a meme that's going around

[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).

Comments

[capri0mni]

Of course. Definition of Moderation, is, of course open to the moderation of the word-user.

This is not always the case, with all words, but the very meaning of "Moderation" rather requires it.

[spiralsheep]

What's the adage? "You should try everything once... except incest and morris dancing." Well, I've tried morris dancing!!1!!

(Yes, you're correct, my meme result wasn't moderate but there are moderate forms of those activities.)

[capri0mni]

Heh. Morris dancing isn't as much a thing in USA as it is there... I think our "equivalent" would be street miming in white face.

I think the common feature of all three things, however, is that they're all forms of 'self'-expression which actually imposes on others.