Friday, May 04, 2007
The good ol' book meme
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Turn to page 43.
3. Report the first full sentence on the page.
4. Cite the book, and splain why it's so handy, what it means to you, etc.
5. In the comments and at yer own place, if you like.
I'll start:
"Cattle done fine last night."
-- Jack Bailey (David Dary, ed.) "A Texas Cowboy's Journal: Up the Trail to Kansas in 1868" (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press and National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 2006).
The book fits smack-dab in the middle of my historical interests: the 19th century West.
2. Turn to page 43.
3. Report the first full sentence on the page.
4. Cite the book, and splain why it's so handy, what it means to you, etc.
5. In the comments and at yer own place, if you like.
I'll start:
"Cattle done fine last night."
-- Jack Bailey (David Dary, ed.) "A Texas Cowboy's Journal: Up the Trail to Kansas in 1868" (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press and National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 2006).
The book fits smack-dab in the middle of my historical interests: the 19th century West.
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For a lone project or just several projects, there is little need for "mobilizing".
Juran on Leadership for Quality. J. M. Juran, The Free Press, 1989
Juran on Leadership for Quality. J. M. Juran, The Free Press, 1989
"Nearest book" is a dangerous direction at my house :-)
A faint connection to the killer washed across his skin.
Deviant Ways by Chris Mooney
A faint connection to the killer washed across his skin.
Deviant Ways by Chris Mooney
"His letters to Williams are lofty and elder-brotherish, and he claimed to derive much amusement from the spectacle of 'pore old Bill Carlos trundling along.'"
A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound by Humphrey Carpenter. The "Bill Carlos" is poet and Pound protege William Carlos Williams. The opening pronoun refers to Pound.
A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound by Humphrey Carpenter. The "Bill Carlos" is poet and Pound protege William Carlos Williams. The opening pronoun refers to Pound.
"A human figure with clearly recognizable facial figures must appear with at least a three-quarter frontal view on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange."
The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money & Investing, 3rd Ed., Morris and Morris, 2004.
Sue me, I'm at work.
The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money & Investing, 3rd Ed., Morris and Morris, 2004.
Sue me, I'm at work.
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So one day, he just showed up at a school function where Fifi was hauling in something like six hundred hand decorated cupcakes, she hadnt put a speck of decoration on her face, which for a texas girl is worse than being buckass nekkid in the middle of the freeway. The sweet potato queens field guide to men,by Jill conner browne. Sorry, baby brother, I couldn't resist it.
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The most sacred symbol in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a tree: a sprawling, shade-bearing, eighty-year-old American elm.
From Max Lucado's "Facing Your Giants."
My dad's about to have major surgery -- to remove a tumor on his left lung.
I'm reading this book to remind me that God's in charge of defeating our giants. We fight, we believe, we consult with doctors, do research, ask questions, and make sound decisions. As Lucado says, "David majors in God." David's skill killed Goliath, but David was focused on God as he aimed the deadly stone.
From Max Lucado's "Facing Your Giants."
My dad's about to have major surgery -- to remove a tumor on his left lung.
I'm reading this book to remind me that God's in charge of defeating our giants. We fight, we believe, we consult with doctors, do research, ask questions, and make sound decisions. As Lucado says, "David majors in God." David's skill killed Goliath, but David was focused on God as he aimed the deadly stone.
"On our side, the totally unqualified rallied to the cause, I mean enthusiast esteemed for want of any caution and experience. not to mentioned judgment."
Captain Silas Soule, in a letter to his publisher about the pre-war Kansas, on April 1, 1861.
Book; The Massacre at Sand Creek: Narative Voices
by Bruce Cutler
Next time you're in Denver ER, visit the Historical Society, and check out the Sand Creek stuff.
Captain Silas Soule, in a letter to his publisher about the pre-war Kansas, on April 1, 1861.
Book; The Massacre at Sand Creek: Narative Voices
by Bruce Cutler
Next time you're in Denver ER, visit the Historical Society, and check out the Sand Creek stuff.
Jaime! Long time no comment! Howdy.
Geoffey: William Carolos Williams has been haunting me for about two years now. I guess I should systematically read his stuff, rather than randomly.
