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[fajrdrako]

Got this from thete1 at the point I actually lost self-control and decided to do it, but I could have got it elsewhere - saw it numerous times. Enjoyed the results.

1. Take five books off your bookshelf.
2. Book #1 -- first sentence
3. Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty
4. Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Book #5 -- final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph:

I took them at random from five different bookcases. One is a library book.

I suppose I've always been interested in the relation of mind and body, growing up as I did in a culture that separated them distinctly. I've disturbed you, with this babble. They almost reach for the glasses. In compound numbers, unus is used for primus: uno et octogensimo anno, in the eighty-first year. And though the world should reel to a puny death and the wolves are appointed our godfathers, I will not fail you, ever.

Some of you will recgonize that last sentence for sure.

Not much coherence in that paragraph, I would say.

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[a mote in the] Eye of the Beholder

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was fairly cacophanous to me, when I read it at age fifteen or so. I should look at it again, see what I think now.

Um, my writing can be... idiosyncratic. Can be. Yes, all of it that you have read has been lucid, come to think of it. Let me see what I can find of the other sort, or let me see what I can concoct of the other sort. Sometime when sleep is not an urgent concern! Promise.

Re: [a mote in the] Eye of the Beholder

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I think you misunderstand - I don't feel a particular desire to read your less lucid works. I don't even like non-lucid works, and do my best to avoid them! Except maybe Finnegan's Wake, though I'm not sure it qualifies. I was just surprised because I'd never heard that Tristram Shandy was difficult and any samples of your writing I have seen were notable for their clarity. Hmm. I bet I could find Tristram Shandy online and check it out for myself.