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nnyFifth sentence meme: grab the nearest book (the actual nearest book, not the most interesting one you can find) and turn to page 161, find the fifth sentence, and post it with these instructions.
I have a number of books scattered around my desk - I've never been the tidiest of beasts - so a selection.
From 'Sociology of Religion': Ed. Roland Robertson
It has facilitated a pattern of very general socialisation - all class, regional and ecological differences notwithstanding - in which a strongly internalised sense of impersonal individual honesty has been very widely created.
Pretty dry in places, this one, but seriously interesting. I'm gonna have to find a dictionary of sociology and look up 'economic', though, 'cos it seems to be used in a couple of different ways in different readings, and I'm not sure I have them down.
From 'Neverwhere': Neil Gaiman
'The train cannot leave until the doors are all closed.'
Strangely philosophical out of context.
From 'The Penguin history of the USA': Hugh Brogan
'In their own unphilosophical way they had come to see the full, fatal implication of that abdication.'
Oh, those pesky British. I bought this because although my knowledge of English history is pretty much only a nodding acquaintance, my knowledge of anything that happened in the US is pitiful. English schooling (up to the age of 13) really doesn't cover it. I'm doing what I can to fill, or at least paper over, the huge gaps in my learnin'.
'Miss Julie': August Strindberg only goes up to about page 33...
And 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead': Tom Stoppard ends at 118. 'The Wind-up Bird Chronicles': Murakami is supporting my computer monitor, so no luck there.
*stretches in another direction*
From 'Life Among the Pirates: The romance and the reality': David Cordingly
The pirates burnt his ship and put the commander and boatswain ashore on the island of Rattan.'
...and I'm going to stop there, because the amount of books I can reach is actually embarrassing.
Guess I should tidy my room, huh?
The sun's shining fit to burst, by the way, and this is my happyface.
I have a number of books scattered around my desk - I've never been the tidiest of beasts - so a selection.
From 'Sociology of Religion': Ed. Roland Robertson
It has facilitated a pattern of very general socialisation - all class, regional and ecological differences notwithstanding - in which a strongly internalised sense of impersonal individual honesty has been very widely created.
Pretty dry in places, this one, but seriously interesting. I'm gonna have to find a dictionary of sociology and look up 'economic', though, 'cos it seems to be used in a couple of different ways in different readings, and I'm not sure I have them down.
From 'Neverwhere': Neil Gaiman
'The train cannot leave until the doors are all closed.'
Strangely philosophical out of context.
From 'The Penguin history of the USA': Hugh Brogan
'In their own unphilosophical way they had come to see the full, fatal implication of that abdication.'
Oh, those pesky British. I bought this because although my knowledge of English history is pretty much only a nodding acquaintance, my knowledge of anything that happened in the US is pitiful. English schooling (up to the age of 13) really doesn't cover it. I'm doing what I can to fill, or at least paper over, the huge gaps in my learnin'.
'Miss Julie': August Strindberg only goes up to about page 33...
And 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead': Tom Stoppard ends at 118. 'The Wind-up Bird Chronicles': Murakami is supporting my computer monitor, so no luck there.
*stretches in another direction*
From 'Life Among the Pirates: The romance and the reality': David Cordingly
The pirates burnt his ship and put the commander and boatswain ashore on the island of Rattan.'
...and I'm going to stop there, because the amount of books I can reach is actually embarrassing.
Guess I should tidy my room, huh?
The sun's shining fit to burst, by the way, and this is my happyface.
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Date: 2007-04-21 03:36 pm (UTC)OH! And also a book called Lies My Teacher Told Me which is all about how American History is flawed by who tells it. It's an amazing book that I can't recommend highly enough.
And then there's my overwhelming fascination with Bill Bryson....
You uh...you weren't asking for book recs here, and yet...um...I'll...I'll just go...
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Date: 2007-04-22 04:55 am (UTC)"Do you have the Talent, Damoselle?"
(Murder & Magic, the Lord Darcy 3-in-1 volume, by Randall Garrett)