What’s on Page 123?
Found on Crooked Tmber. And because I haven’t posted in a while. Let me do this meme. You can too.
Instructions:
1. Grab the nearest book (that is at least 123 pages long).
2. Open to p. 123.
3. Go down to the 5th sentence.
4. Type in the following 3 sentences.
5. Tag five people.
What books do I have on hand? The absolute nearest to me is The Saga of the Icelanders by some really old Icelanders, I guess. Page 123 is in the middle of Egil’s Saga.
“Then he spoke a verse:
I could not stand the ugly
land-claimer’s wrath;
no cuckoo will alight knowing
that the squawking eagle prowls.
There, as before, I benefited
from the bear of the hearth-seat.
No one need give up who boasts
such a loyal helper on his travels.”
That’s more than 3 sentences, but it I can’t really tell what 3 sentences are when most of it is in verse. Yikes! Those darn sagas.
Your turn whomever you are.
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this is interesting but i dont want to do mine yet. well coz the book i grabbed was the book im reading, and i dont want to jump there yet or else i’ll break the streak that the book is trying to do. LOL!
@marge: Read faster, so that I can enjoy that book. Or at least pretend to.
sorry. we are playing. i cant go back to the book. haha! =)
yey! heres my share!
From MUDSLINGERS: THE 25 DIRTIEST POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS OF ALL TIME by K. Swint
“And he faced an opponent in Democratic nominee Ann Richards who had a controversial public image and a history of personal problems.
Newsweek described the contest as between “a millionaire political novice who sits on a white horse, tips his Stetson hat when he greets a woman and has settled at least a couple of disagreements with fisticuffs… and a feminist and recovering alcoholic who put her white bouffant on the national map by telling the country (at the 1988 Democratic NAtional Convention) that President George Bush was ‘born with a silver foot in his mouth.'” A cowboy versus a feminist?”
=)
That’s a disturbing book to be reading. And you had to wait several days before being able to post that? Is it that engrossing? Or is it too boring?
Sheesh. I waited days for that?! 😉
because!!! i was playing Rock Band!!! and the book is interesting. i just had to squeeze it in between several other stuff i had to do.