I feel golden today :)

"The path later heads through woodland, passing the ruins of former colliery buildings, to a T-Junction."
Pathfinder Guide: Loch Lomond, Trossachs, Stirling and Clackmannan Walks

Okay, my contribution to this meme is here. Cheers.

"Tapping may not injure the trees which yield excellent all-purpose lumber"
Trees: A Guide to Familiar American Trees "a golden nature guide"

"The ability to motivate and direct this group is the true test of a nonprofit managers interpersonal skills."

Strategic Marketing for Nonprofit Organizations
Kotler and Andreasen

("this group" is the middle third of volunteers that is neither highly motivated by the mission or higlhy un-motivated by the mission.)

Finding this book closest reminds me that I must clean my office!

"One might have sought long in much larger and older societies for three brothers-in-law more distinguished or more scholarly than Edward Everett, Dr. Frothingham, and Mr. Adams."

From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams.

"The easy habit of configuration which had lasted through several centuries yields with the Renaissance to continuous, lineal, and uniform sequences for time and space and personal relationship alike."

- Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy

"For an hour the procession of grotesques passed before the eyes of the old man, and then, although it was a painful thing to do, he crept out of bed and began to write."

-Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

"What's going on?" the Devil says. "Open the door and let me out--this isn't funny."

from short story: "Lull" by Kelly Link, in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 16th Annual Collection

"Then the Legislature goes and passes a law increasin' the liquor tax or some other tax in New York City, takes a half of the proceeds for the State Treasury and cuts down the farmers' taxes to suit. It's as easy as rollin' off a log--when you've got a good workin' majority and no conscience to speak of."

It's from Plunkitt of Tammany Hall which is a clever little book first published in 1905. Plunkitt was a ward boss and the book is a colleciton of his musings on politics. There are any number of great qualities to the book. With chapters entitled "Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft," it's an entertaining slice of political machine "wisdom."

I like seeing what reading material everyone has nearby...

My entry

i just moved. so my books are in a box. when i opened the box, this is the book on top:

"And-at precisely, the same time, in precisely the same perception--I am reduced to tears at the thought of you leaving us, and it is simply intolerable, it is radically unacceptable, I will rage against the dying of that light until I can rage no longer, and my voice is ragged with futile screams against the insult of samsara." - page 23, Ken Wilber's letter to Huston Smith, excerpt from the book One Taste.

very cool exercise ;-)

"Search your memory, Dr. Seldon. Perhaps there are fifty-two or fifty-three? Or perhaps even more?"
-Isaac Asimov, 'The Foundation Trilogy'

posted here

"It's a slight improvement on last year when we all got pocket Bibles, but mine was in Korean."

Planet Janet by Dyan Sheldon

"He would not take back the blankets, but he took the letter"

From Hui: A Study of Maori Ceremonial Gatherings by Anne Salmond. This sentence is from a narrative about how some Maori chiefs tried to rescind the Treaty of Waitangi the day after they signed it. They tried to rescind it because the Governor came the next day with far fewer things than he had promised and the chiefs felt cheated.

Set the tone nicely for the next 150+ years of Maori/Pakeha relations.

"The social engineer and technologist, on the other hand, will hardly take much interest in the origin of institutions, or in the original intentions of their founders (althought there is no reason why he should not recognize the fact that 'only a minority of social institutions are consciously designed, while the vast majority have just "grown", as the undesigned results of human actions')."
--Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume I

"Kings are but the hampered servants of parliament and people; parliaments sit in chains forged by their constituency; the editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patron, and be content to utter only half of two-thirds of his mind; no clergyman is a free man and may speak the whole truth, regardless of his parish's opinions; writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public."

Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi.

A strange heart. I myself cannot account for it.

Herzog, Saul Bellow

A strange heart. I myself cannot account for it.

Herzog, Saul Bellow

"In all it's practical uses, science works to entrench anthropocentrism."

-John Gray, Straw Dogs (Thoughts On Humans and Other Animals)

"Rebus stood back and angled his head upwards."
Ian Rankin, Dead Souls

"He was a floating bachelor with a grey mane and that nimbleness that only fat men have."

- 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy', John Le Carré

Raza dva na etikh vecherinkakh poprekrasnodushestvovali v pochti polnom semeinom sostave i my.
'A couple of times virtually my entire family went to these evening gatherings as well, to strut their beautiful souls a little.'

--Boris Lossky, "V russkoi Prage [In Russian Prague] (1922-1927)," in Minuvshee 16.

