Wednesday, April 14, 2004

Fun, then work

Mood: Good (my shoulder seems to be better)
Hair: Down, curled

From icontemplate:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the 5th sentence.
4. Post the sentence, along with these instructions.
(first book I grab--Reflexology--has only 3 sentences. It's going to be one of those days!
"To appreciate what the inner lives of great scientists / mathematicians / metaphysicians are like, we need only lie here and try to form a truly rigorous and coherent idea--as opposed to a fuzzy or Newsweekish idea--of what we really mean by 'omnipotent,' or 'integer,' or 'illimitable,' or 'finite but unbounded'. Everything and More, by David Foster Wallace [emphasis in original]
Hey it was that or Madame Bovary: "Right at the bottom, under the spruce bushes, a plaster priest was reading his breviary."

[I cheated a little; the second book I picked up was Jeremy McGrath's Wide Open. It was so incoherent, I just couldn't use his words.]

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