Book meme, courtesy darcydodo

[compilerbitch]

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.

Comments

[galliana.livejournal.com]

I rather like the last sentence, too.

[casby.livejournal.com]

The thoughts which I publish in what follows are the precipitate of philosophical investigations which have occupied me for the last sixteen years. But if we are not permitted to take Jade Shadow, then how are we to get anywhere? With large whales, this is usually true. At this moment, sensei stood fearfully still and peered at the dog with his left eye. But that is another but not all that different story.

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

[cassielalone.livejournal.com]

This sounds like fun...

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)