Merry Christmas everyone!
I was combing through my NetNewsWire backlog and trying to get to 0 items waiting to be read before the New Year and ran across Erik’s book page meme entry. I’ve never done one of these before, but I’ll try it. :)
Page 123 meme
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open the book to page 123.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
- Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
“Personally, I like compatibility.”
That’s page 123, fifth sentence of Love is the Killer App by Tim Sanders.
By the way, I tried to trace back this meme to its origins. Couldn’t quite get back all the way. I got stuck somewhere in LiveJournal. I found an interesting autopsy of the page 23 meme. I wonder how it got converted into page 123. Its like the telephone game via blogs…
Boy I thought my source material would doom it (see below), and sentences 1,2,3, and 4 of page 123 were awful, but then the 5th had an unmistakable resonance:
“To which most people replied: “Give me some of that.””
-Arcade Fever: The Fan’s Guide to the Golden Age of Video Games.
“Language is not a neutral medium.” – Semiotics, The Basics