I Fail To See…
…the point of memes like this, but I am nothing if not a joiner. (Joke. That was a joke.) So here is my response to Chas’s challenge. The rules for this book meme:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.
That means I get to post the following passage from Queen of Dreams, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni:
It looks just as unappetizing as before, only greasier. I sigh and place it, along with overcooked rice, on a tray.
I’m making the banana squash at the request of my father.
And now for the really hateful part: naming five more people to undergo this silly exercise. Because I know they are joiners too, I tag Oak, Macha, Pandora, Moonroot, and Judy. Have at it, ladies.
February 27th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
While not tagged………..gotta share, ’cause it made me laugh. (one note of explanation, my computer is shared by my husband…….hence not all books are mine)
if I turn to the left, first book & lines:
It is also part an economic club and part a political one. It is formed of some countries – notably Belgium and the Netherlands – that do seem to want to become part of a greater political whole, to echo America’s slogan “E pluribus unum”. “Out of many, one”, and even to use that unity as a counterweight to America itself. But it is also formed of some other countries – notably Britain, Denmark and Sweden – that most definetely do not, that want to have the benefit of collective strength in a few areas of activity but which want to remain as independent as possible in other ways.
20:21 VISION Twentieth-Century Lessons for the Twenty-First Century by Bill Emmott
if I turn to the right, first book & lines:
page 123 is photographs of T Thorn Coyle demonstrating the 4 steps of the Devotional Dance for Sex. Part of her teachings of the Iron Pentacle.
There are no sentences, let alone the count of 5 & subsequent 3.
The contrast made me laugh!
Oh yes, EVOLUTIONARY WITCHCRAFT by T Thorn Coyle
February 28th, 2008 at 10:10 am
I don’t like chain letters/posts/blog comments/tagging.
But Auntie Meme responded, when asked, with The Mabinogion, Patrick Ford translation:
“My stepmother has cursed me that I shall never have a wife until I get Olwen daughter of Ysbaddaden Chief Giant,”
“It’s easy for you to achieve that, son,” his father told him. “Go to Arthur, who is your cousin, to have your hair trimmed, and request that from him as your gift.”
Auntie Meme also mentioned the Da-Da, surrealist, chancy juxtaposition quality buzzing around the internet.
February 28th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Wow, these are great. Thanks, gang!
February 29th, 2008 at 11:11 am
“…We turned off the highway on to the slip road, and then off it, past a jhopadpatti, into darkness. Our beams conjured up a dusty road, trees sliding into existence and out again, it was like falling into a tunnel. I went eagerly into it. Then we took a sharp left, and the road changed, we crunched over dirt. There was a car parked at the end of the lane, and the hard black of a building through the overhanging branches, and we got out and walked towards it, around a corner, and now there was a single bulb above the door….”
~ from Sacred Games, by Vikram Chandra (of a total of a whopping 900 pp.)
I tag Kevin , Cosette , Julie, Brendan, and Christopher
The trouble with coming in late on this is that some friends you’d be likely to tag have already been tagged.