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Grab that book meme.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
Here's mine. I'm actually including the 4th and 5th sentences, just to complete the thought.
"People love being 'persuaded to ancient virtue' by a charming writer, particularly when they are told in the same breath that modern civilization has made such virtue impossible of attainment. But mere truthtellers -- 'undertakers who lay out the corpse of history' (to quote poor Catullus's epigram on the noble Pollio) -- people who record no more than actually occured -- such men can only hold an audience while they have a good cook and a cellar of Cyprian wine."
-Sulpicius in I, Claudius, by Robert Graves
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
Here's mine. I'm actually including the 4th and 5th sentences, just to complete the thought.
"People love being 'persuaded to ancient virtue' by a charming writer, particularly when they are told in the same breath that modern civilization has made such virtue impossible of attainment. But mere truthtellers -- 'undertakers who lay out the corpse of history' (to quote poor Catullus's epigram on the noble Pollio) -- people who record no more than actually occured -- such men can only hold an audience while they have a good cook and a cellar of Cyprian wine."
-Sulpicius in I, Claudius, by Robert Graves
