Meme-ness

[icarus]

Borrowed from teaphile:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
6. Tag five other people to do the same.

A Guide To The Bodhisattva's Way Of Life
By Shantideva

With folded hands I beseech
The conquerers who wish to pass away,
To please remain for countless aeons
And not to leave the world in darkness.

That really is the book next to the computer.

Your turn.

Comments

[cyanei.livejournal.com]

The only book next to my computer is my lyrics notebook. Page 23 only has one line: what does it mean? and it is the last page. Page 22's fifth line is i'll write you paragraphs, you'll write my sentance, though.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

"But, my friend, they are only deuces."
"Pair, two pair, three of a kind, straight flush, full house, four of a kind, straight flush," I repeated for at least the twelfth time. "All right, everybody in?"

Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God</> by Jonah Blank.

[an-kayoh.livejournal.com]

Three books and a dvd next to my computer, I chose the middle book.

He talked talked her through the hallway with its high ceiling. He pointed out the original moldings on the ceiling to take her eyes off the bicycles clogging the hallway. He showed her the gentle curves of the stairs, and made no mention of the rotting flooboards. --Tara Road, by Maeve Binchy

[fullygoldy.livejournal.com]

I did this one last year, so I'll only post here this time:

Share the Care (How to Organize a Group to Care for Someone Who is Seriously Ill) by Cappy Capossela and Sheila Warnock

She argued with Dr. Miller for months, and her arguments wer good ones. She was so exhausted by having to cope with her stressful job as well as her csncer that she had lost touch with a lot of her friends. She ws sure the people she knew wouldn't want to do it.

[fullygoldy.livejournal.com]

and apparently, my "a" key is having as much trouble as my shift key today - maybe it's time for a cleaning.

[stentoriansista.livejournal.com]

"You'd have had my arm off." "Well, you'd have had my head," I replied. "Did I hurt you?"

-Kushiel's Scion, Jacqueline Carey.

(I'm trying to recover from my meta-folklore class reading with some courtly intrigue and sword fighting.)

[jackoweskla.livejournal.com]

I've said it before, page 23 is not far enough along to get anything interesting:

"And in the evening the ordinary daily service is held. This manner of service is then observed every day throughout the year, certain solemn days excepted. But among all these details this is very plain, that suitable psalms or antiphons are always song; those at night, those in the morning, and those through the day, whether at the sixth hour or ninth hour or at vespers, being always suitable and intelligible as pertaining to the matter oat hand."

"Music in the Christian Churches of Jerusalem, c. AD 400", from Music in the Western World: A History in Documents, compiled by Weiss and Taruskin.

Mmmm, schoolbooks.

[greenling.livejournal.com]

"The difficulties of the Ottoman Empire were not only military and political: even more important, the empire that had once occupied a central position at the crossroads of world trade, linking three continents and controlling the eastern Mediterranean, found itself increasingly marginalized in the economy of the colonial world order."

Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture, Matthias B. Lehmann.

I got me a paper to write, on the history of Ladino. :B

[mad_maudlin]

-Well, hello, boys. I've been waiting for you to show up.

-I'm positive, I USE this map that Lefty gave me before he left.

-This is it. This is what GIVE me trouble for the past week.

From Tense Situations: Tenses in Contrast and Context. It's for my ESL class.

[enname.livejournal.com]

Page 23 of Raymond of Moneta's 'Summa against the Cathars' in 'Heresies of the High Middle Ages' edited by W. Wakefield and A. Evans.

They also believe that just as flesh by coition is born of flesh so is spirit procreated from spirit. For they say that the spirit of Adam which was a heavenly angel, came by God's command to see how Lucifer had divided the elements and had made from them the external forms of things before there was man on earth. Lucifer seized the angel and shut him in a fleshly body as in a prison, saying to him: "Pay what thou owest," meaning, Subject yourself to human flesh.

I think he is outlining what the Cathari believed to be the story of creation.

[ansku]

You know, every single time I've stumbled across this meme the closest book has been in Finnish. Now it's in Swedish :D I doubt anyone would understand anything if I posted it...

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Give a rough translation. ^.^

[ansku]

Uhh...

'He had barely turned three when she left him, but the bone ridges over his eyes had been well developed. They had belied he was of the Clan, but his forehead had resembled this child's. Neither of them had a flat and back-sloping forehead like those who fully belonged to the Clan, but a high and curved one like her own.'

I'm thinking I didn't manage to translate it back quite right :)
The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. Auel would be the original, but I've only ever read it in Finnish and Swedish.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's cool. I usually don't know what to say about three out of context sentences in books I've never heard of, but this sounds like something I would read.

Er. Should I ever learn Finnish.

Icarus

[fullygoldy.livejournal.com]

The book was actually written in English, and is third in a series :)
I liked the first two pretty well and would recommend them, but the third started getting on my nerves, and 4 & 5 were "meh." IF 6 ever gets published, I'll probably skip it.

[ansku]

Yeah, the first two were way better than the rest, although I like the fourth one better than the third. Fifth is so short I hardly even recognized it and I've only read it once so I don't remember it that well. Anyway, that's why this one was the book next to me, I was trying to brush up my Swedish but just got stuck 75 pages in :) I read so slowly in Swedish it will take *ages* to get past some of the more annoying parts, I just can't do that to myself right now :D Even if I know there are parts I like very much as well...

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Ah. Interesting, thank you.

[ansku]

The books were explained already, but just as an afterthought - never try to learn Finnish :) It's only for masochists and those who have way too much time on their hands, we do absolutely insane things to our words and there are so many exceptions to the rules (of which there are gazillions) that it can make macho men cry :) I have much respect to anyone not native who manages to learn it, and I still think they are crazy to even try :D

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

If you're coping well it's fun, and if you don't feel you're coping they should be both sympathetic and helpful. These nurses see a lot of babies, and most of them are a real encyclopedia of reassuring, indispensible baby knowledge. They're an on-tap reality check.

-Kaz Cooke, Kid Wrangling, Part 1: BABIES, Your support team: mother-and-baby health-centre nurses.


The closest book was actually the Concise Oxford Russian Dictionary, but I can't be arsed typing in cyrillic and it's not exactly in sentences. If you're interested, the fifth line down was the Russian word for 'cooper', then 'barrel' and 'sideways'.