book me/me

Like Gukira, I don't usually do memes, but this one nabbed me.

1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open it  to page 123
3. Find the fifth sentence
4. Copy it onto your blog/journal along with these instructions

"Also, such a discussion will be diagnostic rather than hortatory: it will be more concerned with how effects are produced than with what effects should be produced."

[Kenneth Burke, Counter-Statement, 1968 (1931); emphasis in original]

Just for kicks here's the same exercise performed on my own book for a me-meme (3me): "This practice was mostly a hygienic measure, as oil served to keep dirt, sand, and dust out of the pores." Man, that could use some airbrush action, though it's kind of funny if imagined as a followup sentence to Burke's. Yah, I don't recommend the me-meme.

Comments

[Sara]

A meme about books? Lovely! This is actually from Lori's current book:

"I think it was because she was young as hell." (Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye)

[caraf]

"We may divide Steichen's career into four phases, each of which represents a shift in how he viewed the role of photography: Steichen the pictorialist, Steichen the technician, Steichen the advertiser, and Steichen the communicator."

Ho hum.

[dhawhee]

ha! maybe we should go back to our idea about the last word of everyone's dissertation.

[spencer]

"everyday"

[anon]

"Although we applaud the [National Security Strategy of the United States] and President Bush for foregrounding the horror of global poverty, we would remind readers that poverty, especially for the young, is a near epidemic proportions in the United States and caution them that poverty is a deeply embedded structural phenomenon that cannot be erased with giant loans and grants."