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My red basil seeds are sprouting! Hooray! Let's hope I can hold on to this lot.

That 123 meme, from brisingamen

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 own bulletin...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.

I have agreed for a good travelling-coach and four, at a guinea-a-day, for three months certain; and next week we intend to begin our journey to the North, hoping still to be with you by the latter end of October - I shall continue to write from every stage where we make considerable halt, as often as any thing occurs, which I think can afford you the least amusement.

Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. This is in my desk drawer at the moment, so is the closest book by a narrow margin. There are actually only six sentences on page 123.

The runner-up sentence is

The compiler will scan all the assemblies it knows about, looking for the type's definition. (Jeffrey Richter, Applied Microsoft .Net Framework Programming)

which is a lot less interesting.

Reading update

Read:
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Louis de Bernieres, Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord
Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Tamora Pierce, The Healing in the Vine (50p, library sale)

Reading:
Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People
P. G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
Gilbert and Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination
Ursula Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness