I’m It
I have been tagged by Epiphany to do the Book Meme. What is a Meme anyway? Someone’s French grandmother?
Total Books I’ve Owned: How on earth could I ever count? Right now, about 800 in the house, of which possibly 150 are mine,
and over the past year, I’ve probably sold or taken to Half Price about 50. Over my lifetime? I don’t
know, somewhere close to 3000? I didn’t think I read that much until I started writing them all down.
Since last summer: 112 that I remembered to write down. I probably forgot to write down five or so.
Last Book I Bought: Why did you have to tag me right now? The title: French Women Don’t Get Fat . It’s fairly popular right now.
In fact, I got the only one in the store and a woman tried to steal it from me. It’s really good. I’ve loaned it
out right now, but anyone who wants to borrow it when it comes back is more than welcome since it’s
expensive and hard to find at Half Price.
Last Book I Read: Entering Normal. Very good! I won’t ruin the story by telling you anything about it, but it was a great read.
Five Books That Mean A Lot To Me: The Little Princes by Frances Hodgson Burnet
The Heidi series and other books by Johanna Spyri
Caddie Woodlawn
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
The Camino by Shirley MacLaine. Don’t laugh - this one is mostly a legitimate story about a
spiritual trek that Spanish Catholics take to the shrine of Santiago. It’s a cool book and I
am mostly drawn to her will, determination and love of nature. It takes her almost six
months to walk the distance.
Are there five people I can tag? : Haggis, Sean, Psyguy - oops, ran out of people!
Well, darn it if you can’t format this thing!
Pththppppt!
Comment by Lemon — Tuesday, May 17, 2005 @ 12:05 am
Hey…can I borrow the kingsolver and maclaine books…those sound good.
As for the book French Women Don’t get Fat…well every time I go into Barnes and Noble, I skim through it, it looks reeeeeally good.
Comment by epiphany — Tuesday, May 17, 2005 @ 8:14 am
A Meme can be:
A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.
Alternately:
Richard Dawkins’s term for an idea considered as a replicator, especially with the connotation that memes parasitise people into propagating
them much as viruses do.
Memes can be considered the unit of cultural evolution. Ideas can evolve in a way analogous to biological evolution. Some ideas survive better than others; ideas can mutate through, for example, misunderstandings; and two ideas can recombine to produce a new idea involving elements of each parent idea.
The term is used especially in the phrase “meme complex” denoting a group of mutually supporting memes that form an organised belief system, such as a religion. However, “meme” is often misused to mean “meme complex”.
Use of the term connotes acceptance of the idea that in humans(and presumably other tool- and language-using sophonts)cultural evolution by selection of adaptive ideas has become more important than biological evolution by selection of hereditary traits. Hackers find this idea congenial for tolerably obvious reasons.
You have to admit, these lists are swarming around infecting people, who are then forced to make copies of them, and they make people who fill them out all moany and groany… hmm, sounds like a virus to me!
Or, it could just be your Alsatian grandmother.
Comment by Sean MC — Tuesday, May 17, 2005 @ 3:46 pm
Couldn’t have said it better…glad to know someone knew what I meant by meme…hehehehe
Comment by epiphany — Tuesday, May 17, 2005 @ 4:30 pm
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