Thursday, November 08, 2007
Book meme! My favorite!
Come one! It's fun! :-)
Grab the nearest book. Turn to page 23. Go to the fifth full paragraph. Type it in the comments and cite the book. Go ye therefore and do likewise on your own blog, if you like.
Mine:
"Atomic Energy Commission. It no longer exists. See Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
-- The Associated Press Stylebook, 2003, New York: Associated Press, 2003.
Grab the nearest book. Turn to page 23. Go to the fifth full paragraph. Type it in the comments and cite the book. Go ye therefore and do likewise on your own blog, if you like.
Mine:
"Atomic Energy Commission. It no longer exists. See Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
-- The Associated Press Stylebook, 2003, New York: Associated Press, 2003.
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Had to search for a book with five paragraphs on a page. Came closest with third paragraph of "Race, Politics, Language" in Prophetic Fragments by Cornel West:
"Adoption of the language of rights as the medium for moral discourse in modern nations had the effect of secularizing discussion and thereby cooling the heated, often violent exchanges between people whose rights in general were either unacknowledged, denied, or flagrantly violated. Like the Huguenots in Catholic France, black Christians have been forced to employ a mode of moral discourse through which they could make their plight understood in terms the rest of the nation could grasp. Unlike the Huguenots, black Christians found a language of rights already in place. The problem became that of extending and enriching this language by deepening its moral basis and enlarging its legal scope. It is no accident the the U. S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence (as opposed to the Bible) have served as the major resources for appeals against injustice by evangelical black church-led protest movements."
"Adoption of the language of rights as the medium for moral discourse in modern nations had the effect of secularizing discussion and thereby cooling the heated, often violent exchanges between people whose rights in general were either unacknowledged, denied, or flagrantly violated. Like the Huguenots in Catholic France, black Christians have been forced to employ a mode of moral discourse through which they could make their plight understood in terms the rest of the nation could grasp. Unlike the Huguenots, black Christians found a language of rights already in place. The problem became that of extending and enriching this language by deepening its moral basis and enlarging its legal scope. It is no accident the the U. S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence (as opposed to the Bible) have served as the major resources for appeals against injustice by evangelical black church-led protest movements."
As I'm too lazy to go hunting for a book with 5 paragraphs on pg 23 (and wouldn't type the whole thing even if I did), I'm going to cheat and do the fifth sentence:
"[The navigator] would then place the needle in a piece of straw and float it in a bowl of water where it would point to the magnetic north pole."
That's from chapter 2 (A Brief History of Wayfinding) in Peter Morville's Ambient Findability (2005).
"[The navigator] would then place the needle in a piece of straw and float it in a bowl of water where it would point to the magnetic north pole."
That's from chapter 2 (A Brief History of Wayfinding) in Peter Morville's Ambient Findability (2005).
Ha! The usual meme asks for a sentence, not a paragraph. I was feelin' burdensome when I posted this. :-)
Geoffrey, this here is what's wrong with academic writing! "Had to search for a book with five paragraphs on a page." That graf you left has a fox index of 16 or higher, I'll bet.
Geoffrey, this here is what's wrong with academic writing! "Had to search for a book with five paragraphs on a page." That graf you left has a fox index of 16 or higher, I'll bet.
You'll like this - it talks about an Oklahoman...
Seattle was just another big city. All cities tend to look pretty much alike from the hitchhiker's point of view. I didn't even see the ocean. Going south to Portland, I got a ride with a long, lean fellow from Oklahoma, who said his name was Fern. He was a hard, tough, rambling hombre, and he looked like Gary Cooper; I liked him at once, especially when he stopped in the woods and let me fire his revolver at some whiskey bottles. He said he was a wounded veteran, not a draft dodger. He showed me his tattoos: on his left arm a mermaid, on his right the motto Semper Fidelis.
St. Edward Abbey, The Serpents of Paradise
Seattle was just another big city. All cities tend to look pretty much alike from the hitchhiker's point of view. I didn't even see the ocean. Going south to Portland, I got a ride with a long, lean fellow from Oklahoma, who said his name was Fern. He was a hard, tough, rambling hombre, and he looked like Gary Cooper; I liked him at once, especially when he stopped in the woods and let me fire his revolver at some whiskey bottles. He said he was a wounded veteran, not a draft dodger. He showed me his tattoos: on his left arm a mermaid, on his right the motto Semper Fidelis.