What I like about this sentence is the wonderful nonce-verb poprekrasnodushestvovat', formed on the adjective prekrasnodushnyi 'beautiful-souled, starry-eyed, absurdly idealistic'; my translation is not satisfactory, but you get the general attitude of sardonic affection, I hope. (The Losskys had been kicked out of Russia along with other refractory philosophico-religious types in 1922 and made their way to Prague, where the exile community met with Russophile Czechs for evenings of high-minded conversation.)

I'm impressed. An excellent selection of books!!

"First the world's greatest mountains, and then this."

At The Mountains of Madness. H.P. Lovecraft

These guys are all just cheating. Sure we've got all those erudite tomes within 5 metres too, but the nature of living space being what it is, the 'honestly nearest' book happened to be a free book I got on a training course recently, unopened until now.

"One of the new leadership challenges is to visualise the kind of knowledge system that would be useful in a particular setting or situation, and bring it into being."
From A Manager's Guide to Leadership, by Pedler, Burgoyne, Burdell.

Wow. I've put it back, where it is likely to remain unopened until you provide further instruction, Caterina.

Remove unused unzipped files and other duplicate files.
- from page 23 of "Degunking Windows" by Joli Ballew and Jeff Duntemann

Sandy McMurray, Editor
http://www.TechStuff.ca/

"Baskerville's influence was particularly strong in England"

"Come, come," William said, "it is obvious you are hunting for Brunellus, the abbot's favorite horse, fifteen hands, the fastest in your stables, with a dark coat, a full tail, small round hoofs, but a very steady gait, small head, sharp ears, big eyes."

Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

They are, we will suppose, a Merchant and a Physician, or in other words, an Equilateral Triangle and a Pentagon: how am I to distinguish them?

--Flatland, Edwin Abbott

"However, save is one of the feature groups that the user must select so if you plan to save work during the evaluation period it is necessary to choose the save group when starting the session."
- Audio Editing with Cool Edit, Richard Riley

"However, if you have one of the multi-voyage tickets, you can jump on and off buses with abandon (but do not punch your pass)."
Paris and Versailles Blue Guide

"The function power is called twice in the line
printf("%d %d %d\n", i, power(2,i), power(-3,i));"

The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie

"It should be noted that fetus and partus differ from ordinary fruits in that they bear a much less constant ratio in value to the thing itself: it is not so plainly fair that they might go in lieu of interest."

- W. W. Buckland (The Roman Law of Slavery)

She belted around herself a long brown gown, did a turn on her toes so that its frayed edges flew out, and went out wary into the still cold hall.

Because of where I'm sitting there were a number of books at equal distance from me, however the easiest to reach for, and unknown to me because of the angle until I pulled it out, was Little, Big by John Crowley.

"In scalar context, returns the number of elements in the hash."

"We pronounce (P(x = ai|y = bj) 'the probability that x equals ai, given y equals bj'.

David Mackay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms

Can't you see I'm working?!? :)

"Likewise the 1455 lawsuit between Fust and Gutenberg does not show the latter making any claims to having invented a printing method; Fust and Schoeffer's colophon to their 1457 Psalter refers to an adinventione, which Hessels believed implied a new development of an existing method rather than a claim to invention."

"The following steps take you through the necessary tasks for creating a blog."

"Under this weight of weapons the enemy were forced to abandon the palisade and the towers."

-- pg. 23, 'The Book of War', by John Keegan

It's funny; surrounded by computers, but I had trouble finding a book. Took me a moment to recall that I had reading material in my backpack.

"A cold I caught from her led me to cancel a fourth assignment, nor was I sorry to break an emotional series that threatened to burden me with heart-rending fantasies and peter out in dull disappointment."
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita.

Someone just returned it, and it was the closest book to me.

"In other words, there should be feedback of some kind. There should also be some way of checking it for accuracy, or validating that the information is correct."
- Remote Viewing Secrets, a Handbook by Joseph McMoneagle

By studying only the general social forms, as Durkheim did (cf. Bibliography), one runs the risk of positing as the principle of greater leniency in punishment processes of individualization that are rather one of the effects of the new tactics of power, among which are to be included the new penal mechanisms.

"If the premise that the combined activities correspond to a distinct third activity is accepted, then using the primary activity rule would place establishments performing the same combination of activities in differant industries, therby violating the production principle of NAICS."

North American Industry Classification System, Office of Management and Budget

...I believe you were instrumental in persuading Lennox to come back to us." -- Ramsey Campbell, The Darkest Part of the Woods

"Imagine a glass full of water standing on a table." De Bono's Thinking Guide by Edward De Bono

"In the history of the draft going back to 1965 no team had ever held seven first-round draft picks." Moneyball by Michael Lewis

"Josh, men will always go to war, because men will always be men, and war will always be fun(italic)."

