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Well, whattaya freakin' know, ye olde book meme has come back around again. (This is a yearly occurrence, I think.) Spotted elsewhere earlier, but most lately of Faux Real Tho:

1. Find the nearest book.
2. Turn to page 123.
3. Go to the fifth sentence on the page.
4. Copy out the next three sentences and post to your blog.
5. Name the book and the author, and tag three more folks.

Mine is the Qwest DEX white pages for Minneapolis, Minnesota (through April 2007).* But we'll skip that and go to the next-nearest, which just happens to be Lionel Trilling's Sincerity and Authenticity:

...And everything which you are unable to do, your money can do for you; it can eat, drink, go to the ball and the theatre. It can acquire art, learning, historical treasures, political power, and it can travel. It can appropriate all these things for you... but although it can do all this, it only desires to create itself, and to buy itself...’

That's the last portion of a quotation from Marx; hence the unmatched single-quote. Anyway, what I'm actually (re-) reading is the sixth Harry Potter book (British edition found at MPL Central), having finished The Virtu. I'll have a review up shortly for that one and its predecessor. I have yet to actually read Sincerity and Authenticity.

I abstain from tagging. You know whether you need to do this one again.

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* James 15700 White Pine Dr ------------------- MNTNKA etcetera.

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From the mouth of said comicker herself, I see that Fun Home is Time's best book of the year. Fuckin' A! Huzzah!

Anyway, if you haven't read it yet, you ought to. It's stunning. (Did I mention I have a signed copy? Well, actually, Katie has it right now.)

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As you go through life, you may notice that a not-insignificant portion of the musicians and musicologists you meet will be mildly fixated on Pablo Picasso. I'm convinced there is a good reason for this, but I haven't quite made the connection yet. We do have a notable tendency to ramble on about "painting in three dimensions," often with an odd sort of gleam in our eyes, so that might be a good starting point for investigations.

PSA

We're all feeling quite a bit less skittish about the whole deal by now, especially since Dad's at home now and I got to talk to him on the phone today. So I might as well make a public announcement about it.

Facts about Carbon Monoxide Gas:

• Colorless
• Odorless
• Hates you and wants you dead

Do spring for a detector or three; it's worth it. That shit has already been responsible for the death of someone I knew in high school, and it very nearly did in my pops around the end of last week. I'd just as soon keep the damage tally from progressing any further, so y'all be careful.