Meme.

[chess]

Then, it was as though everything was stripped away; sensation, memory, self, even the notion of existance that underlies reality - all seemed to have vanished utterly, their passing marked only by the realisation that they had disappeared, before that too ceased to have any meaning, and for an indefinite, infinite instant, there was only the awareness of something; something that possessed no mind, no purpose and no thought, only the knowledge that it was. The lives of modern men and women are also overshadowed by fear. But look, look! This is a form of national idolatry that can gradually destroy the humanity of a nation, leading that nation to threaten or to kill the innocent or, at the very least, to collude with those who are doing the threatening or the killing in the name of upholding peace, defending freedom, and preserving democracy. In any event, the full construction proves that a Turing machine can carry out any computation a RAM can - another piece of evidence in favour of Church's thesis.

Iain M Banks - Feersum Endjin
John Stott - The Contempory Christian
R. A. Lafferty - Lafferty In Orbit
Gerard W. Hughes - God In All Things
A. K. Dewdney - The New Turing Omnibus

((1. Take five books off your bookshelf.
2. Book #1 -- first sentence
3. Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty
4. Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Book #5 -- final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph))

Comments

[requiem-17-23.livejournal.com]

Hey, cool meme! *yoink*

[tienelle.livejournal.com]

::slaps Requiem with a wet haddock::

[requiem-17-23.livejournal.com]

haddock|Requiem> = slapped|Requiem>. This evolves with time into work. Honest.