I saw this on The Slush God Speaketh and thought I’d play along.
Page 123 Meme
The rules:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
Okay, here’s mine:
“Þegar SigrÃÂÄ‘ur kemur heim kl.7 eftir langan vinnudag er Jón búinn aÄ‘ elda matinn og hún fer beint aÄ‘ kvöldmatarborÄ‘i.”
I think it says, “When SigrÃÂÄ‘ur comes home at 7:00 after a long work day, her husband Jon…” and then I have no idea. But honestly, I’m thrilled that I can read any Icelandic at all.
Mine says “The sturcture operators -> and ., together with () for argument lists and [] for subscripts, are at the top of the precedence hierarchy and thus bind very tightly.”
I don’t have a journal so I’m posting here.
Gee. I actually understood more of the Icelandic than I do of that.
Mine says: “That’s the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard,” she said sharply, putting sugar in her cup and stirring it.
From The Historian – which was surprisingly good. And what a great opening sentence for a short story! My hidden creative writer is tapping her foot …
And it is also a perfect commentary on the two fragments that Dad and I posted.