Another Meme from Mimi that has turned out to be quite unusual in that an odd group of singular sentences from myriad places does make a story of sorts.
Queen Mimi of Bloggingham has once more issued a royal edict under threat of the dank and moldy dungeon as follows:
This is a royal twist on an old meme. I just wish I’d found these gems when I was actually twenty-one. This is how it works: You must follow the directions to the letter.
1. Find the nearest bookshelf of your favorite reads, cookbooks, tech books, magazines. It doesn’t matter. This will work for all print media. If you don’t have seven books lined up on a shelf, grab the first seven you see around the house.
2. Book #1: Turn to page 21. Read the 21st sentence (you may have to turn the page).
Write it down.
3. Do the same with the first seven books or articles you see. The sentences will make a paragraph. You must write them down in the order you found them.
4. When you are finished, read over your “story” and title it.
5. Show us your bibliography at the end of this meme. Hmmm…I wonder if we’ll be surprised at the reading material we may find. I just did mine. It was rather shocking! I didn’t cheat. I promise! Don’t you either….or it’s you-know-where for you.
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The Unintentional Philosophy
This was true, Selina was seldom in to dinner and so she had never heard them. All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist. Too love makes one solitary, she thought. It is just that, as it now suddenly occurs to me, this is the first time in my life that I have been really alone at night. How true, but the apprehensive, small boy who waited in the headmaster’s flower-filled garden on that warm summer evening, saw nothing of the architectural beauties around him. I think of Princeton as being lazy and good-looking and aristocratic – you know like a spring day. For the mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go, and making quite a commotion in the pool as it went.
1, The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark
2. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut, jr.
3. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
4. The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch
5. The Moon’s A Balloon, David Niven
6. This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. Alice In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
