The instructions are: Grab the nearest book, open it to page 23, find the 5th sentence, post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
The disappearance of the original Jesuit missionaries was transformed from a tragic mystery into an ugly scandal: violence, murder and prostitution, doled out in teasing, skin-crawling doses. *
* I feel obligated to say that the nearest book happened to be a work of fiction.
Tags: Books
May 3rd, 2004 at 9:56 pm
the sparrow!
May 3rd, 2004 at 9:58 pm
“Inside, he looked up, saw the life in the girl’s eyes, and wished– no, longed for someone, Richard, anyone to enjoy the painting with him.”
May 4th, 2004 at 11:03 am
“On no account will sadhus and orthodox Jains eat leftover food — as it would invariably contain more bacteria and more micro-organisms that it would be bad form and bad karma to ingest.”
I’ve seen a variant of this meme elsewhere that I may post to my blog — it creates a kind of exquisite corpse.
May 4th, 2004 at 2:33 pm
Pictures have been shot with xwd and converted with convert (from the ImageMagick package).
May 11th, 2004 at 10:24 pm
“We,” she said, and cast her fate with the Runa—with the untermenschen of Rakhat.
May 11th, 2004 at 11:56 pm
“Children of God”, adam?
May 12th, 2004 at 2:18 pm
Exactly. It seemed fitting, after your quote. To be honest, when I first did it the closest book was the WashU Undergraduate Degree Bulletin, but since I think in sum more time was spent writing that sentence than will ever be spent in reading it, I cheated and used Children of God. More interesting than: “As an undergraduate student, you have the opportunity to learn from and work beside stimulating teacher-scholars who are leaders in their fields.”
May 12th, 2004 at 2:28 pm
hehe, yeah..much more interesting.