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January 31, 2008
Three Sentences From Page 123
Iyov has tagged me to carry on the nearest book meme. The rules are as follows:
Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!)
Find Page 123.
Find the first 5 sentences.
Post the next 3 sentences.
Tag 5 people.
So here goes. There are three books about equal distance from my keyboard. The easiest one to reach is A Grammar of the Ugaritic Language by Daniel Sivan. Now comes the problem: The clause that begins the sixth sentence ends in a colon and the next period comes seven lines later. I will give you a sense of that sentence but will not reproduce it in all its glory. Grammars are not at all good for this kind of game. With that understanding, here are sentences six through eight.
The following are examples:w yqrb b š'al krt "and he drew near while asking [bi-ša'āli] Keret (1.14 I,37-38); l'akn 'il'ak [la'ālu-ma 'ilaku] "I will surely send" (2.30, 19-20); . . .
The following are the functions of the absolute and the construct infinitive. It is clear that in functions documented here, the infinitives of other verbal stems can also serve.
I really think I am cheating by not posting the first line completely. But you might think I'm nuts if I did.
By the time I'm selected for this kind of game the string has usually nearly run out, so if you haven't been tagged as yet, consider yourself tagged.
Now for some real fun with this meme: While I don't know when it started, I do know that it was going strong in February of 2005. I took it up then without being tagged. The text of the rules and one actual rules were different in those days.
Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
Notice, among other things, that it was only the fifth sentence that one needed to post and that there was no requirement to tag anyone. Now here we have what is surely a written tradition that has undergone significant change over time or two related written traditions that split sometime before February of 2005. Abnormally interesting.
But the way, the book that was closest at hand on February 19, 2005 was An Introduction to Human Evolutionary Anatomy by Leslie Aiello.
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I don't understand the purpose of the meme. What is achieved by posting certain 3 sentences from a book?
Posted by: Aydin at February 1, 2008 10:44 AM
Like most memes, a major purpose of this meme is to irritate whoever is tagged. So you ask, why did I participate in it? I'll tell you, I do not know.
Posted by: Duane at February 1, 2008 11:39 AM
I could reach one stack from my chair without bending my waist, or leaning. The top 5 were all field guides; insects, fish, shells (marine), reptiles and amphibian, and birds. Next down in that pile was a load of creationist crap, Don DeYoung's "Thousands not Billions" young earth BS. The rest of the books I could touch were; Hazen's OOL book "gene-e-sis," Dembski's "no free lunch," and "Intelligent Design" "The gensis Flood" by Whitcomb and Morris," Robert Sappiro's "Origins" (a favorite quote source for creationists), Carter's "Palestine Peace," the book by Darwin's great-great grandson Matt Chapman on the Dover trial "40 days and 40 nights," (excellent reading), Sean Carroll "Endless Forms Most Beutiful," on the bottom was a research design, "Historic Properties Treatment Plan for the Plannin Area 6, Phase 2 Residential Project.
The sentences from "California Insects" Powell and Hogue:
139. Mealybugs, Pseudococcus and related genera. Adults: Mealybugs are like unarmored scale insects but are usually larger (BL 2-4 mm), have well-developed legs, and are quite mobile. They are also covered with a frothy secretion of white wax and with fingerlike lateral and terminal filaments.
Posted by: Gary Hurd at February 3, 2008 11:09 AM
Duane,
The evolution of the meme just follows the rules of natutal selection: one meme evolves to a better meme.
Claude Mariottini
Posted by: Claude Mariottini at February 3, 2008 6:23 PM
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