According to somebody's status on Facebook, it's "national book week", 
so you have to post the 5th sentence of the 52th page of the nearest 
book to you. (Yeah, right!)

Unfortunately, in my case that's

"Because of the mutual recursion, as well as the function each uses to 
make progress, it must also be given the function it must pass to its 
partner; therefore, both take the same pair of functions."

Rather unsurprising, really. o_O

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On 14-4-2011 23:11, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> According to somebody's status on Facebook, it's "national book week",
> so you have to post the 5th sentence of the 52th page of the nearest
> book to you. (Yeah, right!)
>
> Unfortunately, in my case that's
>
> "Because of the mutual recursion, as well as the function each uses to
> make progress, it must also be given the function it must pass to its
> partner; therefore, both take the same pair of functions."
>
> Rather unsurprising, really. o_O
>

Het /Organon/ heeft niet als doel om lezers te vertellen wat waar is, 
maar om in methoden te voorzien om de waarheid te onderzoeken en de 
wereld te begrijpen.

or

The /Organon/ is not intended to tell readers what is true, but to 
provide methods to investigate the truth and understand the world.



-- 
Apparently you can afford your own dictator for less than 10 cents per 
citizen per day.

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On 4/14/2011 14:30, andrel wrote:
> The /Organon/ is not intended to tell readers what is true, but to provide
> methods to investigate the truth and understand the world.


"No picture."

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    driving without turn signals."

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"It doesn't pay to rob trains."

from "Holding up a train" in a collection of O. Henry works.  It's page 
52 on my particular setting of font and margin size for the ebook in my 
smartphone. ;)

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Last year I did this and lucked out that my copy of "Being and 
Nothingness" was nearby.  I think I got the pretty awesome sentence:

"Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being -- like a worm."


This year I was not so fortunate:

"Let g be a multivariate function of n variables and let f be a vector 
function such that f = (f_1(θ), f_2(θ) ... f_n(θ))^T with each f_i a 
univariate function of the scalar θ."

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On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:11:24 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> According to somebody's status on Facebook, it's "national book week",
> so you have to post the 5th sentence of the 52th page of the nearest
> book to you. (Yeah, right!)

The nearest book to me is my Nook, which has, well, several hundred 
(quite possibly over a thousand) texts on it.  Gutenberg FTW (plus a good 
number of freebies from B&N as well as some that I've purchased from 
them). :)

I wonder how I should select one.  I've got three that I'm currently 
actively reading - the others, largely are there for reference and as an 
"if I get around to it" list.

Jim

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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> "Because of the mutual recursion, as well as the function each uses to 
> make progress, it must also be given the function it must pass to its 
> partner; therefore, both take the same pair of functions."

  Sounds like a book about dating.

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On 16/04/2011 02:27 PM, Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> "Because of the mutual recursion, as well as the function each uses to
>> make progress, it must also be given the function it must pass to its
>> partner; therefore, both take the same pair of functions."
>
>    Sounds like a book about dating.

[insert witty remark here]

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"La position sociale du banquier était celle-ci: Directeur de la Société des
Catacombes de Paris et de la force motrice à domicile."

In Jules Verne's novel : Paris au XXe Siecle

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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> According to somebody's status on Facebook, it's "national book week", 
> so you have to post the 5th sentence of the 52th page of the nearest 
> book to you. (Yeah, right!)

  The nearest books are on a bookshelf. It's difficult to say which one is
"nearest" to me. How do I choose?

  And I assume comic books don't count.

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                                                          - Warp

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On 14/04/2011 10:11 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> According to somebody's status on Facebook, it's "national book week",
> so you have to post the 5th sentence of the 52th page of the nearest
> book to you. (Yeah, right!)

The door, its frame, the skirting-boards, the boarded-up fireplace, the 
cupboard under the window were all painted yellow.

My wife's copy of "The hand that first held mine." by Maggie O'Farrell
My books are all tucked up in my Sony eReader.

Oh! The first book in my calibre library is Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany.

"Relax. Take your shirt off."

Good job it wasn’t page 54. ;-)


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     Stephen

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On 4/16/2011 8:36, Warp wrote:
>    The nearest books are on a bookshelf. It's difficult to say which one is
> "nearest" to me. How do I choose?

I picked the one laying sideways on top. :-)

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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On 16/04/2011 04:36 PM, Warp wrote:

>    The nearest books are on a bookshelf. It's difficult to say which one is
> "nearest" to me. How do I choose?

I cheated. There's a dozen books in a bookshelf in front of me, but I 
picked the most interesting book. Fortunately, page 52 is the page on 
red-black trees...

>    And I assume comic books don't count.

Not unless you're going to quote the picture. ;-)

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On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:11:24 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> According to somebody's status on Facebook, it's "national book week",
> so you have to post the 5th sentence of the 52th page of the nearest
> book to you. (Yeah, right!)

OK, 52nd page, 5th sentence:

"Many motherboards provide what is claimed to be hardware RAID."

From _The Advanced Linux Pocket Guide_.

That's about equidistant from me as my Nook, and isn't the copy of the 
2nd edition of "Human Capital Analytics", which might be difficult to 
identify the 5th sentence in (many of the pages have formulas on them).

Jim

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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> On 16/04/2011 04:36 PM, Warp wrote:

> >    The nearest books are on a bookshelf. It's difficult to say which one is
> > "nearest" to me. How do I choose?

> I cheated. There's a dozen books in a bookshelf in front of me, but I 
> picked the most interesting book. Fortunately, page 52 is the page on 
> red-black trees...

  By using that method, the 5th sentence on page 52 would be:

  "Here, in this chapter, flowers are seducing us, drawing us in, step by
step, lining our path to that understanding."

  Not bad, actually.

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                                                          - Warp

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> Oh! The first book in my calibre library is Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany.
>
> "Relax. Take your shirt off."
>
> Good job it wasn’t page 54. ;-)

...apparently I missed that one...

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On 23/05/2011 4:25 PM, Invisible wrote:
>> Oh! The first book in my calibre library is Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany.
>>
>> "Relax. Take your shirt off."
>>
>> Good job it wasn’t page 54. ;-)
>
> ....apparently I missed that one...

LOL

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Regards
     Stephen

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