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June 21, 2004 at 07:45 am
Book Meme...
Here’s something fun for us all to take part in…
Devised by The Thinkling (here):
1. Grab the closest book.Here’s mine, From Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver: “Daniel Waterhouse does not own slaves.”
2. Turn to page 64.
3. Find third complete sentence.
4. Print sentence in comments here or on your own site (a trackback would be nice).
(Via John Adams.)
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Comments (5)
Nice one. I’ll be picking this up!
» Comment by Richard Hall () (URL), on June 21, 2004 at 10:06 am
From A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving:
“They would bury him in sawdust and lose him; they’d never find him.”
“They would bury him in sawdust and lose him; they’d never find him.”
» Comment by Shepcat () (URL), on June 21, 2004 at 12:15 pm
Since the closest book (John Oswalt’s commentary on Isaiah, vol.1) had no complete sentences on p.64, I went to the next book (Philosophy of Religion, ed. William Lane Craig), and it’s pretty boring. “In considering this question I wish to proceed more cautiously than I did in my previous paper.”
The next closest book (Reason and Responsibility, ed. Joel Feinberg) has Hume’s “Or how can order proceed from that which does not perceive that order which it bestows?” Now we’re getting somewhere!
The next closest book (Reason and Responsibility, ed. Joel Feinberg) has Hume’s “Or how can order proceed from that which does not perceive that order which it bestows?” Now we’re getting somewhere!
» Comment by Jeremy Pierce () (URL), on June 21, 2004 at 2:07 pm
Shep, well how can you go wrong with John Irving?!
Jeremy, I love both of those lines… Too cool! :)
Jeremy, I love both of those lines… Too cool! :)
» Comment by timsamoff () (URL), on June 21, 2004 at 2:48 pm
“It molds and builds the personality, orders one’s life, regulates one’s conduct, shows one what one should do and what one should leave undone, sits at the helm and keeps one on the correct course as one is tossed about in perilous seas” — Seneca, Letters from a Stoic. The “it” in question is philosophy.
» Comment by wheat () (URL), on June 21, 2004 at 10:00 pm