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1. take five books off your bookshelf.
2. book #1 -- first sentence
3. book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty
4. book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. book #5 -- final sentence of the book
7. make the five sentences into a paragraph
Books used:
1. Evolutionary design by Computers, PJ Bentley
2. Zodiac, Neal Stephenson
3. 30 minute vegetarian Indian cookbook, Mridula Baljekar
4. Teach yourself Russian, Daphne, M. West
5. The Queen's Conjuror, Benjamin Wooley
What might Charles Darwin have done if he had had a computer at his disposal? That was when Tom and I took off on one of the other Zodes. 3 tablespoons, sunflower or soya oil. Kagda Misha napishyet pismo mamye? Our own age need not begin congratulating itself on its freedom from superstition till it defeats a more dangerous temptation to despair.
Hmm... very strange. Says a lot about my taste in books, but I do rather like the last sentence.
2. book #1 -- first sentence
3. book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty
4. book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. book #5 -- final sentence of the book
7. make the five sentences into a paragraph
Books used:
1. Evolutionary design by Computers, PJ Bentley
2. Zodiac, Neal Stephenson
3. 30 minute vegetarian Indian cookbook, Mridula Baljekar
4. Teach yourself Russian, Daphne, M. West
5. The Queen's Conjuror, Benjamin Wooley
What might Charles Darwin have done if he had had a computer at his disposal? That was when Tom and I took off on one of the other Zodes. 3 tablespoons, sunflower or soya oil. Kagda Misha napishyet pismo mamye? Our own age need not begin congratulating itself on its freedom from superstition till it defeats a more dangerous temptation to despair.
Hmm... very strange. Says a lot about my taste in books, but I do rather like the last sentence.
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Date: 2004-05-22 12:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-22 09:58 pm (UTC)Books were: Philosophical Investigations, Star Wars New Jedi Order: Reunion, Whales and Dolphins, Essence of Ninjutsu, and On Liberty.
Oh the sillines!
Casby the silly ghost
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Date: 2004-05-23 04:19 am (UTC)... and would like to grab it tonight, if that's OK. (Bit important, since it had *everything* in it, railcard, money, phone, work pass, etc.)
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Date: 2004-05-26 04:57 am (UTC)In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost. The frame bears suitable biblical texts relating to work. The visible world, with all its teeming creatures, is none other than the world transpired. Des Esseintes musings had reached this pont when the silvery sound of a bell tinkling a little angelus told him that breakfast was ready. Adrian laughed and turned back into the room.
-_- Oh my.
Ofcourse this oddity might have something to do with the randomness of the books that was used: 1. The Inferno of Dante Alighieri, 2. The Pre-Raphaelites (Christopher Wood), 3. Alchemy and Mysticism (Alexander Roob), 4. A'Rebours (Huysmans), 5.The Liar (Stephen Fry)