Oh all right
Because Flip asked me to, here are the rules:
1. Open the nearest book to where you are sitting. Don't reach for anything cool or hip, make it truly the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence. (The instructions don't say whether this should be the fifth complete sentence or the fifth including whatever incomplete sentence begins the page. You're on your own here. )
4. Post in your blog the 5th, 6th and 7th sentences, along with these instructions.
5. Upon completing this, enlightenment will be yours. Or at least somebody's.
This is what I got from the nearest book at hand:
Her father soon began to preach again to Anne about the necessity of being tough. "I know you feel like you can't handle going back to college after what you've been through", he would say "but you have to try. Giving up is absolutely the worst thing you could do."
1. Open the nearest book to where you are sitting. Don't reach for anything cool or hip, make it truly the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence. (The instructions don't say whether this should be the fifth complete sentence or the fifth including whatever incomplete sentence begins the page. You're on your own here. )
4. Post in your blog the 5th, 6th and 7th sentences, along with these instructions.
5. Upon completing this, enlightenment will be yours. Or at least somebody's.
This is what I got from the nearest book at hand:
Her father soon began to preach again to Anne about the necessity of being tough. "I know you feel like you can't handle going back to college after what you've been through", he would say "but you have to try. Giving up is absolutely the worst thing you could do."
posted by Tom at 4:12 PM
7 Comments:
Tom,
Your rules for enlightenment are interesting. What if it was pg. "321"? I guess some books aren't that long, and you would come to Nothing :) Anyway, also interesting along those Eastern lines, my three sentences were, "Western cultural values, rather than a Confucian worldview, shaped the industrial revolution and its amazing creation of wealth. Some of the results have been good, some evil. But they are related to underlying Western cultural values, which are a strange mixture of historic Christianity and Enlightenment naturalism."
Speaking of resentments and coming to Nothing...I think I resent the Information Age governed by Cyberspace. This past week I lost about four months (at least) worth of work because our server crashed, due to a virus combined with "bad voltage". Took me a while to acutally admit with myself and God that it had actually happened. Your resentments about the lawn, the car, the pets that don't necessarily choose to stay, and the ballistic blowups of an unpredictable female all made me chuckle.
Anyway, I only know John Kaliski from an interview that I had with him this past time that I was looking for a job. It's sort of unfortunate that he didn't hire me, because he is in fact in interesting guy (rather than a business man clothed in the title, "Architect"), but (ironically), he couldn't afford me (at least that's what he said). Hhmmm. Maybe I should think abuot that one; because I certainly also resent the "business" of Architecture - what one famouse architect called "the marketplace of Architecture". I thought, based on some of the conversation in my interview with him, along with some other stuff (partially simply the fact that he is gifted, intelligent and well-learned), that maybe he was Jewish, which meant maybe you ahd run across him (because you said you knew some Architects who were city planners).
Blessings on your venture of "getting out of the muck" this coming year.
Jason
Tom,
You may certainly provide a link to my blog on your blog. That would be an honor, and just cool.
Thanks for the conciliatory words about loosing work. I have to say,I'm sure I had no where near the emotional or spiritual attachment to the "work" I lost that Hemingway had to his. I'm not involved in much design where I work, and pretty much just serve as an endentured servant to my boss's random aesthetic fantasies govenred primarily by his Beamer in the driveway. I feel like an Oxen whose whellbarrow (don't really know what Oxen pull stuff in) keeps breaking and yet somehow the heavy load magically ends up in its original location as if I hadn't ever carried it anywehre.
As for Kaliski - did you go to Yale? If so, then you probably know about its University Art Center and the Yale Center for British Arts. Both designed by Louis I. Kahn. I am deeply moved by his works and words, and feel connected to him on a very intimate level. I acutally feel that I met him in a dream - he came to my house and met my family and closest friends. If you would like, here are some relevant links.
Yale, British Art:
http://www.architectureweek.com/2005/0302/culture_1-1.html
General:
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/index.php?id=94
Words (indirect source):
http://www.freeessays.cc/db/5/avk6.shtml
As for Fate and Grace - I'm sort of on the adventure, so I'm no expert. But, more and more I feel that the ancient Hebrew scriptures (the "Torah") point straigh to the Death and Resurrection of Christ. And not ONLY the event, but the LIFE GIVING fount of the Grace implicit in the story! "I am the I am" correlates to "Mary, why are you crying?" (in one of the gospels, those are the first words of Christ after the Resurrection - when Mary is startled by Jesus, who she mistakes for the gardner). Anyway, I don't want to force my opinions down your throat, so I'll shut up about that now.
Thanks.
Jason
Well Tom, you did follow the rules. But from what book do your lines come? Or am I revealing an embarassing level of literary ignorance by even having to ask?
Just curious....even though that's what the cat said shortly before dying.
Cheers.
Flip: The quote is from Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain--which I got on your recommendation--and which happened to be on my desk at the moment. I'm having an interesting time reading it--not agreeing with everything--but glad you suggested it.
Did the cat die of embarrassment?
I am!
She was suppose to have left town-to live in the Pope's Garden,Castel Gondolfo.
Dear Anonymous:
Interesting and mysterious comment. I'd love to hear more.
Tom
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