Today, a meme.

It works thus: Turn to page 161 of whatever book you are currently reading. What is the 6th sentence on the page?

Oo! I wanna play! Except… I tend to read several books simultaneously. (Because I can’t remain focused on any one for an extended period unless it’s really short, or exceptionally compelling.) So. Here are quotes from a number of books I’m working my way through. (And have been for some time, because I so frequently and easily get distracted, even though I find them all fascinating.)

Page 161, sentence 6.

“If, on the otherhand, they are just different regions of a single universe, the laws of science would have to be the same in each region, because otherwise one could not move continuously from one region to another.”

-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“Later on he would remember that night, and other things from the next days and nights.”

Ursula K. Leguin, “Old Music and the Slave Women”, in The Birthday of the World and Other Stories

“We’ll simply write and tell him how the real proof should run.”

Albert Einstein - from “Einstein, His Life and Universe” by Walter Isaacson

“You actually want to be sick, want to die, and you begin to give up.”

The Sanity We Are Born With, A Buddhist Approach to Psychology by Chogyam Trungpa

“Know how to make use of stupidity: The wisest man plays this card at times.”

The 48 Laws of Power -Robert Greene

“Therefore to prove that the Flying Spaghetti Monster exists, we must prove that: FSM <> 0″

James Hofer, Mathematical Proof of the FSM, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson

—-And I read this one a long while ago, but wanted to see what it would say:

“Pubescent sweetheart!”

Lolita -Vladimir Nabokov
(Funny, no? It rather sums up the theme of the book, if you have even a general idea of what it’s about.)