Incoming Signals: A Weblog Back on the plains, there is space.[1] None of the crucial developments preceding political centralization in those same parts of the world were associated with river valleys or complex irrigation systems.[2] The left fielder had a good arm, and he got the ball right in to the second baseman, but when the dust settled Jennifer T. was safe with another double.[3] What is to be done can only be performed by some sense of elitism, and that is now unacceptable, for reasons both good and bad.[4] “Every man still has some boy in him,” Frank said, “and as a boy, I wanted to be a policeman.”[5] fn1.Sometimes a great notion fn2. Guns, Germs and Steel fn3. Summerland fn4. How to read and why fn5.
Another old draft I just found: one variant of this meme used the five books closest to hand, so I went for that.
Incoming Signals: A Weblog
Back on the plains, there is space[1]. None of the crucial developments preceding political centralization in those same parts of the world were associated with river valleys or complex irrigation systems[2]. The left fielder had a good arm, and he got the ball right in to the second baseman, but when the dust settled Jennifer T. was safe with another double[3]. What is to be done can only be performed by some sense of elitism, and that is now unacceptable, for reasons both good and bad[4]. “Every man still has some boy in him,” Frank said, “and as a boy, I wanted to be a policeman[5].”
fn1. Sometimes a great notion
fn2. Guns, Germs and Steel
fn3. Summerland
fn4. How to read and why
fn5. Americana