Julie needs memes
1.Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence here in a comment and on your own blog along with directions.
(Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Go with what is actually closest to you)
I'll start:
"You cannot know for sure that anything is real." - from Wish You Were Here by Nick Webb
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence here in a comment and on your own blog along with directions.
(Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Go with what is actually closest to you)
I'll start:
"You cannot know for sure that anything is real." - from Wish You Were Here by Nick Webb
posted by K-Lyn @ 9:29 PM
6 Comments:
At 12:07 PM,
Courtney said…
"But as a homeowner and family man he also evinced genuine concern about the reputation of the area."
From Long's "The Great Southern Babylon." Teaches me that I need to learn to use the word "evince" if I want to get published.
At 12:07 PM,
Courtney said…
Oh, and "Julie needs Memes" reminds me way too much of "Elvis needs Boats"
At 3:47 PM,
Julie said…
Thank you for the meme!
"It's your unalienable right as a woman with a gay boyfriend to expect that I'll get out the martini shaker when you're sad, and together we'll plot a fitting revenge against the scum-sucking bastard who made you sad."
- Behind Every Great Woman There's a Fabulous Gay Man by Dave Singleton
more details to appear soon on my blog...
At 4:33 PM,
Neel Mehta said…
Mars needs women.
I don't do memes, but this is for Julie, so I'll contribute.
"Unintended water" means water that passes beyond, around, or through a component or the material that is designed to prevent that passage.
Courtesy of the Standard California Codes, 2006 edition.
At 4:51 PM,
Julie said…
Amanda, here's an answer for your meme question.
From Iampariah.com
"In Blogspeak, a meme is an idea that is shared and passed from blog to blog, like a question posted in one blog and answered in many other blogs"
I too had trouble with typos but it was mostly from just holding the small book in one hand and typing with the other.
May I ask what the title of your book is?
N: Aww. Thanks.
At 1:07 AM,
burnowt said…
I tried this without intending to reply, but loved how absurd this sentence was:
"The U.S.S. Millicent Kent told Mario that though she was an admittedly great player, w/ an overwhelming haul-ass-up-to-the-net-and-loom-over-it-like-a-titan game in the Betty Stove/Venus Williams power-game tradition, and headed for an almost limitless future in the Show, she'd confide in him in private out here that she'd never really loved competitive tennis, that her real love and passion was modern interpretive dance, at which she admittedly had less unconciously native gifts and talents to bring to bear, but which she loved, and had spent just about all her off-court time as a little girl practicing in a leotard in front of a double-width mirror in her room at home in suburban Montclair NJ, but that tennis was what she had limitless talent at and got emotional strokes and tuition-waiver boarding-school offers in, and that she'd been desperate to get into a boarding school."
No, it's not Ron Brown, but David Foster Wallace. Trust me, he's a terrific writer, but he's in novel mode here writing in the voice of a teenage girl. The novel's "Infinite Jest".
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