a meme that's going around
Jan. 25th, 2012 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
capri0mni(Caught, this time, from spiralsheep)
Open the nearest book at page 45 and read the first sentence, which will predict your sex life for the next year (but I sincerely trust not!).
Okay, there were two books close to hand when I first encountered this. They were stacked. The big one on the bottom was nearest to my fingertips in strict measurement of inches/centimeters, but (being on the bottom) was harder to get to to open, and flip to page 45.
The book on top (No More Masks! an Anthology of Poems by Women [publication date: 1973]) had this on Page 45:
"A Petticoat"
by Gertrude Stein.
A light white, a disgrace, an ink spot, a rosy charm.
[1914]
That's possibly a possible description of my continuing spinsterhood (or dodgy laundry habits). But it's not exactly a sentence.
The book on the bottom of the stack (The Frary Family in America: 1637 - 1980 [publication date: 1981]) had this on page 45 (after a list of birth and death statistical fragments):
Charles was a farm laborer in 1860 at Hatfield, where they lived with her parents.
My parents are dead and both are scattered ashes, now. But maybe this means I will marry and move in with the in-laws? (doubtful).
spiralsheep)Open the nearest book at page 45 and read the first sentence, which will predict your sex life for the next year (but I sincerely trust not!).
Okay, there were two books close to hand when I first encountered this. They were stacked. The big one on the bottom was nearest to my fingertips in strict measurement of inches/centimeters, but (being on the bottom) was harder to get to to open, and flip to page 45.
The book on top (No More Masks! an Anthology of Poems by Women [publication date: 1973]) had this on Page 45:
"A Petticoat"
by Gertrude Stein.
A light white, a disgrace, an ink spot, a rosy charm.
[1914]
That's possibly a possible description of my continuing spinsterhood (or dodgy laundry habits). But it's not exactly a sentence.
The book on the bottom of the stack (The Frary Family in America: 1637 - 1980 [publication date: 1981]) had this on page 45 (after a list of birth and death statistical fragments):
Charles was a farm laborer in 1860 at Hatfield, where they lived with her parents.
My parents are dead and both are scattered ashes, now. But maybe this means I will marry and move in with the in-laws? (doubtful).
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Date: 2012-01-25 09:40 pm (UTC)I think this means you're going to write lots of porn and have typing-sex in 2012. Aim for disgraceful but charming!
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Date: 2012-01-25 09:54 pm (UTC)In any case, looking to Gertrude Stein for one's yearly guidance can't go all wrong, can it?
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Date: 2012-01-25 10:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-26 01:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-26 01:50 pm (UTC)* Note: although I reserve the right to exempt my own meme result from this general policy. ;-)
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Date: 2012-01-26 03:55 pm (UTC)This is not always the case, with all words, but the very meaning of "Moderation" rather requires it.
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Date: 2012-01-26 04:20 pm (UTC)(Yes, you're correct, my meme result wasn't moderate but there are moderate forms of those activities.)
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Date: 2012-01-26 05:07 pm (UTC)I think the common feature of all three things, however, is that they're all forms of 'self'-expression which actually imposes on others.