Yet Another Book Meme
I know I just posted a book meme, but I got tagged for a second one by Radioactive Jam, so I am honour-bound to post this one. :)
This is how it works: You grab the book closest to you. Open to page 123. Scroll down to the 5th sentence. Post the next 3 sentences on your blog, as well as the book and the author. Tag 3 people.
And even if it disappeared as “disco” from the popular mainstream, disco music would continue to spawn new generations of dance music down to the present. The spirit of the boogie lived on, even if in the eighties no one would be caught dead using the word “boogie” and meaning it in any way but ironically. After tbe passing of disco as a fad and remarkable pop-culture phenomenon, what was left was the best part of all: really terrific dance music.
Thank you “A Brief History of Disco” by John-Manuel Andriote. (Question: If your book on disco is 195 pages long, can you really refer to it as “brief”?)
Here are my three people I’m tagging: the Reverend Anaglyph, Dorian Gray, and JediMacfan. I don’t know if they actually all read this thing, but anyhoo….
Radioactive Jam said,
September 13, 2006 @ 11:02 am
Q: How do you make a “Kleenex” dance?
A: You put a little ‘boogie’ in it.
And as a point of comparison, Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History Of Time” weighs in with 176 pages. Since ‘brief’ is subjective at best I suppose the “Disco” author is entitled to its use. Though I wonder if Andriote had Hawking’s clever title in mind when he chose his own?
jedimacfan said,
September 15, 2006 @ 2:53 am
an eccentric lost in paradise.
There, in a glade, a wild angel slumbers, a semi-pavonian creature. Poke at it curiously with your green umbrella.
Nabokov’s Butterflies
Vladimnir Nabokov
Does this at least count as a half-meme? And yes, I do read your blog on occasion.