Anyway, not having much time (or anything of interest to say), I'm finally getting to the 123 Book Meme Corn Dog tagged me for a little while ago. Here are the rules:
1. Grab the nearest book of 123 pages or more.
2. Open it to page 123.
3. Find the first 5 sentences and write them down.
4. Then invite 5 friends to do the same.
And here goes:
"Everything comes and goes
Pleasure moves on too early
And trouble leaves too slow
Just when you're thinking
You've finally got it made..."
Kind of leaves ya hangin', doesn't it? And do those count as sentences? Anyway, that's from Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics, which I suppose isn't so complete anymore, since it came out in 1997.
Actually, my quote in my senior year high school yearbook was from Joni Mitchell. It was from the song "Black Crow" on the album Hejira, and went thusly:
"In search of love and music
My whole life has been
Illumination
Corruption
And diving, diving, diving, diving
Diving down to pick up on every shiny thing
I'm like that black crow flying
In a blue sky"
No, I wasn't no damn hippie. Just pretentious and full of passion hormones.
Now I tag First Nations, oneofhismoms, Qenny, Chaucer's Bitch (whenever she gets back from Sith Efrica)and Warrior Two. I imagine they will have disparate and interesting reading at hand. Now, do the meme and send it on to five friends or little Jimmy will die!
4 comments:
I love it, especially the ending about little Jimmy dying.
Oh jings! I haven't been tagged for ages. I'd better get onto it.
ok, here tiz...and i swear this is the first book i put my hand on IN THE DARK NO LESS. im up late making marinara and chili here. so them. ahem.
"The end of the dream brings out a curious epilogue in which the dreamer at last becomes involved in the action of the dream. He and others are on a platform from which they have to descend. He does not trust the ladder because of the possible interference of hoodlums, but a woman encourages him to believe he can go down safely and this is accomplished. Since I found out from his associations that the whole performance he witnessed was part of his analysis - a process of inner change that he was experiencing - he was presumably thinking of the difficulty of getting back to everyday reality again. His fear of the "toughs" as he calls them, suggests that his fear of the Trickster archetype may appear in a collective form."
Joseph L. Henderson (on Carl Jung) Ancient Myths and Modern Man
This meme is actually fun - I really like seeing what books people have around.
I knew you'd have something interesting, FN.
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