- Grab the nearest book.
- Open it 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.
“It is still in dispute whether wars between neighbors occur mainly because they fight over territory, because they generate disagreements in their day-to-day interaction, or because they are more easily available for fights—but Vasquez (1995) presents a strong case for the territorial explanation.”
I’m selling textbooks online, you see…
“This becomes a self-JOIN on on the set of immediate subordinates of the parent under consideration.”
From ‘Joe Celko’s Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties’
“Remember Mrs. Gutierrez?”
-The Mediator: Twilight by Meg Cabot
Wow, that wasn’t really all that exciting.
‘His heart was overflowing.’
Not bad…
– Sentimental Education by Flaubert, translated by Robert Baldick and Geoffrey Wall.