thirteen ways

Apparently I choose my friends according to very specific criteria.

In response to my tagging entreaty from the other day, both Ms ACB and Mr Tonic Blotter found exactly the same book within reach of their blogging posts, In Defense of Food - an Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan. Interestingly, the sentences that each quoted differed slightly, somewhat in accordance with their respective occupations…

Mr Tonic Blotter:

[B]eing the precise lawyer that I am, I am going to follow rules 3 and 4 literally. Rule 4 states only that one should “find the fifth sentence”. It does not state that one should then post that fifth sentence. Instead, only rule 4 expressly asks us to “post” the “next” (presumably following) three sentences. So here we go, sentences 6, 7 and 8 from p.123 of the aforementioned Pollan

Ms ACB, being the imprecise, diva-like artistic type, posted sentences 5-7. (This, as a diva-like flute player, is exactly what I did as well!)

Mr DecSimp, proudly breaking all the rules, posted a turgid, 14-line extra sentence that outlined the ways in which all of Bruckner’s symphonies sound the same. (This will make my Bruckner-phobic ensemble mates very happy.)