Saturday, April 17, 2004

(10:46 AM) | Adam Kotsko:

The Page 23 Thing

Via à Gauche, Unfogged, The Virtual Stoa, Cap'n Pete, et al., the newest, hottest meme, aside from "Kerry is inevitable":

  1. Grab the nearest book.
  2. Open the book to page 23.
  3. Find the fifth sentence.
  4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
For me, that would be as follows:

Volume II/1 and II/2 deal with the so-called doctrine of God in the narrower sense, i.e., in II/1 the quesetion of the possibility of the knowledge of God and the doctrine of the attributes of God (love, freedom, omnipotence, wisdom, presence etc.), and in II/2 the doctrine of the election of grace (predestination) and basic definitions in relation to the commanding of God and therefore the foundation of Christian ethics.

-- Helmut Gollwitzer's introduction to his selections from Barth's Church Dogmatics
You're lucky I happened to put Barth a little closer to the computer than Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida last night before I went to bed.

The Virtual Stoa also points out an interesting meta-meme based on this premise.

[Technical question: is there a way to keep Blogger from putting such a huge gap after blockquotes and lists?]

[UPDATE: Problem solved. That does make for some ugly source code, though.]

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