Literary meme
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nonniemous this time.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the nextfour few sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest. (Since I am at work, I could have turned to the right to the bookcase there -- hmmm, all catalogs and computer manuals, except for some religious tomes on top -- this *is* a department of religious studies, after all -- that are inaccessible due to the clutter of unwashed tea mugs in front of them. So turning to the left, there's my personal bookcase and tea caddy -- grabbed the first book there. Oops, page 123 is a blank section divider -- hope nobody minds that I skipped to page 125!)
"I was perturbed. I had never expected that an untouchable family with an introduction from no less a man than Thakkar Bapa would so soon be seeking admission to the Ashram. I shared the letter with my companions. They welcomed it."
The Gandhi Reader: A Source Book of His Life and Writings, edited by Homer A. Jack. I grabbed this from the piles of old give-away books after a clean-out of the department library last summer; have never read it. I'll have to give it a try -- it seems very readable. And Gandhi! *hero worship*
See how much good a simple meme can do in the world??
nonniemous this time. 1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest. (Since I am at work, I could have turned to the right to the bookcase there -- hmmm, all catalogs and computer manuals, except for some religious tomes on top -- this *is* a department of religious studies, after all -- that are inaccessible due to the clutter of unwashed tea mugs in front of them. So turning to the left, there's my personal bookcase and tea caddy -- grabbed the first book there. Oops, page 123 is a blank section divider -- hope nobody minds that I skipped to page 125!)
"I was perturbed. I had never expected that an untouchable family with an introduction from no less a man than Thakkar Bapa would so soon be seeking admission to the Ashram. I shared the letter with my companions. They welcomed it."
The Gandhi Reader: A Source Book of His Life and Writings, edited by Homer A. Jack. I grabbed this from the piles of old give-away books after a clean-out of the department library last summer; have never read it. I'll have to give it a try -- it seems very readable. And Gandhi! *hero worship*
See how much good a simple meme can do in the world??
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Date: March 8th, 2008 04:13 pm (UTC)"Yes, you'd better. We must not allow Levy Pants to fall behind in the struggle for the survival of the fittest."
Ignatius bit into his first sandwich, tearing it in half, and chewed contentedly for a while.
From A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
*goes off to post this meme on my own LJ*