Send This To Ten Friends Or A Curse May Be Involved
April 19, 2004 I came across this meme whilst trying to nose my way around the GNO underground.1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
According to the Logopolis post, "Because the preceding exercise is a meme, you must perpetuate it on your own blog. If you don't have a blog, you must start one in order to propagate the meme." This makes it sound as if I am complying with some sort of warped chain letter. I am not sure I am comfortable with this, but, as was also stated in that particular post, "Resistance is futile". I can only be thankful that I already have a blog in place. After spending the time I have on it, I would hate to have to start from scratch for this:
"When I looked up through the web of trees, the night fell over me, and for a moment I lost my boundaries, feeling like the sky was my own skin and the moon was my heart beating up there in the dark."
This is from The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd. It was my attempt at reading something mindless, but enjoyable this past winter. I felt a strong need for such reading material during those endless gray days. I ended up absolutely loving the book, though, and was crushed when I finished it in two days. It is about the summer a girl named Lily turns fourteen on her father's peach farm in South Carolina during 1964. It does not involve elves, dead sailors or Auschwitz. Lily does accidentally kill her mother when she is four, but there is no curse involved.
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Comments:
Mm. I just found your blog last night, and I was browsing the "books" category and saw the title of this post. It look like an amusing tongue-in-cheek reference, so I decided to check it out, only to be surprised by that beautiful line from The Secret Life of Bees. It is not only enough to cause me to want to find a copy of this book, but it also touched my heart in the way it describes such a close connection between the protagonist and the sky.
Okay, I'm done with my quasi-melancholy ramble now.
Posted by: CountryGoalie at May 1, 2006 11:12 AM
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