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

[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.