1. Grab the nearest book.
Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age: “Score a few points for Bud!”Dorky but bookish (therefore fun) ‘open the nearest book to page 23’ meme
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
Found in several places this week. The one that actually prompted me to post was here.
A little over a century ago, the printer T.J. Cobden-Sanderson took it upon himself to surreptitiously dump…
A quick Sunday visit to #fortligonier with my history-loving son.
The choreographer daughter is doing a thing.
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters.
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Thanks for that link, Cornelia... who know how much staying power this meme would have? It seems that several people see it in more than one place before they actually decide to join in... I wonder if that's somehow significant.
Try this one: RomBlog's Jorge has linked different 23/5-sentences to a string ...
I posted my own, too! Check the blog :^)
Thanks, Chris!
Here's an attempt to track the spread of the meme.