Book One of Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter's "Times Eye" "A Time Odyssey: 1" Ballantine Books, 2004

'Uh-huh.'

Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

I grabbed the brightest colored book from the shelf behind me:

You might also be pleased to learn that File Manager won't display the flying paper animation when you move or copy files -- an added bonus.

-- Windows 98 Annoyances, O'Reilly publishing, by David A. Karp

"There are so many wonderful images-all it takes is a little imagination and a good font comination to make effective and award winning pieces with clip art."

Robin Williams and John Tollet's Design Workshop

"Not surprisingly, this spelled good news for the U.S. advertising industry, wich in 1994 saw a spending increase of 8.6 percent over the previous year."
No Logo, by Naomi Klein

"Cool pages are a flash in the pan."
HTML: The Definitive Guide, Third Edition
by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

"Also consider psychographics, which are the lifestyle behaviors and attitudes of your ideal customers."
Search Engine Advertising
Catherine Seda

"We heard it was a Veneer," said Percy, yelling from the grill.

At Home in Mitford, Jan Karon

"I shall be silent!"
Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmund Rostand

"Well, my book is written - let it go," Mark Twain answered from Hartford a few days later.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

In my study/office, next to the computer desk, that would be, from the far right of the shelf but the far left of the social spectrum, William Kotzwinkle, Doctor Rat:

"Excellent, very smooth work."

And, I did post it on my blog.

What part of 'your journal' is so confusing. I posted mine here.

Though *The Continuous Monument* remains one of the
most renowned projects in the SUPERSTUDIO oeuvre,
eliciting much critical comment, there were other
intriguing projects that continued to examine the
alienated relationship between human beings and
their "natural" environment.

SUPERSTUDIO: Life Without Objects
Peter Lang and William Menking

"Once programmed, a synthetic city is made to proliferate and to interact with all the other cities, according to local conditions for the application of the model."

- Mutations by Rem Koolhaas, Stefano Boeri, Stanford Kwinter, Nadia Tazi, and Hans Ulrich Obrist

"Once programmed, a synthetic city is made to proliferate and to interact with all the other cities, according to local conditions for the application of the model."

- Mutations, by Rem Koolhaas et al

I'm surprised by the number of novels. I expected more technical books.

My entry.

"Almost certainly it would be too fast for him to transfer his grip from the rope to the ring, and if he let go at that speed he would go bulleting into the deck, bulkheads, or passengers like a stone from a slingshot."

James White "Lifeboat"

"A good approximation of their return is simply the coupon"
The Intelligent Asset Allocator

"I put a coin in the jukebox, the music came on and I shadow boxed to it."

From War All the Time: Poems 1981-1984 by Bukowski

"The girl sounded as though her tongue were caught in her mouth."

-From ZZ Packer's Drinking Cofee Elsewhere

"You're in charge!"

– The Message, Eugene H. Peterson (Translation of the Bible. This is in the middle of the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6)

"Portrayal of nine full cycles here enforces comfortable comparisons of between- and within-cycle variation, and also exposes an apparent growth trend (perhaps it is merely improved observation) in the wingspan of recent cycles."

-Envisioning Information, Edward Tufte

"To appreciate what the inner lives of great scientists/mathematicians/metaphysicians are like, we need only lie here and try to form a truly rigourous and coherent idea - as opposed to a fuzzy or Newsweekish idea - of what we really mean by 'omnipotent', or 'integer', or 'illimitable', or 'finite but unbounded'.

-David Foster Wallace, "Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity"

I don't know anything about it, and what's more I don't want to know.
Larousse, French-English Dictionary

"The approach to new media just discussed does not foreground any particular cultural period as the source of algorithms that are eventually encoded in computer software."

From "New Media from Borges to HTML" by Lev Manovich in "The New Media Reader". I assure you that it would be more likely that I would have something fluffy like "Abandon in Place" near to me, as I usually scan blogs from bed in the morning. It just happens that I'm at my desk so my bedside table is farther from me than a pile of new media theory texts.

Our answers reveal the systems of classification that form the very foundations of our understanding.
-I A for the WWW
O'reilly Press
by Louis Rosenfeld & Peter Morville

"But algorithms do not have to be designed after accurate or even true models of biological systems: efficiency, robustnes, and flexibility are the driving criteria, not biolgical accuracy."

Swarm Intelligence, From Natural to Artificial Systems

"But whatever it was meant to be it is no longer that". Pg. 23, 'Better than Sex' by Hunter S. Thompson.

