I'm going on vacation. The family's going to bum around Monterey for a few days, and go see the Great White Shark. I really need it.
So in the spirit of doing nothing serious today, I'll follow instructions I found here, which have been propagating virus-like from site to site.
- 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.
The nearest book is Roget's Thesaurus, and next to that is the American Heritage Dictionary. Neither contain sentences as such. Next to that is Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, which has been on my desk but I haven't looked at for two years. Nevertheless, I try it. Page 123 is a large picture with three sentences of text above it. No matter how I parse it, there is no fifth sentence.
That's all the books on my desk. Behind me is my office bookshelf with assorted magazines, technical publications, reference manuals for various computer graphics APIs, math texts, and a few volumes on philosophy and science. There's no particular reason why I would pick any one of these over any other, so I have to make a judgment call. I pick Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? because I read it recently and it's relatively easy to pull out of its stack.
They omit flood geology and the obsession with Genesis, and draw heavily on the Islamic tradition of perceiving a harmonious, complex universe as a clear sign of divine creation.
- jack*
I visited Monterey once and tried to envision Cannery Row. It worked, a little, perhaps. That was 15 years ago. I wonder how it looks today?
Posted by: The Liberal Avenger | February 23, 2005 at 11:20 AM