Franc echoes fifth sentence meme, by way of bkmarcus at lowercaseliberty.
Grab the nearest book.
1. Open it to page 161.
2. Find the fifth full sentence.
3. Post the text of the sentence along with these instructions.
Don’t search around looking for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
Here goes:
No, I did not go searching for the coolest book I could find. Yes, “Human Action” was the closest book at hand, followed by deSoto’s “The Mystery of Capital”, Friedman’s “The World is Flat”, Bastiat’s “Fallacies” and Hayek’s “Serfdom”. What can I say? I like to keep the good books within my reach.
[...] up this meme from …no third solution, it’s nice and [...]
“But if, on the other hand, the supply of metal should increase nearly in the same proportion as the demand, it would continue to purchase or exchange for nearly the same quantity of corn, and the average money price of corn would, in spite of all improvements, continue very nearly the same.”
The Wealth of Nations, Volume 1.
“Maybe it came too late.”
The Fountainhead.
Like you, I grabbed what was closest. I just happen to be reading it now.
[...] No Third Solution and who knows how many other places I saw this. I figure what the hell. I guess it’s the [...]
// Here is some code that uses each of these fields:
Javascript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan
(I didn’t count code statements as sentences, but I did count complete sentences in comments in the code).
Page 161 was the Chapter 5 Title Page for the book I was reading and the only sentence is:
“To an evolutionary psychologist, the universal extragance of religious rituals, with their costs in time, resources, pain and privation, should suggest as vividly as a mandrill’s bottom that religion may be adaptive.” -Marek Kohn
I’m reading the God Delusion by Dawkins.
“An early medieval Arab traveller describing to his readers the wonders of the mysterious land of China, has a strange tale to tell.”
The sentence is from “The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 years”