"Another detail about Duncan is, when he talks, he spits."
Chuck Palahniuk, "Lullaby"

Let γ_j be the fractional part of β_j, j=1,2,...,i, that is, γ_j = β_j - [β_j].
—Jiri Matousek, Lectures on Discrete Geometry
(Underscores indicates subscripts, and the brackets are really floors.)

"Debts and promissory notes, tenancies and sub-tenancies, sales, exchanges, donations, revocations, disputes - they set down every last move they made in contract which they countersigned before the law." Artemesia, Alexander Lapierre

"Cody is a funny one."

Marian Keyes, the Other Side of the Story

next to GR was a copy of "Jennifer Government" by Max Barry:

"But first he came across an NRA office: a squat, professional-looking building with National Rifle Association Ltd embossed in black letters on gray"

National High Five Day; April 15

"The size of a room may determine proportion, but it needn't limit your imagination."

A atrange revelation, the closest book, was the Pottery Barn design collection, a collection of three books, so I chose the one on top. I could have grabbed something more interesting from the other room, but these were closest and since they DO have a binding and words, they are considered books however, being a book of design, was mostly photos. I had to go to the next page with sentences, being page 25. So, I didn't cheat by going to another room, but kinda cheated by going to a differant page!

The Notes Memo Pad - Web Dialog (GN100) screen is used to view and update various details regarding the application. - From a training guide.

"A man with both a Ph.D and a D.D. was obviously worth attention, even if most of what he said was totally incomprehensible to them."
- Robert Anton Wilson, Schrodinger's Cat

Can't miss that synchronicity.

"I went to the closet in the hallway and pulled out the box that contained the dusty files and all the voices of the dead"

From Lost Light by Michael Connelly

The epicurist ate his own feet.
Mmmmm. They tasted good.

"She would say, 'Everything's wonderful; Susie's adorable," and meanwhile, Susie's in the library hiding."

Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, by Rachel Simmons

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"As far as I know, that was the first time a piano was used in a jazz band" - Jazz Anecdotes by Bill Crowe.

"I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language--the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth."

-The Short Prose Reader, Chapter (Prereading: Thinking about the essay in advance) pg. 23, sentence five

"I said just now that I lived practically rent-free."
- Iris Murdoch, Under the net.

"Arithmetic operators are evaluated in the order your math teacher taught you (exponentiation before multiplication; multiplication before addition)."
-Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen & Jon Orwant, Programming Perl

"By graduating the blue of the background, more intense towards the top and lighter at the bottom, Bellini evokes the sky, in contrast with Baldovinetti in the 'Portrait of the Lady in Yellow'." -- The National Gallery Companion Guide

I always try and keep fine art close by. The above is part of an description of Giovanni Bellini's The Doge Leonardo Loredan.

agravated assault n (1925)an assault that is more serious than a common assault: as a: an assault combined with an attempt to commit a crime b: any of various assaults so defined by statute

Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Tenth Edition
I'm procratinating again...

"By definition chars are just small integers, so char variables and constants are identical to ints in arithmetic expressions"

The C Programming Language, Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie.

"Some of the little white boats are still piled up
against each other, or lie on their sides, stove in,
and not yet salvaged, if they ever will be, from the last bad storm,
like torn-open, unanswered letters."
- Elizabeth Bishop, "The Bight"

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry

"The only notable exceptions we found were several women who said that when they were young, they were so naive and inexperienced that they lied, making up stories about sexual adventures simply to conceal their innocence; at the time they were embarrassed by the extent of their naivete."

-- Steven Carter and Julia Sokol, "What Really Happens In Bed"

As an informal "management trainee,"Bucky was not, however, exempted from the arduous working conditions of that era.
Llyod Steven Sieden, Buckminster Fuller's Universe

"In their case, they share precisely the same vocabulary (to the letter) but have a slightly different syntax."
HTML for the World Wide Web, 5th edition

Finally, at fifteen, things began to look up when he went to work for a barber and his wife who ran a shop on the Oude Vest.
—The Colonel, by Alanna Nash.

"You think the world's going to end?"

The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy - Douglas Adams

The wobbly Poliwag is more comfortable in water than on land.
- Pojo's Unofficial Big Book of Pokemon

"Came drifting through the window to write upon the wall"

Pg23 line 5
A Box of Rain - collected lyrics of Robert Hunter

The taxi back to New Orleans cost me forty dollars, but at least I wan't violently ill during the taxi ride, although I felt myself beginning to gag several times.

A confederacy of dunces, the funniest book in the English language

"c. Connect the power pack to the NB1300 ADSL Modem and switch on the power switch."

ADSL Modem User Guide: NetComm Limited, Lane Cove NSW

"There is an inevitable connection between mind and body."

