Now THAT'S One Lucky Meme!
I saw a potentially interesting meme on Andrew Sullivan's blog the other day: take the book nearest you, go to page 123, and read the fifth sentence. That's all.
In a way, it's a classically terrible meme: unless you're reading someone who simply glitters on every page (G.K. Chesterton, maybe), you're running a terrible terrible risk. On the other hand, it's not particularly onerous, it's over quickly, and you can tell right away whether or not you've got a winner. So I figured, what the hell.
I don't have any actual good books with me at work: I simply collect (for no particularly good reason other than that it's free) piles and piles--literally--of bad fantasy and sci-fi literature. So I just grabbed the nearest book, one which I assume no one has or will ever hear of. The book is American Meat, by Stuart Moore (London: Black Flame/Games Workshop Limited, 2005). And, for context, it looks like a role-playing-game-inspired, post-apocalyptic take on The Jungle, or else a gothy, cyberpunk retread of Soylent Green. And here is the surprisingly wonderful fifth sentence on page 123:
[drumroll....]
"Of COURSE I saw the monkey!"
I vote we stop the meme right there. How could it possibly improve?
In a way, it's a classically terrible meme: unless you're reading someone who simply glitters on every page (G.K. Chesterton, maybe), you're running a terrible terrible risk. On the other hand, it's not particularly onerous, it's over quickly, and you can tell right away whether or not you've got a winner. So I figured, what the hell.
I don't have any actual good books with me at work: I simply collect (for no particularly good reason other than that it's free) piles and piles--literally--of bad fantasy and sci-fi literature. So I just grabbed the nearest book, one which I assume no one has or will ever hear of. The book is American Meat, by Stuart Moore (London: Black Flame/Games Workshop Limited, 2005). And, for context, it looks like a role-playing-game-inspired, post-apocalyptic take on The Jungle, or else a gothy, cyberpunk retread of Soylent Green. And here is the surprisingly wonderful fifth sentence on page 123:
[drumroll....]
"Of COURSE I saw the monkey!"
I vote we stop the meme right there. How could it possibly improve?
Labels: Dave Update, games, humor and whimsy
posted by Cowboy Dave Dickerson | 6:30 AM
1 Comments:
From "Welcome to Jesusland," p. 123, sentence 5 (I think -- the sentences are very long and complicated and I'm shitty at counting)...
"It is best to rid yourself of the family albatross now before you have to go to the time-consuming trouble of killing them."
Hi, Dave! Jas P. Howard here. I'm putting a link to Bourbon Cowboy into the sidebar of Spulge Nine sometime today. I have no time for blogging, and only backed into it to prove to Hallmark that the Writers On Tour program could be extended via blogs. Haven't offered any proof yet, but it's been mildly entertaining.
Good to read you...
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