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[sam_t]

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.

Comments

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

Damn, now I can't do the same because it would be, well, the same. We should stop quoting page 123 of HC and get back to discussing it! Don't know about you, but I didn't find it all that riveting, I suspect that's why discussion is rather quiet. Hopefully it'll pick up when we move on to Liaisons.

Ooh, you're reading LH of D, what do you think of it? Now that one I'll happily discuss till the cows come home. For instance, I think it's one of the few convincing love stories that I've ever read.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

I'm not very far into it at the moment, as I only started reading it this morning! Looking forward to discussing it when I've finished, though.

You could always quote from the second-nearest book, or from something else you're reading at the moment. I don't think that's cheating unless you're deliberately looking for something impressive. You've probably got a different page 123 to me anyway, as I'm using the edition that came out of the Ark.

I enjoyed reading Humphry Clinker but it seems to be hard to discuss without knowing more background than I do. I'm also having trouble finishing thoughts at the moment, as I seem to be going round in circles with work and trying to organise things just now. I'll have a think over the weekend and see if I can come up with anything coherent but it seems to be pretty much me, thee, and occasionally movingfinger at the moment. Where did everyone else go?

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

anonymid said he hadn't finished it yet, he'd been tied up with work. But once he has I expect him to spout forth, it was his idea after all!

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I haven't forgotten that thing about the contemporary reception of Pamela - I had a look for the notes from that lecture, and I think my parents must still have all my university folders in their loft somewhere. I was planning to see what I could get out of the books on my shelves then post to 18th_c_writing about it to see what other people have.