A Golden Treasury of Wisdom
Mahatma Gandhi

Funny exercise. Entry posted to my weblog

"The theory of common descent solved a long-standing puzzle of natural history."

-- What Evolution Is, Ernst Mayr.

"That is not a valid option."
--- More Than a Carpaenter by Josh McDowell

"Thw Wedding at Cana"
--- The Life of Jesus

Hmmm, two books between the covers...
Both are about the life of Jesus.
Got it from a Christ celebration event.

Et comme le problème du rangement d'une multitude à première vue chaotique se pose peut-être avec plus d'acuité, sur le plan religieux, devant l'étourdissante cohue des dieux et des déesses, il m'a paru opportun de montrer à quel point ce panthéon lui-même avait été systématisé, en une hiérarchie équilibrée et normalement stable, dans laquelle chaque divinité, à sa place et avec ses prérogatives, jouait un rôle irremplaçable, contribuant ainsi, pour sa part, comme une roue dans la mécanique, à faire fonctionner la gigantesque machine, parfaitement huilée, de l'univers. Jean Bottéro, Mésopotamie.

Actually I could have picked any of twenty books in three different languages, depending on whether I lean forward towards the computer, or backwards into the chair. This was the one on the forward-leaning corner, at an arms length right of me.

"The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic--their retinas are one yard high."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

But Lot’s wife looked back longingly and was turned into a pillar of salt.

si displicuit sententia, fremitu aspernantur, sin placuit, frameas concutiunt: honoratissimum assensus genus est armis laudare.

Tacitus, Germania

"Although she is an important media personality, I don't think anyone would describe her as a journalist."

(Rebecca Blood writing about Oprah Winfrey- in "The Weblog Handbook")

"Under that reading -- which we think explains the very narrow possible Coleman exception to Raines -- appellants fail because they continued, after their votes, to enjoy ample legislative power to have stopped prosecution of the 'war.'"

West's Federal Reporter,, 3rd Series, Vol. 203

(The case is Campell v. Clinton, in which a California Congressman, and several others, sued President Clinton in 1999 for directing US participation in NATO airstrikes in Yugoslavia without Congressional authorization. The Congressmen lost.)

"In other words, human society is still related to the facts of geography not as they are but in no small measure as they have been approached in the course of history."

--Democratic Ideals and Reality by Sir Halford J. Mackinder

State's asserted interest in protecting integrity and continuity of validly elected officials, and in protecting the people's interest in seeing their elected officials remain in office unless voters show substantial interest in whether the official is removed, was not a compelling state interest, as required to justify, against First Amendment free speech and Fourteenth Amendment due process and equal protection challenge, statutory requirement that no vote cast in recall election be counted for any candidate unless the voter also voted on the recall question itself; there was no requirement as to number of voters who must vote on the recall, and the requirement had effect of reducing the vote on the successor question, as it disallowed votes by otherwise properly registered voters.

West's Federal Supplement Second November 3, 2003 "pocket part"

Sorry. But I'm at work.

The fourth band is the multiplier and since the color is brown (1) which effectively adds one zero to the first three digits to indicate 1,500 ohms.

MacDonald, Lorne, _Basic Circuit Analysis For Electronics_. The Technical Education Press, 1992.

"The supplied anchor plate is designed only for mounting a child restraint."
Acura Integra owners manual. 1995

"he thought he recognized her voice and peaked into the hall"

-the day of the locust"

"The personal computer made personal computing affordable for the masses, and after all, Windows/DOS is one of the most popular operating systems on the face of the earth."

-UNIX in Plain English, Third Edition by Kevin Reichard and Eric Foster-Johnson

(Notice the source. I picked up the unix book on my desk, and THAT's the sentence I got?!! AAARGH!)

From the language of this extract, and from the reference in the title of the book to Adoram, which we know was one of the names of Solomon's tax collector, it is evident that the author of the catechism has confounded Hiram Abif, who came out of Tyre, with Adoniram, the son of Abda, who had always lived at Jerusalem; that is to say, with unpardonable ignorance of Scriptural history and Masonic tradition, he has supposed the two to be one and the same person.

-- Mackey's Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Volume I.

"The ratio h*d/h*1, as thus obtained, is plotted with relation to the parameters bLd/An2 and M in figure 16, where Ld is the distance between center lines of the two bridges and b is the common width of each constriction."

Hydraulics of Bridge Waterways, Joseph N Bradley, August 1960.

