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larryhammerA seven-step book meme that’s going around, which I first noticed from chestnut_pod:
1. Take five books off your bookshelf. (I used physical bookshelves, one per.)
2. Book #1 - first sentence: “It happened quickly, as if a diviner’s staff had struck the ground.”
3. Book #2 - last complete sentence on page fifty: “You might, for instance, include the total number of volumes in a multivolume publication.”
4. Book #3 - second complete sentence on page one hundred: “And he knew that it was in Kurtzburg’s Saloon on the Lower East Side in 1919 that his mother had fallen in love with Alter Klayman, newly arrived in this country and working as an iceman and freelance mover of pianos.”
5. Book #4 - next to the last complete sentence on page one hundred fifty: “One’s sense of honour is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out with age, is not, as the poet said, making money, but having the respect of one’s fellow men.”
6. Book #5 - final sentence of the book: “They spent the rest of the morning at work, sorting through the endless details that had to be settled before the men of the King’s Own rode north to war.”
7. Arrange the five sentences into a paragraph:
Hrm. Maybe I should have stuck to a single bookcase, which are sorted by genre/subject.
(In case you’re wondering: #1: House of Rain, Craig Childs; #2: MLA Handbook, 8th ed.; #3: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon; #4: History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides tr. Rex Warner; #5: Squire, Tamora Pierce)
---L.
Subject quote from The Critic as Artist, Oscar Wilde.
chestnut_pod:1. Take five books off your bookshelf. (I used physical bookshelves, one per.)
2. Book #1 - first sentence: “It happened quickly, as if a diviner’s staff had struck the ground.”
3. Book #2 - last complete sentence on page fifty: “You might, for instance, include the total number of volumes in a multivolume publication.”
4. Book #3 - second complete sentence on page one hundred: “And he knew that it was in Kurtzburg’s Saloon on the Lower East Side in 1919 that his mother had fallen in love with Alter Klayman, newly arrived in this country and working as an iceman and freelance mover of pianos.”
5. Book #4 - next to the last complete sentence on page one hundred fifty: “One’s sense of honour is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out with age, is not, as the poet said, making money, but having the respect of one’s fellow men.”
6. Book #5 - final sentence of the book: “They spent the rest of the morning at work, sorting through the endless details that had to be settled before the men of the King’s Own rode north to war.”
7. Arrange the five sentences into a paragraph:
One’s sense of honour is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out with age, is not, as the poet said, making money, but having the respect of one’s fellow men. You might, for instance, include the total number of volumes in a multivolume publication. And he knew that it was in Kurtzburg’s Saloon on the Lower East Side in 1919 that his mother had fallen in love with Alter Klayman, newly arrived in this country and working as an iceman and freelance mover of pianos. It happened quickly, as if a diviner’s staff had struck the ground. They spent the rest of the morning at work, sorting through the endless details that had to be settled before the men of the King’s Own rode north to war.
Hrm. Maybe I should have stuck to a single bookcase, which are sorted by genre/subject.
(In case you’re wondering: #1: House of Rain, Craig Childs; #2: MLA Handbook, 8th ed.; #3: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon; #4: History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides tr. Rex Warner; #5: Squire, Tamora Pierce)
---L.
Subject quote from The Critic as Artist, Oscar Wilde.