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[dodont]

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, a girlie mag, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

"For all their similarities, the Roman counterpart of Artemis, Diana nemorensis, or "Diana of the Woods," was not the same goddess, at least not in origin. It used to be assumed that the Romans merely adopted Artemis and gave her a Latin name, but Diana was in fact an aboriginal Latin deity whose worship also goes back to prehistoric times. The Latin myth of the Golden Bough, which provided the impulse for Frazer's monumental The Golden Bough, is one of the indications of her indigenous antiquity."

If anyone knows what that's from, I'll buy them a pint.

Comments

[notlosers.livejournal.com]

Forests: The Shadow of Civilization.

Ahahahahahahaa.

(His book about death was really good.)

[andabusers.livejournal.com]

How do you know that? Have you read it, or did you just know that I've read it recently? What's the one about death?

Damn you.

But that's ok, you're exempt because you live far away :P

[guyinahat.livejournal.com]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=For+all+their+similarities%2C+the+Roman+counterpart+of+Artemis&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

I'm not far away!

Oh, and I considered doing this meme, but the nearest book was Banksy and page 23 was just Mona Lisa with a rocket launcher...

[notlosers.livejournal.com]

A couple of years ago grandpa recommended the two books to me; I read a bit of the trees one and most of the death one, innit.

Coffee please.

[ripperlyn.livejournal.com]

"Displays the help window. Opens the database window. Finds text (with the option to replace it) in the open table, query, or form. Deletes the selected object. Analyzes table design, improves database performance, or documents the database objects."

[kangaroo.livejournal.com]

"Anna Wickham and Sylvia Townsend Warner, notably both talented musicians, use the constructed voice with admirable elasticity and effect."

Why I have a book on women's poetry of the 1930s on my desk at work - I bought it yesterday. (Also on my desk: TS Eliot's collected poetry, Stanislaw Lem's A Perfect Vacuum, HP Lovecraft's At The Mountains of Madness, and Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man - oh dear, my library's overflowing.. Not forgetting the loose leaf encyclopedia of Health & Safety at Work: Law and Practice. :P )