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agonistes tagged me for the book meme that perpetually wanders around LiveJournal.1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag five people.
The nearest book, laugh at me as you will, seems to be Susan Cooper, Silver on the Tree.
Jane shrieked, and then Simon was past her in a flurry of arms and legs, clutching at Lewis, crying out as the toe of one heavy boot met his own shin.
Simon was never quite sure precisely what happened then. Fighting to drag Caradog Lewis away from John Rowlands' inert form, he found himself suddenly thrust downwards towards the sea in Lewis' grip, quite unable to resist.
muchabstracted, flintknappy, taylweaver, the_paper_nun and prosewitch, do you want to try it?
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Date: 2006-08-15 03:54 am (UTC)The Zizek Reader.
Better yet, page 123's fifth sentence ends an essay, meaning we have:
See Robert Pfaller's intervention at the symposium Die Dinge lachen a unserer Stelle, Linz (Austria), 8-10 October, 1996. For a more detailed elaboration of interpassivity, see Zizek, The Plague of Fantasies, ch. 3.
Borrowed from Robert Pfaller.
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Date: 2006-08-15 04:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-15 05:33 am (UTC)Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson.
"The ass taught me nothing," Hooke said. "Anyone who is not a half-wit can learn all there is to know of painting, by standing in front of paintings and looking at them. What was the use, then, of being an apprentice?"
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Date: 2006-08-16 05:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-17 05:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-15 01:50 pm (UTC)At the moment, I am in the living room of my apartment, and the nearest book is actually a cookbook...
and p. 123 is the index! So I guess instead of sentences, I have entries:
New York Ham and Beans, 56-57
O
oatmeal, 37
Old Time Refridgerator Pudding, 114
When I tried this the other day, the nearest books were Israeli children's books, and they didn't *have* a p. 123 - so I had to go with what had been the nearest book when I first read the meme (the one I would have used had I had time to answer it at that moment) rather than those nearest to me when I answered it.
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Date: 2006-08-16 02:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-16 04:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-15 11:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-16 03:01 am (UTC)Anywho, page 123 is in my chem lab manual, so typing out the formula may be a litle tricky. Telling what counts as three sentences also tricky. Here goes:
B.9 Calculate the moles of anhydrate by dividing the mass of the anhydrate by its molar mass
(120.4 g/mole of MgSO4)
1 mole anhydrate
g anhydrate (see B.5) X ----------------- = moles anhydrate
120.4 g anhydrate
B.10 To determine the formula of the hydrate we need the following ratio:
________ moles of water to 1 mole of anhydrate
To determine the ratio of moles of water too 1 mole of anhydrate, divide the moles of
water (see B.8) by the moles of anhydrate B.9). Round off the value for moles of H2O to
the nearest whole number.
Moles of water (B.8) moles H2O
---------------------- = ------------------
Moles anhydrate (B.9) 1 mole anhydrate
Anyone impressed I am passing this subject? I know I am. :)
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Date: 2006-08-16 04:03 am (UTC)