"Labour historians and sociologists have investigated the relationship between social change and the shaping of production processes in great detail and have also been concerned with the influence of technological form upon social relations." Judy Wajcman - Feminism Confronts Technology

"l'originalità di Boezio la ritroviamo anche nell'applicazione della maniera antica della satira menippea, combinazione di prosa e di poesia, al dialogo filosofico."
Boezio - De consolatio Philosophiae 524

"Recognizing the extensive degree of misinformationabout marijuana as a drug, we have tried to demythologize it," the commission explained.

reefer madness, eric schlosser

"Fill your black hull / With white moonlight." (I've also posted it here.)

- HEI, SIGNORE!DIMENTICATE IL CONTO!
- GRR!
- GLIP!HO IL SOSPETTO CHE NON SIA RIIMASTO MOLTO SODDISFATTO DEL SERVIZIO
GIUNGE INFINE L'ORA DI CHIUSURA ...

pippo & gancio fast food
topolino - walt disney - n° 1757

And it was one of these mapmakers, Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, who was to make the first positive identification of the volcano-island that would cause such mischief in the years ahead.

Krakatoa, The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883.
(Simon Winchester)

"For the common late-onset Alzheimer's, however, one major genetic risk has been discovered: apolipoprotein E, or APOE."
-- The Memory Bible, Gary Small

Maybe I need to keep more interesting books on my night stand.

"They anchored off the Hague and he spent a week on land, says it's a very neat town in every way".

From Sara George's The Journal of Mrs Pepys: Portrait of a Marriage. It's not my book but was the closest to hand.

"But this claim seems to assume (G2), which we have just rejected."

(Parfit, "Reasons and Persons")

"There are many words for push, take, shove, carry, load, and no words for love, or happiness, or the sounds which birds make in the morning."

--Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

A couple more posted here.

"Once again, this is akin to conducting STD surveys in convents."

- Robert Young Pelton, The World's Most Dangerous Places

Y muchos de entre ellos se enamoraron de la belleza y la historia del mundo, que vieron comenzar y desarrollarse como en una vision.

Frem The Silmarillion

Which means in my horrible english: "And most among them loved the world's beauty and history, which they had seen start and develop like a vision".

"As the wild duck is more swift and beautiful than the tame, so is the wild--the mallard--thought, which 'mid falling dew wings its way above the ferns."

by Thoreau from The Green Studies Reader (ed. Lawerence Coupe).

"Il donnait de temps a autre de grands coup de queue pour chasser les mouches qui agitaient cette intermminable éclaircie apres la moiteur des orages."
--Jean-Christophe Ruffin. "Rouge Brésil"

In einem m + n Matrixspiel A besitzt entweder Spieler II eine optimale Strategie y mit y|(n) >0, oder I hat eine optimale Strategie x mit
Sum(i=1..m)[a|(in) x|(i) > v.

G.Owen: Spieltheorie

"Byli k sobe prilepeni, Miranda pevne objimala Richarduv krk, jeho dlane zase tiskly jeji prilehave blyskave cerne hedvabne saty, jez zvyraznovaly linie jejich stehen."

Stealing Beauty, Shirley Lowe... sorry for Czech, but my English isn't so great to translate this sentence full of erotic ;)

Kariéra: 1974-78 rozhlasový a televizní scénárista; 1978 rozhlasový producent v BBC

It´s a sentence from CV Douglas Noel Adams in his last book, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time.

The mask limits the access acquired from group ACEs.

Frisch: Essential System Administration

"We found a list of mirrors of this server there"

PHP - Creating of Internet applications (author: J.Kosek)

"(The blue marlins) feed on almost anything they can catch, with squid and pelagic fish, including assorted tuna, mackerel and dolphin, most common."

-- North American Fishing, by Ken Schultz

"---of many possible worlds."

Understading Comics by Scott McCloud

Only two words on p23:

"De apebroodbomen"

-De Kleine Prins, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The sound of cannon was always in her ears.

- Orlando by Virginia Woolf

"A definition introduces the variable's name and its type."

Stanley B. Lippman, C++ Primer (2nd Edition)

"Just as we are afraid of ghosts and of the God of the panopticon insofar as they are imaginary non-entities - that is, because they do not exist - so, according to lacan, we love God precisely because he does not exist." - Bentham, "The Panopticon Writings"

"...Faced with this overwhelming force and as pragmatists realizing what it signfied, the Quraysh conceded defeat, opened the city gates, and Muhummad took Mecca without shedding a single drop of blood..."

--Islam, Karen Armstrong

"Worse yet, safe and effective operation in the often chaotic home environment is a lot more difficult than in controllable factory settings." -- Hans Moravec, Mind Children

Blížila se půlnoc, když se rozplakal a začal zvracet. (Midnight was approaching when he started to cry and vomit.)

