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Bookish Meme
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tinocka
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).
6. Tagfive people pretty much everyone.
Okay ... let's stick out an arm, grab the closest book and see what we get.
“As he leaned against the window and watched the terrain unfold into the heart of Africa, Breman became terrified of coming to earth. It was safe in the air, high above the immeasurable forest, but down there . . . It began to dawn on him that he was going to Bumba to die. He had recently been assigned to Michigan as a state epidemiologist, and suddenly he had been called to Africa. He had left his wife back home in Michigan with their two children, and he began to suspect that he would never see them again. He had brought an overnight bag with a toothbrush, and he had managed to pack a few paper surgical masks and some gowns and rubber gloves into the bag. He did not have the proper equipment for handling a hot agent. The Buffalo descended, and the town of Bumba appeared, a rotting tropical port spread out along the Congo River.”
~”The Hot Zone” by Richard Preston, copyright 1994, 'Part One: The Shadow of Mount Elgon', “Ebola Rive - 1976 Summer-Autumn”, page 123]
“The Hot Zone” is a true history of the beginning of the research that went into 'discovering' and trying to understand the hemorrhagic virii: it chronicles a series of real situations that cumulatives in the first documented outbreak of the Ebola virus in the US. Yes, it's an 'old book', but that does not negate it's information.
Sometimes it good to have an old first edition of something.
tinocka1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).
6. Tag
Okay ... let's stick out an arm, grab the closest book and see what we get.
“As he leaned against the window and watched the terrain unfold into the heart of Africa, Breman became terrified of coming to earth. It was safe in the air, high above the immeasurable forest, but down there . . . It began to dawn on him that he was going to Bumba to die. He had recently been assigned to Michigan as a state epidemiologist, and suddenly he had been called to Africa. He had left his wife back home in Michigan with their two children, and he began to suspect that he would never see them again. He had brought an overnight bag with a toothbrush, and he had managed to pack a few paper surgical masks and some gowns and rubber gloves into the bag. He did not have the proper equipment for handling a hot agent. The Buffalo descended, and the town of Bumba appeared, a rotting tropical port spread out along the Congo River.”
~”The Hot Zone” by Richard Preston, copyright 1994, 'Part One: The Shadow of Mount Elgon', “Ebola Rive - 1976 Summer-Autumn”, page 123]
“The Hot Zone” is a true history of the beginning of the research that went into 'discovering' and trying to understand the hemorrhagic virii: it chronicles a series of real situations that cumulatives in the first documented outbreak of the Ebola virus in the US. Yes, it's an 'old book', but that does not negate it's information.
Sometimes it good to have an old first edition of something.
