Look, it's spreading all over the site!
Right, so:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
::looks at her closest pile:: Too short, too short, I'll spare you the dictionary-- ah, here we go, Alberto Manguel. ... aaaand p. 123 is the end of a chapter, with insufficient lines for the meme. Right. Next....
Peter Earle. Wow, this guy writes LONG sentences. More than halfway down the page, the sixth sentence begins (pray note that this is 18th century spelling, NOT my typos):
"The campaign has been 'soe much unfortunate', he wrote, 'as not to have accomplist any part of the designe sent for, which indeed must be imputed in a great measure to the mispending our time and loytering away in port'. His judgement was confirmed a couple of months later in a letter from Bombay, though this writer believed that, despite the navy's negligence and preference for private trade over duty, the very presence of royal ships in the Indian Ocean had had the desired effect. 'The men of warr sent out to suppress them have not taken one right step to effect what they were designed for, though it's our opinion that the very noise of their being come out hath kept this coast clear ever since last rains.'"
-Earle, Peter. The Pirate Wars. (New York: Thomas Dunne Books), 2003, p. 123.
Posted by gris at August 9, 2006 12:29 AM