Only that nothing's exactly as it appears

[sovay]

Right, that international book week meme. The fifth sentence on page 52 of the closest book to me, sans context:

It's the voice of an invalid, of a monster in pain.

(I'm not sure what the lack of context adds to the experience, but it's the topmost book on the window-seat stack closest to my desk. I got it from rushthatspeaks.)

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[tilivenn.livejournal.com]

Two were equidistant, for me:
"Without waiting for a reply, Joe-Jim turned the lights back on, using the duplicate controls mounted in the left arm of his chair."
"Both kinds of symbolism - the Greeks' unknowable matter, to be transcended in knowledge, and Bacon's mysterious, but knowable Nature - have played crucial roles in the constitution of the feminine in relation to our ideals of knowledge."

[sovay]

Two were equidistant, for me

I like that combination.

[tilivenn.livejournal.com]

It's sort of a cheat. I want to use one to write a paper on the other. But this very logically meant that they were both on my desk.

[sovay]

But this very logically meant that they were both on my desk.

All right, I don't see how it breaks the rules of the meme if I ask: what were they?

[tilivenn.livejournal.com]

Orphans of the Sky, by Robert Heinlein, and Reason, Science and the Domination of Matter, by Genevieve Lloyd, one of the articles in Feminism and Science, ed. Evelyn Fox Keller and Helen E. Longino. It's not strictly true that I want to use that particular article to write about Orphans of the Sky, and also, the class I'm reading Orphans of the Sky for has only assigned me a 5-7 page paper, which the Orphans of the Sky paper would be longer than. So emphasis on the "want" in "want to ... write a paper". The actual paper is going to be using Donna Haraway to take The Cold Equations to pieces - it's an easier target, in some ways.