Bibliomancy/Memery
Posted on April 16, 2004 @ 15:14 in Blogosphere
Alex points to a fun meme on Long Story Short Pier. Here's what you do:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open the book to page 23.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
Okay, the nearest novel:
"To get up there Sophia would have to step onto his bateau lit and reach up" (Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Felaheen: The Third Arabesk).
The nearest scientific book:
"In Saussure, it is as if speakers had attempted to arrogate to themselves the godlike abilities and prerogatives of linguists, but more important than Saussure's denigration of the speaker's understanding of language is his claim that only by studying the logic of Lucifer can linguistics become a science" (Stephen A. Tyler, The Unspeakable: Discourse, Dialogue, and Rhetoric in the Postmodern World).
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Interesting result when you see this as you're busy reading a dutch dishwasher manual. Hahaha...
Posted by Tempus Tommy on April 20, 2004 @ 20:00
"Na een mislukking in 1875 (de stoomboot verging in de Vliesloot), kwam in 1883 de Stoomboot Reederij Terschelling."
(Veer- en bootdiensten in Nederland by, yes!, W.J.J. Boot)
Thankfully it was only page 23 as this lovely tome has no page numbers...
Posted by Arjan on April 21, 2004 @ 14:09
Hahaha - and this is supposed to be "fortune telling", Arjan?
By the way - mine came up with "Turbo drogen"...I wonder what secrets lie in my future...Posted by Tempus Tommy on April 21, 2004 @ 15:03
Didn't old Ferdinand write an awful lot of rubbish.
Posted by jo on June 08, 2004 @ 09:35
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