- Grab the nearest book.
- Open the book to page 123.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
- Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
Daphne A. Brooks, Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910. Duke, 2006
C'mon, folks--let's hear about the books close to hand!
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"Another evening with lots of vodka, another night."
A Woman In Berlin by Anonymous
Oooh--great line!
"You shall make a breastplate of judgement, in skilled work; you shall make it in the style of the ephod (okay, great*); of gold, of blue and purple and crimson yarns and of fine twisted linen you shall make it." Exodus 28.15, New Oxford Annotated Bible NRSV, the book sitting next to my computer that's not a dictionary or thesaurus or an outdated UNM catalog. That's gonna be one FABULOUS breastplate!
*Thank someone for annotations. An ephod is a garment similar to an apron used in connection with the sacred lot. Probably that thing the Freemasons wear.
OK--I'll do this again...
Oh crap. This has got to be the longest sentence I've ever seen:
"We forget that democratic resolution of conflict depends not on shouting down those who have the military power but on building up majorities of those who oppose the use of force and, by really listening to our potential friends or 'enemies,' whether powerful leaders or mere 'citizens,' finding ways to entice them into hearing our case." Wayne Booth, The Rhetoric of Rhetoric, Blackwell, 2004.
(Yeah, I'm dissertating at this hour...)
"In both cases, it seems, the drunken consciousness is on its way to sobering up."
Richard E. Miller. Writing at the End of the World. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2005.
Terrific book. We're reading it in my class on social theories of argument.
Paul
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