Sándor Márai´s "The Candles Are Burning Out"

"To show what happens when strong writing is deprived of its vigor, George Orwell once took a passage from the Bible and drained it of its blood."
-- The Elements of Style, by William Strunk and E.B. White

"One of the most important skills you can develop is a little red warning light inside your head that causes you to think, 'Wait a minute, this is starting to get messy.'"

Taligent's Guide to Designing Programs: Well-mannered Object-oriented Design in C++. Taligent. Addison-Wesely Publishing Company: Reading, Mass. 1994.

It's important to define organization realistically.

"The Commission must be the pacesetter in the accounting field," Douglas said at his inaugural press conference.

The Number, by Alex Berenson

"He noticed the burning gaze which the old man directed at his Cross."

Stendhal, The Red and the Black.

But you are on the right road when you begin now to think about all this, and to learn to know yourself, what makes you act as you do, and why you have these strange thoughts.

For Girls Only, Frank Howard Richardson, M.D.

I followed these directions from sarah hatter, who got them from peter, who got them from you. My nearest book was also Gravity's Rainbow, but my edition has:

"He likes to tell them about fireflies; English girls don't know about fireflies, which is about all Slothrop knows for sure about English girls."

(D) be unable to adjust and suffer harm

--from Kaplan's SAT II Biology E/M 2003-4 Edition

We use this term more narrowly than some consultants.

Unfortunately, a five-pound bag of flour is about 19 cups.

~Desperate Measures, by Matthew Amster-Burton
from 'Best Food Writing 2003'

The King Betrayed by Deborah Chester, page 23, sentence 5:

"All Grethori were savages, no matter which tribe they belonged to, but a few of the eastern tribes had adapted to forming loose alliances with the Netherans, engaging in trade and sometimes selling their services as mercenaries."

"The Nagan Magistrate came to see me in the morning, so I sent a letter for Kobu Magistrate by his courtesy."

Nanjung Ilgi, War Diary of Admiral Yi Sun-shin

Page 23 of Richard P. Feynman's "QED" does not have 5 sentences. In fact it has only the first part of a single sentence, with the rest overleaf.

More details in my blog last sunday.

So I broke your meme, Caterina, sorry.

Stu

That's what she gets for letting you play with her memes, stu.....Actually, I ran into the same problem. I opened a guide to California wildflowers. The author loved to write long Faulknerian descriptions of the flowers, so he filled up the page with three and a half sentences about broad-fruited bur-reed!

"In PHP, the type of a variable is determined by the value assigned to it"

"PHP and MySQL" SAMS

"Student mediums sit in the audience watching and sometimes get up to give their own messages."

Lilydale: Christine Wicker

So it has been claimed that Beckett deliberatly created the myth that he was born on Friday the thirteenth.

Some types of hierarchy found in everyday life are not inheritance hierarchies.

Tim Budd - An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming, £rd edition

Le Général Proazamm a été transféré à une autre charge au Commandement des Sables Mouvants de Bételgeuse, d'où nous est parvenue, d'ailleurs, ce matin même la nouvelle de sa mort accidentelle alors qu'il inspectait le Marais numéro 26.
-- Umberto Eco, 'Comment voyager avec un saumon'

Sadie "All I remember is waiting in that hospital with you, me and Tommy wondering if Brede was going to die...Brede had never harmed a soul and here she was the one that comes out worst when there's trouble..."

this is one of my lines from the playscript Across the Barricades by Joan Lingard

The nearest book by me would just happen to be An Integrated Approach to Health Sciences and I turned to page 23 sentence 5 and it is "The transverse plane, therefore, separates the body into a superior portion and an inferior portion."

"A British Air Inspector had already been appointed, earlier in 1931, to the staff of the Inspector-General of the Iraqi Army."

Spitfires over Israel

Schwann cells are found in the peripheral nervous system.

Kandel, Schwartz & Jessel, "Principles of Neural Science." Third Edition. Appleton & Lange: Norwalk, CT

He felt heat in his body, but the pain center of his brain was shut down, so the sensation felt like warm summery sunshine, not like torture.

John C Wright, "The Golden Transcendence"

"The needed tools and equipment are dictated by each aspect of the process: documentation, coolection, packaging, and transportation."

(Electronic Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for First Responders, July 2001, U.S. Dept of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice.)

"She hugged it and it hugged her back."
The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy

"At this point an alert student would wonder if there is in mechanical systems a corresponding dissipative element." -- Circuits, Devices and Systems, 5th edition (Smith, R & Dorf, R).

If he has done his work badly, on the other hand, the reader feels unconvinced even when the writer presents events he actually witnessed in life.

