when time collapses
1. Take the nearest five thick books. If you don't have five thick books near you, go to the bookshelf. If you're too lazy to do that, use fewer than five.
1a. None of the Harry Potter books are allowed, however. Anyone doing that will have a week's detention with Snape, and it won't be that sort of detention. It will involve scrubbing cauldrons and pickling pig foetuses.
2. Turn to page 394.
3. Take the second sentence on that page of each book.
4. Arrange the sentences to form as coherent a story as possible.
5. Post your wacky tale in your LJ with these instructions.
O Sacred, Wise, and Wisdom-giving Plant,
Mother of Science, now I feel thy Power
within me clear, not only to discern
things in thir Causes, but to trace the ways
of highest Agents, deem'd however wise.
He will go down to the Abyss of the Underworld. That this was indeed the principal aspect in which Adonis presented himself in later times to the agricultural peoples of the Levant may be admitted; but whether from the beginning he had been the corn, and nothing but the corn, may be doubted. Now, this means the same as that among outer experiences we can never encounter thinking beings, as such; or that we cannot externally intuit their thoughts, their consciousness, their desires, etc., for all of this belongs to inner sense. It was smooth, as smooth as a bird's breast.
la biblioteca:
John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose, ed. Merritt Hughes
The Nag Hammadi Library, ed. James M. Robinson, et. al.
The Golden Bough, Sir James George Frazer
Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, ed. Ilan Stavans
courtesy of anubis75
1a. None of the Harry Potter books are allowed, however. Anyone doing that will have a week's detention with Snape, and it won't be that sort of detention. It will involve scrubbing cauldrons and pickling pig foetuses.
2. Turn to page 394.
3. Take the second sentence on that page of each book.
4. Arrange the sentences to form as coherent a story as possible.
5. Post your wacky tale in your LJ with these instructions.
O Sacred, Wise, and Wisdom-giving Plant,
Mother of Science, now I feel thy Power
within me clear, not only to discern
things in thir Causes, but to trace the ways
of highest Agents, deem'd however wise.
He will go down to the Abyss of the Underworld. That this was indeed the principal aspect in which Adonis presented himself in later times to the agricultural peoples of the Levant may be admitted; but whether from the beginning he had been the corn, and nothing but the corn, may be doubted. Now, this means the same as that among outer experiences we can never encounter thinking beings, as such; or that we cannot externally intuit their thoughts, their consciousness, their desires, etc., for all of this belongs to inner sense. It was smooth, as smooth as a bird's breast.
la biblioteca:
John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose, ed. Merritt Hughes
The Nag Hammadi Library, ed. James M. Robinson, et. al.
The Golden Bough, Sir James George Frazer
Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, ed. Ilan Stavans
courtesy of anubis75