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It seems I was too lenient with the last malefactor perpetrating misdememeors in the neighborhood, only arranging for a bit of time at the military's little vacation spa in Cuba. This latest transgressor may need the Qaddafi à la Gipper treatment.

In any event, the Five Fifty-Six Meme is supposed to go like this: take the first 10 books you see, open it to page fifty-six, transcribe the fifth sentence, and challenged your readers to guess the books.

But as Wilkins (also a victim) observes "it is in the nature of memes to mutate, right?"

So I am going to play the game a little differently. My picks will not be exactly random. I will be choosing books from my shelves that people who read this blog might actually have read and that have a designated sentence that gives a hint, at least, of which book it is. Additional hints will be also given. I'm only starting off with two -- partly because I'm lazy and partly to see if anyone is interested:

1. In the first place, not even the most fervent local-Flood advocates would deny that there are many places in the Bible where the words "all" and "every" must be understood in the literal sense.

2. The female mosquito cannot afford to be quite so impetuous, yet the episodes of her life follow a rigid marching order prescribed by her genes.

The first (which I suspect is too easy) is from a book generally credited with starting a movement and the second is from a Pulitzer Prize winner.

To paraphrase Groucho, I wouldn't want to swap memes with anyone who hangs around my blog, so I won't be trying to pass this along. But feel free to play.
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