John Gardner
The Art of Fiction

"Well, said Cordelia excitedly, "we ran a competition!"

From Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

"Taste and add more garlic, salt, lemon juice, or cumin as needed."

How to Cook Everything, by Mark Bittman, from a recipe for hummus.

"Powell suggests that the different number words attested in Sumerian texts may reflect several dialects."

Like a bird, like a swallow, like a slender gull the glistening ship sped forward.

Beowulf

What was so appealing about politics that we assigned it superiority over science by subjecting even the most scentific industries to political regulation?

Makers and Takers by Edmund Contoski

attache It is not a formal title. -- Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law 2002

'I've heard they went on the water after dinner in the moonlight,' said Old Noakes; 'and it was Drogo's weight as sunk the boat.'

"Most of these figurative maps were probably used for ceremonial and ritual purposes."

Elements of Cartography, sixth edition, by; Arthur H. Robinson, Joel L. Morrison, Phillip C. Muehrcke, A. Jon Kimerling and Stephen C. Guptil

We have to be clear about definitions.

Claude Levi Strauss, The Savage Mind

Shaking her head, Joanna drove on through the gate and into the clinic parking lot.

J A Jance "Dead to rights"

"unprofessional"

the oxford english dictionary

I don't know what edition of the OED Gréag is using, but the fifth sentence on p. 23 of my (first) edition is "His Highnesse comes post.. of as able bodie as when he number'd thirty."

The closest three books are dictionaries. Next, "New Zealand Spiders - an Introduction" which has a diagram of spider anatomy on page 23. Fifth proximity is "The Mammoth Book of Journalism" and the fifth sentence on page 23, from an 1854 account of The Battle of Balaclava, is of a length and grammatic complexity that would not be found in today's newspapers. Here goes:

"By sheer steel and sheer courage Enniskillen and Scot were winning their desperate way right through the enemy's squadrons, and already grey horses and redcoats had appeared right at the rear of the second mass, when, with irresistible force, like one bolt from a bow, the 1st Royals, the 4th Dragoon Guards, and the 5th Dragoon Guards rushed at the remnants of the first line of the enemy, went through it was though it were made of pasteboard, and dashing on the second body of Russians, as they were still disordered by the terrible assault of the Greys and their companions, put them to utter rout."

"Your signature however, does more than identify you."
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain -- Betty Edwards

kraepelin described manic-depressive psychosis, paraphrenia and other as separate nosological units
psychiatry textbook

Beware anything that would sully that mirror in you; it is nearly always a good thing, the good thing that is not the best.

Oswald Chambers,
My Utmost for His Highest

‘Beware anything that would sully that mirror in you; it is nearly always a good thing, the good thing that is not the best’.

Oswald Chambers
My Utmost for His Highest
January 23

Each has organized themselves to find the ways to deal most effectively with their environments, given their available resources.

- "Riding the Waves of Culture" by Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner

Science is operated according to the judicial system.

From Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh

"I have such a book at home and you just copy from that.

Mustard Seed - Osho
Czech version

"A high correlation was found between the rankings done by designers and patrons, and a much lower correlation was found between the rankings done by these groups and by museum professionals."

- Activity-Centered Design by Gay and Hembroke

"The alternative to modeling the machine is to model the problem you're trying to solve."

Thinking in C++
Bruce Eckel

Very ominous results in my case...

"Wanneer ik bemerk dat een man of een groep gemakkelijk en aanhoudend bijval gewint, dan komt in mij sterk het vermoeden op, dat in die man of groep, misschien naast uitmuntende hoedanigheden, iets buitengemeen onzuivers schuilt"

Roughly translated* :
" When i notice that a man or a group easily and continuously wins acclaim, then I have a strong suspicion, that this man or group, although they may have exceptional points, hides something
insidious"

*(note this from a Spanish - Dutch - English translation, Spanish-English may differ)

J. Ortega y Gasset "De opstand der horden" / "La Rebelion de las Masas"

"I'm boss here, and as long as I am, you will use gentlemanly language when you address your sister.

James T. Farrell "Young Lonnigan"

Your site has been posted in New Zealand "Net Guide" a widely-read monthly so expect a Kiwi tusani! My entry:

In fhort, after the Governour had made me repeated Offers of Service, I took leave of him; he wou'd needs fee me as far as without the Court of his Houfe, and gave me Soldiers who accompany'd me till they faw me imbark.

A Voyage to Arabia Foelix--English translation, 1742 (things were different then George!)

This does not mean, though, that cats are smug, even if they exhibit what looks to us like smugness, a kind of arrogant superiority.

He was a