February 19, 2005
Another Blog Meme
Since I always find these fun and passed the last time this one (or some variant thereof) came around, I'll bite:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
The book nearest to me right now is English Masterpieces, Volume IV: Milton edited by Maynard Mack. Here's the sentence from Book I of "Paradise Lost":
Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell
From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts
Were always downward bent, admiring more
The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold,
Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed
In vision beatific.
Looks like I lucked out. This way, I look all literary.
Nice. Unfortunately, the sentence is not always so interesting...
"In the latter case there is a greater degree of recognition of the repressed than in the former-hence the dreamer's anxiety, proceeding from the superego's inability to accept such an explicit realization of desire."
Sigh. If only academics could write like Milton.
Superego? That had better be Freud you're reading and not Freudian criticism. Everyone knows the only acceptable psychoanalytic criticism is Lacanian.
your page is much more interesting than mine. all i have near me are tech manuals. ug.
Hehehe... so? What's the line?