for memes.
I got this meme from whall. I like it because it's short and not overly personal.
Not that I have a problem being personal. It's just that, well, I'm not sure everyone really cares about whether I like blue cheese salad dressing or not. (Not, by the way.)
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open it to page 56.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
- Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
My results?
The Mind of the South, W. J. Cash:
"The God demanded was an anthropomorphic God -- the Jehovah of the Old Testament: a God who might be seen, a God who had been seen."
Yeah. Actually working on my thesis. Which explains that.
I'd love to see your results. T.V. Guide totally counts as a book.
Reader Comments (18)
I love memes/quizes too! It's like a writer's block break.
This is a good one. A little bit more intellectual than "7 weird facts about you" or the "movie meme", which are still fun, this one is just different. I may steal it.
Unfortunately page 56 is a graph.
(did it just eat my comment or are you moderating? Let's try this again...)
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unfortunately page 56 is a graph.
Hey - this is whall, and you've prompted me to re-do this meme, but in this comment.
Closest thing to me at the moment is the March 2008 issue of 'the absolute sound' magazine.
Here 'tis:
The magnetic repulsion supplies the lift.
hmm. I guess this is a good time to look at a meme I actually CREATED vs just used.
http://whall.org/blog/2008/01/21/divination-meme/
It's a Divination Meme. It tells the future. Kinda.
I know I'm not following the directions, really, but this seemed like fun.
"Likewise the watch factory on Laupenstrasse, the mill past the Nydegg Bridge."
- from Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman
"Experiments are now underway to grow a new strain of bacterium that feeds only on dead flesh."
- The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
Hmmm--okay -first instinct is to get up and go get the "right book" find something that feels like the "right thing to post" but because this is meme, I am flipping to page 56 of my State Exam Prep Course for Real Estate Brokers and finding the 5th sentance and . . . here it is:
Economic Depreciation: Loss of value due to physical deterioration, functional obsolescence, or environmental change; (see section on Appraising)
. . . you have no idea in how many different levels of my life this is sooooo applicable at this exact moment! One short, sweet sentence to sum up my entire existence---freaky!
"These keys act like arrow keys some of the time, and you can type numbers with them the rest of the time."
I am at work and the closest book is Word Perfect for Windows for Dummies. I had never seen it here before and I have been here for more than 6 years. We never throw anything away.
One dark night we sailed through a patch of sea so phosphorescent that it looked as though a large quantity of luminous paint had been spilt there; it's boundaries were clearly defined, and we judge it to measure 300 feet by 80.
From Around The World In Wandere III, by Eric Hiscock.
I never realised how long winded he is until doing this mimi and finding the 5th sentence 2/3's the way down the page.
"A lot of talent in one family."
Yeah, I'm reading a trashy Nora Roberts novel right now- "The Hollow"
Very simple language.
xo
The only book I have here at work that even HAS a page 56 is the dictionary, so here's the fifth word:
expend, vt. To spend; to use or consume, to waste.
Gee, I'm expending time at work reading your blog, aren't I? This dictionary is as smart as my iPod.
OK. Closest book to me. That would be... "How My Breasts Saved the World: Misadventures of a Nursing Mother."
Seriously.
Page 56, fifth sentence:
"Instead I was told Sophie was an efficient and good eater and if anything I was overproducing milk, one of the better problems to have."
And now all of your male readers have run screaming from their computer screens.
You're welcome.
[...] [...]
"If left exposed to the air, the CuSO4 will absorb moisture and form blue CuSO4-5H2O again."
Ahem. Let me just point out that I am not reading that for fun it's my Chemistry textbook. That I actually haven't started reading yet.
Okay, not quite following directions either, but this is funny..
'But he cheered up quickly, for he knew that Fernando Poo would be equipped at least with a bevy of tawny-skinned or coffee-colored females, and such women were the Holy Grail to him.'
The Illuminatus! Robert Shea dn Robert Anton Wilson
If your trading mentor convinces you to sell a stock, and the next day it doubles, don't rant and rave....you clicked on the "sell" button.
whoa. out of context, my sentence is really boring:
All that because a few small plants whose dangers were mostly unappreciated at the time, and some of whose seeds arrived unnoticed! - http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Societies-Choose-Fail-Succeed/dp/0143036556/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232152709&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond
but if you read the whole book? fascinating (at least so far)!
"The large, dark figure silhouetted against the swiftly growing night did not reply."
-- Far-Seer, by Robert J. Sawyer