We haven't taken many pictures lately, and I don't have much interesting to report. We've all been kind of sick the last week with various combinations of upper respiratory and lower GI ailments. But in the interest of posting something new, I'm stealing an idea from the blog Seriously, so blessed. Here's what we do:
1. Pick up the nearest book of at least 123 pages. Don't pick the coolest or most impressive one, just the NEAREST one.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence and post it!
So the nearest book at hand is the authorized biography of Hugh Nibley (by Boyd J. Petersen). Page 123, 5th sentence, reads:
"As he wrote to a friend who was going through marital problems, 'Common ground does not exist' between the two worlds." (He's referring to the credo that one must live "in the world but not of the world.")
So...what's in YOUR nearby book?
Sisters
4 years ago
14 comments:
Nearest book: Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless.
Page 123, fifth sentence was a footnote:
"Early Jewish apocrypha emphasize the close association beteen Adam and the art of writing, a theme which cannot be handled in the scope of this paper.
I am pleased to say that the nearest book is none other than Twilight. (By Stephanie Meyer. Have you heard of it??). Elise is reading it. Is that bad? Here's the line:
"I purposefully lumped myself in with the youngsters, trying to make it clear that I preferred Jacob."
I think it describes lots of middle-aged Twilight fans! :-)
oh Denny, what a hilarious idea (or what a hilarious idea from Seriously So Blessed). It cracks me up that dad's 5th sentence was a footnote! I think when this post is complete you should create a little notebook with all of the comments :)
Sorry you've been under the weather!
The closest book to me right now is is Marjorie Pay Hinckley LETTERS. Page 123, fifth sentence reads: "Saturday I took the Pearce girls to the fair. They came to the capitol on the bus and piled in the car."
hurrumph - that was kind of a let-down. but oh well!
Dad -- Funny that we both had Nibley books close by. Angie, yes, i believe I have heard of that little vampire book (and I've always much preferred Jacob to that prissy Edward). And Barbie, I was just reading in that very same Marjorie Hinckley book. I love it; it's so cozy...
Aw. man. Mine is SO boring. The nearest book is "Illustrated Dental Embryology, Histology, and Anatomy." (I was trying to do some research on B's enamel disorder.) Anyway, here's my sentence:
"The basal layer is also considered germinative because mitosis of the epithelial cells occurs within this layer, but this cell division is seen only under higher magnification of the tissue."
I bet that's what everyone was dying to hear. :)
Andrea, I LOVE your sentence! It's so obscure and technical. It's fun to find out what books are lying about in other people's houses.
I'm sitting right by my book case, so there are lots of books close. I guess the closest on will be the easiest for me to reach. Oh wait! Ha! The scriptures are right here next to my keyboard. I don't normally read at the computer, but I'm working on our ward Christmas party presentation and had to read Luke 2. Anyway, here's page 123, 5th sentence:
"And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it."
Hmmm...that's Exodus 28:25. It's talking about Aaron's garments, but I don't really know what most of that verse means. Oh well. Fun blog idea.
Well...that's the best one yet, I'd say.
And what, pray, is an "ouch," I ask myself.
okay, I'm sitting here belly laughing at Amy's - tears are beginning to form around my lower eyelids - .
Thanks again for the fun.
Barbie
Nearest book: Auditing and Assurance Services(Studying for my last final right now don'tcha know)
"In 1976, in Hochfelder v. Ernst&Young, known both as a leading securities law case and as a CPA liabilities case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that knowledge and intent to deceive are required before CPAs can be held liable for violation of Rule 10B-5."
Riveting eh?
Andy
I absolutely love these snippets. Thanks, Andy! Keep 'em coming, everybody. They're all so random and amusing.
Now we're all dying to know what rule 108.5 is.
I JUST put my Intro to Windows Vista book down by the front door so I won't forget it in the morning. I have been poring over it for the last 3 hours. Tomorrow is the final. Next booklet near at hand reads: "number of total pixels: 3.34 million pixels". Hmmmm....does this count? It's under "System" which is under "Specifications" in the owner's manual of the Digital Camera FinePix S3000. OK, so that's not really a book. As I dig down the pile of papers by my computer I find....my own book! "French Fundamentals". It only goes to page 104. Too bad. OK, the nearest bookcase at hand. Let's see what we have here. Why, it's the family history bookcase. The Dreamfather's autobiography is near at hand. Page 123, 5th sentence reads... (are you ready for this?) "We didn't mind that a bit." You'll all have to look it up to find out just what he was talking about. Hint: It has to do with his production of "The Music Man".
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