The sentance of the day is…
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“Ah, yes. Etymology is ever the arbiter of truth”
Although that is a fragment and a sentance. Right? And irony. We don’t get that much around here.
– natalie angier, p. xii in the book Woman…
meme: nearest book, p. 56
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Jumping on another meme:
“You have discovered that bad people always have a bad effect, and good people a good effect, upon their nearest neighbors;” – Plato, The Last Days of Socrates.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
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I wanted to get the sentance from the good book:
She had fits of tortured longing for a friend or an enemy with a mind better than her own.
The good book was about two feet farther away…so ,
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