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wombat1138) wrote2008-10-01 09:45 pm
wombat1138) wrote2008-10-01 09:45 pm
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book meme
Yeah, I know I already did this one or something like it a while back. Nevertheless, newly absorbed from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
scriva:
Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
"Note the wall-to-floor curvature, an asymptotic function of material accumulation in inverse ratio to decreasing surface area of actual tatami."
It's actually from page 57, which bears the captions for a two-page photo spread. Tokyo: A Certain Style (text/photos by Kyoichi Tsuzuki, translated by Alfred Birnbaum) is (appropriately enough) a small but densely-packed book showing how a wide range of real people in Tokyo furnish/decorate their apartments. In this case, it's the eight-tatami room of an American freelancer in "computer-related fields" who (unlike the wombat-consort) evidently shares my philosophy that the floor is the biggest storage shelf in the house (a phrase picked up from a standup comedian once seen on telly).
(Actually, the very first book I picked up was Tokyopop's English edition of Fruits Basket: Fan Book Cat, but then I remembered that the closest books weren't over there on the table, but piled up in front of my knees in a shelf under the laptop. At least the book on top of the pile wasn't Zoku Kuusou Gendai ^_^;;; )
scriva:Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
"Note the wall-to-floor curvature, an asymptotic function of material accumulation in inverse ratio to decreasing surface area of actual tatami."
It's actually from page 57, which bears the captions for a two-page photo spread. Tokyo: A Certain Style (text/photos by Kyoichi Tsuzuki, translated by Alfred Birnbaum) is (appropriately enough) a small but densely-packed book showing how a wide range of real people in Tokyo furnish/decorate their apartments. In this case, it's the eight-tatami room of an American freelancer in "computer-related fields" who (unlike the wombat-consort) evidently shares my philosophy that the floor is the biggest storage shelf in the house (a phrase picked up from a standup comedian once seen on telly).
(Actually, the very first book I picked up was Tokyopop's English edition of Fruits Basket: Fan Book Cat, but then I remembered that the closest books weren't over there on the table, but piled up in front of my knees in a shelf under the laptop. At least the book on top of the pile wasn't Zoku Kuusou Gendai ^_^;;; )