Meme

[altariel]

From qatsi. I've done this before, but the sentence concerned was just too good to pass up on.

Instructions:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.

"The lack of career opportunities for sociologists and other social scientists during the 1980s, combined with a massive expansion in business and management teaching, resulted in many students with postgraduate training in sociology and related dsciplines being forced to find work outside sociology departments."

From: Against Management, by Martin Parker.

Comments

[crossbow1.livejournal.com]

Why do people always post this when the nearest book to me is a computer manual?

Oh. Because I'm always on the computer when I'm in Livejournal.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

D'oh!

[hafren.livejournal.com]

It doesn't work with poetry books either. One, you're lucky if there are 123 pages, and two, even luckier if there are as many as 5 complete sentences on any page.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Whereas the book nearest to me never changes for twelve months, so it would get rather boring quoting the same sentence again and again.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure about cookery books either. Plenty of pages, but you might not be lucky with the subject matter. Want to know how Margaret Fulton recommends fish descaling?