Nearest-book meme

[beowabbit]

Found via omegabeth:

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open the book to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the next few sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
• Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST

 ‘What about if it’s got an urn or a plinth or a potted plant?’ said Nobby.
 ‘Have you got one in mind, Nobby?’ said Colon suspiciously.
 ‘Yes. The Goddess Anoia* Arising from the Cutlery,’ said Nobby. ‘They’ve got it here. It was painted by a bloke with three i’s in his name, which sounds pretty artistic to me.’

That’s watchmen Nobby Nobbs and Fred Colon in a museum discussing when pictures of nude women are Art, and when they’re just dirty pictures, in Terry Pratchett’s Thud. The footnote explains that “Anoia is the Ankh-Morpork Goddess of Things That Get Stuck in Drawers.”

Comments

[jostajam.livejournal.com]

Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Orson.
Orson who?
Orson wagon are parked outside.

Yes the nearest book to me was a book of knock knock jokes.

[smacaski.livejournal.com]

Ha, I just finished re-reading that.

[derien.livejournal.com]

Nobby and Colon, yay!! :):) (But you still got a cool book, without digging.)

[beowabbit]

(But you still got a cool book, without digging.)

Yes; it happens to have been on my desk because there’s a quotation I want to transcribe from it. It’s been there for ages. Next closest would have been Reading Lolita in Teheran, which I haven’t read (yet); it’s near my desk because I was sitting there when somebody I lent it to gave it back.

[concrete.livejournal.com]

Set up a projector so the whole team navigates while one person drives. (See "Pair Programming" in Chapter 5 for an explanation of driving and navigating.)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

On page 56 there's just a map titled Vieux-Montreal. :-)


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