I don’t think I have ever done anything quite like this before, but Carmen Andres at In the Open Space “tagged” me, so… Apparently there is a Book Meme making the rounds, and it works like so:
- Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
- Open the book to page 123.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the next three sentences.
- Tag five people.
The nearest book to me at this very moment in time happens to be the 1978 edition of The Book of Lists by David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace and Amy Wallace — a paperback that I put on the table next to my laptop to keep it out of my kids’ hands. Page 123 has only seven sentences — I assume the list of interplanetary statistics doesn’t count — so if I have to type out sentences six to eight, I’ll steal the eighth sentence from the top of page 124:
Uranus is the first “discovered” planet, found by accident in 1781 by William Herschel, an amateur astronomer at the time. When the German chemist Martin Klaproth discovered a new metallic element in 1789, he named it for the new planet: uranium.
Neptune was the first planet whose existence was predicted theoretically before it was discovered.
Now comes the part where I tag people. I hereby nominate:
- Betty Ragan at Maximum Verbosity
- Geosomin at The Supposed Golden Path
- Jeffrey Overstreet at The Looking Closer Journal
- Magnus Skallagrimsson at The Shining Path
- Matt Page at Bible Films Blog
In Jeff’s case, if he doesn’t want to give away any spoilers from the books that he is working on, I would say he can limit himself to material that has already been published. Since the rest of us are working with published page numbers, that only seems fair!
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