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Post by jayhenry on Sept 23, 2006 10:17:46 GMT -5
Horoscopes? So 1990s. Fortune cookies? Fuggedaboudit. If you want to know what the future holds in store for you, Bibliomancy is where it's at. It's the hottest new forum game. All the cool kids are doing it.
So, take a book you like, and bibliomance! Maybe the clues will even help us save Bree from almost certain death at the hands of the occult.
Here's what you do.
1) Explain which book you chose and why. 2) Bibliomance a passage (it's fun!) 3) Share your interpretation.
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Post by jayhenry on Sept 23, 2006 10:29:54 GMT -5
I'll start
1) I picked William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" since the main characters in that book hang out in Web forums discussing a series of mysterious Web videos. Just like we do!
2) Here was my passage, on page 215, "Starbucks, she thinks, seated in one near Blue Ant, beneath exactly the same faux-Murano pendulum lamps they have in the branch nearest her apartment in New York, is a strange place in which to feel this upset."
3) This is amazing. I go to Starbucks almost every day (the one by my office or the one by my home) and this past week I've found myself increasingly annoyed at the other customers. The book knew this, and is telling me to chill out, get some patience, and be nicer to strangers. Maybe if I chill out in Starbucks, Bree and I will, uh, get married.
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Post by hyemew on Sept 23, 2006 11:12:59 GMT -5
That's a fun idea! I didn't know what book to pick so I just picked a random one on the end of the shelf. It's <i>The Napoleon of Notting Hill</i> by Chesterton. I flipped the pages and randomly pointed to one and... it was blank. It was a completely blank page in the middle of the book on the left side with the title "Book IV" on the other side. I cracked up at my utter failure at bibliomancy! I hope there's no actual meaning behind this haha.
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Post by milowent on Sept 27, 2006 9:13:24 GMT -5
1. The Chicago Manual of Style (14th Edition). Because it is the bible of picky grammar and editing rules.
2. p.394: "Corrections on artwork, unless they are so gross and simple that an unskilled or shaky hand it not likely to spoil the drawing, should be left to an artist."
3. Aha! This is a caution to those who wish to get their LG15 fan fiction somehow incorporated into the LG15 cannon. I think it means do not vary any facts from the official LG15 cannon.
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flwright
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Post by flwright on Sept 27, 2006 10:37:32 GMT -5
Hey J, Great idea, so much fun I’ve tried it twice. 1a. The Autobiography of an IdeaBy Louis Sullivan, my mentor2a. p135-"Grandpa was an incorrigible tease... 'Louis, what good does the study of your stupid geography do you... Have your teachers told you of anything of value about a river?... Have they ever told you there are rivers and rivers each with special character?...They can not...they can no longer see into the heart of a child.' " 3a. What may seem like an endorsement for home schooling is really a lesson for anyone who tries to teach. So, in an effort to see into the hearts of children... 1b. The Pooh Book of QuotationsBy A. A. Milne 2b. (p.42 From the House at Pooh Corner)- “'Why, what’s going to happen on Thursday?' asked Rabbit, and when Pooh had explained, and Rabbit, whose life was made up of Important Things, said, 'Oh, I thought you’d really come about something...'" 3b. Wow, it is almost Thursday, and my life is made up of Important Things, and now I know why I come here. FLWright PS Is anyone else having problems getting their book to actually open instead of just falling to the side? Bree’s Dad must be really talented.
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BaileysMom
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Post by BaileysMom on Oct 8, 2006 21:55:37 GMT -5
Book: wikipedia - because I didn't feel like getting up, just chose the "random article link" which seems like the internet's version of letting the book fall open, right?
Passage: Vasospasm refers to a condition in which blood vessels spasm, leading to vasoconstriction. This can lead to tissue death(necrosis). Cerebral vasospasms may arise in the context of subarachnoid hemorrhage. Vasospasm is a major contributor to post-operative stroke and death after brain injury, aneurysm repair and any other source bleeding within the brain. Vasospasm may not appear until 4 to 8 days after injury.
Interpretation: I think Bree might want to start a low dose of Coumadin.
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