[Mememe] Sentences

[mirrorshard]

(via thipe)

* Grab the book closest to you.
* Go to page 56.
* Find the 5th sentence.
* Write that sentence to this post.
* Copy these instructions as a new post to your LJ.
* Don't go looking for your favourite book, or the coolest one you have -- just grab the closest one.

'No, madame,' replied Henry; 'we are going into the city with Messieurs d'Alençon and Condé. I almost expected to find them here.'

(Also, points for identifying each others' books.)

Comments

[makyo.livejournal.com]

But the connection between the fundamental group and covering spaces runs much deeper than this, and in many ways they can be regarded as two viewpoints toward the the same thing.

Allen Hatcher, Algebraic Topology (http://www.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/AT/ATpage.html), Cambridge University Press (2002). I'm in the office at the moment, so there are only mathematics books to hand.

[mirrorshard.livejournal.com]

I can see why you gave the attribution - I'd never have guessed, except by metadata.

It's an interesting sentence - fits well into the general theme so far.