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BK Marcus is an amateur political economist with no formal education in the subject.

He works from Charlottesville, Virginia as an editorial consultant for the Ludwig von Mises Institute and managing editor of Mises.org.

He is no longer a house husband, nor a faculty spouse, but he is still a dilettante and a layabout, at least in spirit.

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5th sentence meme

June 12th, 2007 by bkmarcus

From Po Meyemu:

Grab the nearest book.

  1. Open it to page 161.
  2. Find the fifth full sentence.
  3. Post the text of the sentence along with these instructions.

Don’t search around looking for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.

OK.

“But Shamshi-Adad drafted enough of his subjects to man his garrisons and assemble an impressive defensive force, and the Elamite attack held off a little longer.”

The History of the Ancient World by Susan Wise Bauer

Posted in metablog | 11 Comments »

11 Responses

  1. On ,
    cbfox said,

    Here’s mine:

    “Recall (’Free Variables’ in Chapter 7) that an entity defined outside a handler or script object but globally visible and not redefined within it (a free variable) takes its value within the handler or script object at the time the code runs, not at the time the handler or script object is defined.”


  2. On ,
    Jon said,

    “Totalitarian control of opinion extends, however, also to subjects which at first seem to have no political significance.”

    The Road to Serfdom 1969 Printing.


  3. On ,
    Ike Hall said,

    “Though we may, by nature, have a need for religious experiences, we do not have a need for religious institutions.”

    Calculated Chaos, by Butler Shaffer


  4. On ,
    Susan Wise Bauer said,

    “They certainly couldn’t ignore Wallace’s paper entirely and connive to see Darwin given credit alone; that would have been dishonorable, unprofessional, and scandalous when the truth came out.”

    The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, by David Quammen


  5. On ,
    Mike said,

    “All of the filtering will occur in the completion routine”

    Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel

    By Greg Hoglund and James Bulter.

    Yeah, I’m a geek…


  6. On ,
    Nat said,

    “This process encourages the child to use complete sentences, to order information, and to observe carefully.”

    The Well Trained Mind, by Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise


  7. On ,
    Carolyn Fay said,

    “The same is true of Quiche Lorraine, pizzas, and Welsh Rarebit.”

    The Everything Cookbook, by Betty Watson


  8. On ,
    5th sentence meme! « Check Your Premises said,

    [...] June 15th, 2007 bkmarcus tags his readers with the 5th sentence meme. Here I go: Grab the nearest book. [...]


  9. On ,
    Brad Spangler said,

    “The sun will start warming and drying out the soil as the winter sogginess drains out, and the cover will keep any new rain and snow off the soil.”

    Square Foot Gardening, by Mel Bartholomew


  10. On ,
    …no third solution » Blog Archive » 5th Sentence meme said,

    [...] Franc echoes fifth sentence meme, by way of bkmarcus at lowercaseliberty. [...]


  11. On ,
    LA said,

    Since there were such short sentences in my book I chose this sentence:
    “Then the Newsweek cover story ‘Is This Child Gay?’ came out, and they said someone at NIH was doing genetic work on sexual orientation.”

    A separate Creation by Chandler Burr


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