Comments | sollersuk: That p45 meme again

sollersuk

That p45 meme again

Jan 14, 2012 08:19

Pick up the nearest book to you. Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012."The Southwick palace, although on a smaller scale, mirrored the architectural form of Fishbourne as, apparently, did the building complex of Pullborough ( Read more... )

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atheneglaukopis January 15 2012, 00:22:33 UTC

Ha, mine was the from Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World. "In Arabia, the Prophet Muhammad treated the pagans, Jews, and Christians he encountered differently."

Which, by the way, you recommended to me and is next on my reading list. I just read another of your recommendations, The Transformation of the Roman World. A few pages in I knew exactly what you meant when you said it opened your eyes to just how Romanized the Germanic kings were. Very intriguing book.

sollersuk January 15 2012, 07:55:26 UTC

Do you have a Dreamwidth account? If so I can give you access to information on what I've done with all that research.

atheneglaukopis January 15 2012, 16:42:11 UTC

Yes, Dreamwidth account is mildred_of_midgard. I know it has to be confusing for me to have such unrelated names on LJ and DW, but I'm not active on LJ anymore except to comment on posts that don't appear in my DW account. (Where did the preview function go on LJ comments, btw? I need to check my html ( ... )

sollersuk January 15 2012, 19:40:24 UTC

Ah, that's fine - I simply hadn't made the connection. So of course you have access to what I'm doing with it all - I'm just "sollers" there!

I'll come back to you later on the Ancient Near East as my knowledge is patchy but in some respects fairly deep.

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orange_fell January 15 2012, 09:08:23 UTC

Surely you can pull some kind of innuendo out of that . . . no?

I did your meme too, also experienced the perils of choosing nonfiction, but it could have been so much worse than it was!

taelle January 15 2012, 19:30:46 UTC

The book closest to me is permanently the handbook for Russian grammar, spelling and editing. Which probably says a lot about my sex life even without opening it...

sollersuk January 15 2012, 19:40:54 UTC

*chortles*

randomstasis January 16 2012, 05:48:03 UTC

Lol- I hear you. Mine was Stubborn Fool (a memoir of the early Indian schools) and the sentence was "Takes a lot."
Which...I'm not sure I even want to interpret.
Your book sounds fascinating, though- I haven't read any romano-british history for ages, seems like.
Maybe, for interpretation, you could just select the relevant phonemes- wick, fish, pull?
:DDD

sollersuk January 16 2012, 08:04:43 UTC

It's about how un-Romanised most of the Brits were. There's a spreading awareness that the West was nothing like as Romanised as used to be thought; I would never have guessed that in Central Gaul, a few days' journey from the area that first got the citizenship under Claudius, there were still tribes living in Iron Age style villages and not talking Latin... in the mid 5th century.