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[maribou]

ganked from crowyhead - I've done this meme before but it always amuses me and the book is different every time ...

1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.

They did. Van had Mayor McCheese and Felix used Smurfette. They skipped around the chat channels until they found one with some familiar handles.

(from "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth," by Cory Doctorow, anthologized in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, which is edited by John Joseph Adams and pretty awesome so far though I'm only two stories in.)

Comments

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

Mine, of course, is no surprise at the moment.

Most hikers will want to make the 0.9-mile trek down to this lake's relatively warm waters, for the next PCT campsite with near-water access is the sometimes-overcrowded Tolo Camp, 6.2 miles farther. The lake's shore has abundant space for camping, though until early August a tent is necessary to provide refuge from myriad mosquitoes.

From the PCT's crossing of the Maidu Lake Trail, you can also start south on this trail, which winds 2.0 miles down to Miller Lake Trail 2725, which you can then follow 0.8 mile south over to the Digit Point Campground.

- Pacific Crest Trail: Oregon & Washington, Jeffrey P. Schaffer and Andy Selters, Wilderness Press

[greydruid.livejournal.com]

My page 123 only HAS five sentences, so I guess I post the first three on the next page.

In My freshman year of college, I lived with a woman. It was 1968, I was eighteen. We slept on a sagging couch in a room I rented off campus.

ERNEST HEMMINGWAY FTW

[raisinbottom.livejournal.com]

I had an exemplary breakfast. Bacon roused my spirits and I slugged the old ball and chain for burning my toast. Now my fingers smell like Gertrude Stein.

[celestialmaven.livejournal.com]

By 'intuition' I understand, not the changing testimony of the senses or the false judgment of an imagination when it composes images badly, but the conception of a pure and attentive mind that is so easy and so distinct that no doubt remains subsequently about what we understand; or, what is the same thing, the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind which arises from the light of reason alone, and which is more certain that deduction because it is simpler - though we noted above that even human beings cannot perform a deduction poorly.

Descartes - Discourse on Method

[gement.livejournal.com]

I'm reading The Leather Daddy and the Femme by Carol Queen, and while you're almost certainly ready to cope with that three sentences, I don't know the rest of your friends-list well enough, so I'll abstain.

Unlike the people in the sentences. Who number four. In three sentences.

It's an excellent book.

[maribou]

Not a surprise at all!:)

[maribou]

So what's it from?

Re: ERNEST HEMMINGWAY FTW

[maribou]

Heh. Is that faux hemingway?

[maribou]

I should cut Descartes more slack ... he really CARED about these things, at least.

[maribou]

I have been chuckling over this comment since yesterday.

Re: ERNEST HEMMINGWAY FTW

[raisinbottom.livejournal.com]

Yes.
Yes it is.

[greydruid.livejournal.com]

Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories

[maribou]

ooo, I love those kinds of books.

[greydruid.livejournal.com]

The first one is by Samuel R Delaney, who explains that "Coming Out" used to mean something other than what it means today. A few of the early stories are more about that definition. I'm not even halfway through with it.