3 Desks: I think I have used that very book to start a meme such as this!
Sister (I'm assuming it's Little Big Sister who has figured out how to comment!): The ERs are BIG fans of the Sweeto Potato Queen's guides to life!
Tracy: Redneck Prayewrs aloft! You know I've been there.
Drlobjo: I will. I'm spending the day in Denver proper on May 12-13; capping the 12th with a Rockies gamel; they appear to suck as bad as the Texas Rangers! I've read a thing or two, recent, on the Sand Creek massacre ...
Geoffey: William Carolos Williams has been haunting me for about two years now. I guess I should systematically read his stuff, rather than randomly.
3 Desks: I think I have used that very book to start a meme such as this!
Sister (I'm assuming it's Little Big Sister who has figured out how to comment!): The ERs are BIG fans of the Sweeto Potato Queen's guides to life!
Tracy: Redneck Prayewrs aloft! You know I've been there.
Drlobjo: I will. I'm spending the day in Denver proper on May 12-13; capping the 12th with a Rockies gamel; they appear to suck as bad as the Texas Rangers! I've read a thing or two, recent, on the Sand Creek massacre ...
"In the years after 1925, when postcards were no longer a medium for reproducing pictures of local interest, the only views of Indian women that remained were those appealing to tourist audiences."
The Women's West, edited by Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson. University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.
Since I'm actually sitting in the University of Oklahoma library at the moment, I thought about going and finding something crazy, but this was quite literally the nearest book to hand. Looks interesting, though. Maybe I'll check it out, since the semester is almost over.
The Women's West, edited by Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson. University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.
Since I'm actually sitting in the University of Oklahoma library at the moment, I thought about going and finding something crazy, but this was quite literally the nearest book to hand. Looks interesting, though. Maybe I'll check it out, since the semester is almost over.
Love this exercise:
Il n'est pas vrai que la vie puisse se renier elle-même. Il n'est rien de vivant qui de néant s'éprenne. (incipit: Saint-John Perse)
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Bruaire, C. ''Une éthique pour la médecine''. Paris: Fayard, 1978.
Il n'est pas vrai que la vie puisse se renier elle-même. Il n'est rien de vivant qui de néant s'éprenne. (incipit: Saint-John Perse)
in
Bruaire, C. ''Une éthique pour la médecine''. Paris: Fayard, 1978.
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kiki's in finals week, kiki's in finals week, kiki's in finals week :-)
Karen: What does that mean? :-)
Karen: What does that mean? :-)
"It is not true that life could ever renounce itself. There is nothing living that procedes from a void, nor anything that exists (i.e. exists with self-knowledge, self-love) within emptiness or oblivion."
[Sorry,in my excitement at the exercise at hand, I had transcribed it faultily}
The whole quote (I did not include)goes on to say, and pardon the quickie translation:
"Neither does anything keep it's form or dimension, without the incessant influx of Being. The tragedy is not found in the metamorphosis itself. The real drama of our times is in the separation we allow to grow between man within time and man outside of time."
[Sorry,in my excitement at the exercise at hand, I had transcribed it faultily}
The whole quote (I did not include)goes on to say, and pardon the quickie translation:
"Neither does anything keep it's form or dimension, without the incessant influx of Being. The tragedy is not found in the metamorphosis itself. The real drama of our times is in the separation we allow to grow between man within time and man outside of time."
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"What may be necessary for those countries is not my responsibility to determine."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Edited by Gerald D. Nash
Read for a History Paper i wrote recently
Ronholio
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Edited by Gerald D. Nash
Read for a History Paper i wrote recently
Ronholio
Whatever is in the heavens and wahtever is in the earth is Allah's; and whether you manifest what is in your minds or hide it, Allah will call you to account according to it; then he will forgive whom He pleases and chastise whom He pleases and Allah has power over all things.
"The problem facing religious education in the government schools was difficult, according to Verkhovskii, but not beyond a solution through dialogue and open mindedness."
"Orthodoxy, Education and Russian Federation" from the Journal of Church and State, Volume 49-Number 1, Winter 2007.
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"Orthodoxy, Education and Russian Federation" from the Journal of Church and State, Volume 49-Number 1, Winter 2007.
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