Meme

[ffutures]

Since everyone else seems to be doing it...

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST

"Similar to Drosophila, many thousands of Arabidopsis mutants are available for scientists to study and discover how plant genes function."

Source is a biotechnology company's educational catalogue that came in this morning's post and happens to be the nearest book to the computer.

Comments

[w00hoo.livejournal.com]

I don't see the point of posting these in seperate places, so you can have my result here :-)

"Cresswell Pl SW10 45 F4" from 'ParkRight your guide to parking in Westminster' I'm on site and as well as the closest book, it appears to be the only one.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

And why not. It's a silly meme anyway, if the stack of catalogues by my desk was arranged slightly differently my extract would have been part of the description of a bucket.

[w00hoo.livejournal.com]

It just always strikes me that the only real interest from them is in comparing the results to see how diverse they are and who is going to bother to tramp through a load of blogs just to see who is and isn't doing it. I guess it depends on what you're intention is for the meme, interest or propogation.

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

I really don't do memes in my LJ, so here you go:

"A second cartridge was to be chosen from the candidates submitted by those nations that had signed the Memorandum of Understanding."

Small Arms of the World by Ezell

[vitruvian23.livejournal.com]

"I nod, cautiously."

Saturn's Children, SFBC edition.

[parakkum.livejournal.com]

Like the others, I find it more fun to post it here.

chemostat - A steady state laboratory culture apparatus.

(The nearest book was "A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, so you get the fifth word on the page, as that's about as close as I can get to a "sentence.")

[sirernest.livejournal.com]

"The kings at arms are distinguished by the following titles: - Garter, Clariencieux, Norroy."

from London in the Nineteenth Century, by Thomas H. Shepherd (a reproduction, the original being published in 1827)