23rd Post Meme
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jenkitty, find the 23rd post you ever made and enter the 5th sentence. This is a riff on the "find the nearest book, go to page 23, and enter the 5th paragraph" meme that was going around. (I tried that one, but I was reading Hobsbawm's Age of Empire at the time, and there are only four sentences on page 23.)
This was in response to a conversation we were having about our favorite notebooks and pens, and my lament that I never seem to be able to actually fill a notebook, just like I never seem to finish a novel. I just toss out short stories and plotless fragements. Still do, but I'm getting better at it.
jenkitty, find the 23rd post you ever made and enter the 5th sentence. This is a riff on the "find the nearest book, go to page 23, and enter the 5th paragraph" meme that was going around. (I tried that one, but I was reading Hobsbawm's Age of Empire at the time, and there are only four sentences on page 23.)And then, after a while, the book is battered and the crisp white edge greyed with the grease of too many fingerprints, the insides stained here and there with coffee, and the promise of the book is faded as it fills with unanswered problems, shoddy perspectives, crude doodles, crossed-out paragraphs.
This was in response to a conversation we were having about our favorite notebooks and pens, and my lament that I never seem to be able to actually fill a notebook, just like I never seem to finish a novel. I just toss out short stories and plotless fragements. Still do, but I'm getting better at it.
