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The meme formerly known as the Chutry Experiment by Pandammonium at 15.53 GMT, 13 Nov 2008

I see the meme formerly known as the Chutry Experiment is doing the rounds again. The instructions are more or less the same, but this time, you pick page 56 instead of 123, and the wording is slightly altered. The meme formerly known as The Chutry Experiment thusly states:

Grab the nearest book.
Open [...]

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Second Life by Pandammonium at 17.24 BST, 14 Sep 2006

I’ve just finished a book, Wicker, today, which is set in the near future and has this computer game in it called Shadow World. It’s a virtual version of the world (or supported cities, at least). The other day, I discovered that there was a similar thing in the real world, Second Life, [...]

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Spanish novels by Pandammonium at 12.19 GMT, 12 Mar 2006

I have a couple of books translated into Spanish from English, but what I really want is a book that was written in Spanish in the first place. I looked in a big bookshop in town yesterday, but they all seemed to be most depressing, all about war and misery. It’s all very [...]

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Trying to study… by Pandammonium at 10.17 BST, 17 May 2005

When the cat sits on the book you’re trying to read and plays with the pen you’re trying to take notes with, it makes it a bit tricky to study.

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Reading Spanish by Pandammonium at 23.33 BST, 9 May 2005

My head is hurting; I can read no more Spanish tonight. I don’t know what’s worse, reading Stump or reading Spanish (Gramática de la lengua española by the Real Academia Española). I suppose the Spanish will get easier with practice. But do you know, the worst thing is, the book is one [...]

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The Chutry Experiment by Pandammonium at 16.30 GMT, 26 Feb 2005

Instructions for the Chutry Experiment:

Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

The nearest book to me at this time is, I'm afraid, [...]

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