The Book Exercise

via [url=http://www.pacificavc.com/blog/2004/04/22.html#a615]Tim Oren[/url]:

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.

My entry:

“You know that Descartes (like Elvis) is dead.”

From “The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, that chapter written by Gerald J. Erion and Barry Smith, the book edited by William Irwin. Sitting beneath that book was a copy of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale”, but the fifth sentence was rather boring, so I stuck with the original book I picked up.