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

[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