The book meme, from all over

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

I had to use my thesis!

"Mary is not, unlike God, an object of adoration for FL, but she is given agency and power here beyond a merely intercessory role."

I dislike the word 'agency', but there you go.

Redone after lunch: "But he spoke to them, and learnt that they were servants of his brother, who had ordered him to be met, for, apparently, there had been some word of him coming from Bayonne in France, where the pilgrim had been recognized."

St Ignatius of Loyola, Personal Writings, trans. Munitz and Endean, Penguine Classics, 1996.

Now I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walks like a woman and talks like a man

Via Aqueduct Amble: someone has written a programme which claims to be able to predict a blogger's gender by analysis: http://genderanalyzer.com/

It thinks tree_and_leaf is a man, which for the record, I would dispute. Am reminded of all those hideous old tropes praising women for 'the almost masculine force' of their intellect...

I wonder if it would be different if I unlocked a few of my broodier posts? I'm not going to, though, even in the interests of pseudo-science.

Twitter-witter!

( Beware the ramblings! )