Book sentence meme from wellinghall
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
I had to use the third nearest book, because neither of the nearest had a page 56:
"In fact they do not look anything like foxes."
From Stephen Harris and Phil Baker, Urban foxes. New edition, Stowmarket 2001.
Alternatively you can have page 556 of my nearest book, which starts at p. 539. (The second nearest book has neither page numbers nor sentences, being a collection of architectural plates.)
"Included with the 30th livraison moreover was a detailed memorandum reviewing the current state of the Encyclopédie, the unforeseen extent of the imperfections of the original edition, and the consequent inadequacy of the old prospectus both in terms of the amount of space it had allocated to each subject, and because of the number of subjects it had omitted altogether."
From British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects, Early printed books 1478--1840: catalogue of the British Architectural Library Early Imprints Collection. Volume 2: E--L, compiled by Nicholas Savage, Alison Shell, Paul W. Nash, Gerard Beasley and John Meriton Coast. München 2003.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
I had to use the third nearest book, because neither of the nearest had a page 56:
"In fact they do not look anything like foxes."
From Stephen Harris and Phil Baker, Urban foxes. New edition, Stowmarket 2001.
Alternatively you can have page 556 of my nearest book, which starts at p. 539. (The second nearest book has neither page numbers nor sentences, being a collection of architectural plates.)
"Included with the 30th livraison moreover was a detailed memorandum reviewing the current state of the Encyclopédie, the unforeseen extent of the imperfections of the original edition, and the consequent inadequacy of the old prospectus both in terms of the amount of space it had allocated to each subject, and because of the number of subjects it had omitted altogether."
From British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects, Early printed books 1478--1840: catalogue of the British Architectural Library Early Imprints Collection. Volume 2: E--L, compiled by Nicholas Savage, Alison Shell, Paul W. Nash, Gerard Beasley and John Meriton Coast. München 2003.