'07: A Meme Game
I’ve been meaning to do this for a few days, but life has been kind of hectic.
Memes are ideas that spread from mind to mind like a virus. Not sound bytes, not quite, but the ideas conveyed by sound bytes. A quantum thought, perhaps.
Would you like to play a meme game to celebrate 2007? Open the last book you read, go to the 7th chapter, and type in the 7th sentence. I’ll go first.
“But the hypomania and depression intensified, as they usually do without mood-stabilizing treatment, and Christopher developed a tolerance for the alcohol.”
Wasn’t that fun? Next do it for the books you’re reading now!
Messies Manual, The: A Complete Guide to Bringing Order & Beauty to Your Home by Sandra Felton
“One of the problems with accomplishing a task is that ideas flit quickly in and out of focus in the brain.”
and
Brain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change
by Bruce Wexler
This book, unfortunately, has only 5 chapters. So I counted the Introduction as a chapter and the meme is from the Epilogue.
“All but 300 of the 7,000 Pennan people now live in government settlements with comfortable beds and zinc-roofed houses, but with little productive work, little food, and no connection to the activities and surroundings that shaped them as a people and as individuals.”
Food for thought.
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