spooky, huh? huh?

“Conversely, where the afterlife of the dead receives new life, the earth as a whole receives a new blessing.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison, “The Dominion of the Dead”

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.

It was on my bedside table, I swear. A fascinating book on how the legacies of those who went before us shape (and honestly, control) our worldview, our actions, our lives. Author’s contention: “culture” is for the most part an attempt to live up to the expectations of the dead, and to create in the next generation a desire to do the same for us when we’re gone. That’s a huge oversimplification of a lot of it, but it gets the idea across.

In other meme news, I won’t be doing the year in review meme. I can tell already how this year is going to look to me when i look back on it.