The book meme

[sawyl]

For no good reason, I'm going to do the book meme:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

My result?

"If he says abortion is always wrong, however, a judgment has been expressed, and it is highly relevent to press Lee for his reasons for thinking what he does"

For the record, this is from Regan's The Case for Animal Rights. He's in the process of pointing out the differences between a disagreement over preferences and a disagreement over a moral matter, in an attempt to demonstrate the fact that morality is a zero sum game. Thus, he says, it is right to submit moral questions to the sorts of scrutiny that are unnecessary for simple preference choices.

Comments

[the-tiddler.livejournal.com]

"Like any other postfix looping construct, a do...while loop is intrinsically hard to read, because it places the controlling condition at the end of the loop, rather than at the beginning.

From O'Reilly Perl Best Practices (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlbp/)

[sawyl.livejournal.com]

Oooh, tres geeky. Of course, those of us who have already obtained the status of intellectual colossi — oh, alright, those of us who are too lazy or stupid or both to learn anything new — don't keep books on our desks. Well, not at work anway. Not unless they have really big pictures...

[doctor-squale.livejournal.com]

"Machines (if properly constructed and properly written for) are
capable of niceties of emotional expression impossible to a human performer"

David Toop in "Undercurrents - the hidden wiring of modern music"

[sawyl.livejournal.com]

Is Undercurrents any good? I've vaguely thought about reading it on a few occasions, but so far I haven't been able to find the time...

[doctor-squale.livejournal.com]

Erik Davies bit is quite good
("The esoterick origins of the phonograph").

Others irritate me ( Ian Penman and is uber-elitist kind of writing ).

To choose, I would rather recommend David Toop books.
"Ocean of Sounds" changed the way I listen to music.