Here’s something fun for us all to take part in…
Devised by The Thinkling (here). My link via John Adams (here):
1. Grab the closest book. 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). |
Here’s mine, From Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver: “Daniel Waterhouse does not own slaves.”
Posted by timsamoff at June 21, 2004 07:45 AM | TrackBack (0)Nice one. I'll be picking this up!
Posted by: Richard Hall at June 21, 2004 10:06 AMFrom *A Prayer for Owen Meany* by John Irving:
"They would bury him in sawdust and lose him; they'd never find him."
Posted by: Shepcat at June 21, 2004 12:15 PMSince 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!
Posted by: Jeremy Pierce at June 21, 2004 02:07 PMShep, well how can you go wrong with John Irving?!
Jeremy, I love both of those lines... Too cool! :)
"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.
Posted by: wheat at June 21, 2004 10:00 PM