Chris Heard tagged me in what has got to be one of the most bizarre memes I have seen yet. The instructions are as follows:

  • Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more (no cheating!)
  • Find page 123
  • Find the first five sentences
  • Post the next three sentences
  • Tag five people

Chris lists three books. Which one is closest depends on the point on his body you choose as his starting point. The first two books are a Dungeon’s & Dragons book (monster manual?) and the BHS (Exodus 22:23-25), but I have no idea what the first one is.

The book that happens to be sitting next to me in my office is Dostoevsky’s Religion by Steven Cassedy. The passage the meme seeks is the following:

The model can mean at least two slightly different things, depending on our perspective. It can describe me, an individual, and my experience in this world from my perspective. This experience then consists in the path of development that, by a law of nature, I follow.

The excerpt is taken from chapter five, “Belief is Ideal.” I have no idea what the context is, as I have only just started the book. Just take solace in the fact that this book beat out the Hermeneia commentary on Deutero–Isaiah by three inches. Believe me, it could have been worse.

For the final portion of the meme, I need to tag five people. The honorees are: Christian Brady, Stephen Cook, Charles Halton, Tyler Williams, and Jim Getz.

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