Hey! You down there! Grab this meme!
Banjeroo tagged me for a meme. It’s a book meme, so although I don’t generally do memes, this one I can swing. Also, I am in fact grateful to Banjeroo since she is helping me out — I am in such a meh-boo-hiss kind of mood that any spontaneous blogging I would do would be equally meh-boo-hiss and we can’t have that now, can we? No indeedy.
The meme is to reach for the nearest book, to turn to the 123 page, to find the fifth sentence and post the next three. So here I am, reeeeeeeaaaaching for that book. Flip flip flip.
“Any word from August?” They didn’t answer, and he held up to show them four fat speckled trout neatly strung. “Supper!” he said, and for a moment they were all motionless, a tableau, he with the fish, they with their thoughts, the rest only watching and waiting.
from Little, Big by John Crowley. One of about fifteen books on my nightstand waiting for me, promising me brief respites from reality, tidy endings and brave adventurers. I am still waiting for my courage to rise.
I just tried it. My nearest book is a weighty tome ” Law for Social Worker” -at least you can tell I work in my study! But all page 123 says is Part II Using the legal system… so no sentences at all.
Your reading material sounds much more interesting than mine!
I propped myself up on an elbow and rubbed my eyes. Jenny was lying on her side, knees pulled to her chest. “The baby what?”
from Marley and Me by John Grogan.
Ok, (laughing) what’s the point of this meme?
soothe any possible blogging blahs- i’m tagging you with a cheap out meme. come see me for details.
Mediaeval Arabs had a practical interest in lions which were by no means uncommon in the deserts and along the rivers. The great mediaeval essayist, Al-Harriri, writes of “THE lion” when it appears in his stories because it was simply the lion the traveller was dreading to meet anyway. But Arabic is short of words for flowers because gardening, for the obvious reason that water is scarce, has not been a popular interest.
Arabs, Mark Allen, Continuum , Lonodn 2006
Great idea. I’m going to use it for my Monday meme next week.
Meh-boo-hiss? We need a .wav file to go with that!
“The road to the right leads west toward Naples.”
A generous Orthodoxy by Brian Mc Laren
Huh? Well, I can see it as a starter to write a short story.
“I thought Patrick Venables might be able to find out.” She lowered the tube and looked at me, smothering excitement and saying, “They’re the first concrete peice of evidence that anything’s going on.” I picked up the packet of sandwiches and showed her the labels.
- Dick Francis, “Driving Force”
I know. I just had to apologize to http://www.isoglossia.com for tagging him too. I’m not usually a meme-machine either… but hey, free post right? And you did nicely with it, so…