St. Edward Abbey, The Serpents of Paradise
"Moses 7:48
And it came to pass that Enoch looked upon the earth; and he heard a voice from the bowels thereof, saying: Wo, wo is me,the mother of men; I am pained, I am weary, because of the wickedness of my children. When shall I rest, and be cleansed from the filthiness which is gone forth out of me? When will my creator sanctify me, that I may rest, and righteousness for a season abide upon my face."
The book of Moses in the "Pearl of Great Price" by Joseph Smith.
"Wo, wo is me,the mother of men;...." Enoch was listening to the "earth mother"?
I will now remove this book from this computer area to make sure that it does not end up in Book meme again!
And it came to pass that Enoch looked upon the earth; and he heard a voice from the bowels thereof, saying: Wo, wo is me,the mother of men; I am pained, I am weary, because of the wickedness of my children. When shall I rest, and be cleansed from the filthiness which is gone forth out of me? When will my creator sanctify me, that I may rest, and righteousness for a season abide upon my face."
The book of Moses in the "Pearl of Great Price" by Joseph Smith.
"Wo, wo is me,the mother of men;...." Enoch was listening to the "earth mother"?
I will now remove this book from this computer area to make sure that it does not end up in Book meme again!
There weren't 5 paragraphs on page 23, so I just took the last one:
"In a mechanistic alternative to the pathway via the ketene imine, the malononitrile anion group in the zwitterion 40 could enter an acid-base equilibrium with methanol giving rise to the ion pair 49. An intramolecular Ritter reaction (64) produces the cyclic nitrilium ion 50, which suffers from ring strain, too. Combination with the methoxide ion would afford the methyl imidate 44."
Ermm .... the uh pictures are kinda helpful. ;)
Curran, D.P. (ed) Advances in Cycloaddition Vol 1., Jai Press Inc: Greenwich, CN, 1988.
"In a mechanistic alternative to the pathway via the ketene imine, the malononitrile anion group in the zwitterion 40 could enter an acid-base equilibrium with methanol giving rise to the ion pair 49. An intramolecular Ritter reaction (64) produces the cyclic nitrilium ion 50, which suffers from ring strain, too. Combination with the methoxide ion would afford the methyl imidate 44."
Ermm .... the uh pictures are kinda helpful. ;)
Curran, D.P. (ed) Advances in Cycloaddition Vol 1., Jai Press Inc: Greenwich, CN, 1988.
So, Alan, you're a chemist? Cool.
Fifth sentence, eh?
From The Glory of the Lord I: Seeing the Form by Hans Urs von Balthasar
"Only the form that stand within this spiritual space - whether the space has been fully crystallized or is only now beginning to define itself - only such form is genuine form, and only it can wholly claim for itself the name of beauty."
Fifth sentence, eh?
From The Glory of the Lord I: Seeing the Form by Hans Urs von Balthasar
"Only the form that stand within this spiritual space - whether the space has been fully crystallized or is only now beginning to define itself - only such form is genuine form, and only it can wholly claim for itself the name of beauty."
attorney, lawyer In common usage the words are interchangeable.
-- The Associated Press Stylebook, 2005, New York: Associated Press, 2005.
-- The Associated Press Stylebook, 2005, New York: Associated Press, 2005.
What from that quote makes you think I'm a chemist, Geoffrey? :)
Kidding...yeah, I'm a chemistry graduate student.
Kidding...yeah, I'm a chemistry graduate student.
"But you don't have to look at the great generational superstars like Icahn and Perelman to find guys who make tons of money manipulating assets as if they were servings of dim sum on the big lazy Susan of international capital. Deals, how we love them and the men who make them! There are whole magazines devoted to nothing but The Daily Deal. Donald Trump continues to be celebrated as an artist of the deal. The business press subsists on them. Investment bankers build their livelihoods consolidating and deconsolidating entire industries. And we who live inside these buildings that are constantly under reconstruction and deconstruction, are going nuts working for guys who have perfected the status. As we do, the business intellectual establishment, if that is not too much of an oxymorom, gets priapic about the whole thing, and personally, I blame them more than anybody else, because they're supposed to be smarter."
"Crazy Bosses
By Stanley Bing
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