Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Keeping the meme going

I've been tagged by Wickle over at True Believer.

1) I'm supposed to grab the nearest book and turn to page 123.
2) Find the first five sentences.
3) Post the next three sentences.
4) Tag 5 more people.

True to my moniker the closest book was a textbook for a graduate international trade class. The book is International Trade, by Thomas Pugel. However the text out of that would have been this:

"New technology is difficult to keep secret, and other countries have an incentive to obtain the technological improvements. Indeed, the creator of the new technology has the incentive to apply it in production in the national locations in which the new technology is most suitable (and therefore most profitable). H-O theory suggests that the suitable location matches the factor proportions of production using the new technology to the factor endowments of the national location."

Wake up, sorry to inflict that on you. I reinterpreted the meme so that I'd actually use a real book not a sleeping aid made out of paper.

Instead I picked the nearest non-textbook which was True Spirituality, by Francis Schaeffer.

Here's the excerpt from page 123:

"I can think of my parts in various ways: as body and spirit, or as my physical part and my spiritual part. I can quite correctly think of a division of myself of intellect, will, and emotions and it is right that I should do so, because these thing are open to observation. But we miss the biblical concept if we miss its emphasis that man is not just the parts, but he is a unit"

I'll tag:
William G. Meisheid at Beyond the Rim.
Phillip W. Dennis at Agkyra.
Martin LaBar at Sun and Shield Blog.
Collin Brendemuehl at Evangelical Perspective.
Mark Olson at Pseudo-Polymath

2 comments:

Wickle said...

Wow ... 4 of the 5 I tagged did it.

And from that I've got an Excel user manual, the APA publication manual, and an international trade text.

Thanks for humoring me.

Starving Econ Grad said...

What a lively bunch, huh?