Sat 2 Sep 2006
Juanita tagged me:
Random Bookishness
1. Grab the nearest book. Home Economics by Wendell Berry
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences (or paragraph) on your blog along with these instructions:
“Buildings and tools wear out, but the topsoil if properly used and maintained, will not wear out. Some agricultural soils have remained in continuous use for four or five thousand years or more. Third, the motives of agriculture are fundamentally different from the motives of industry.”
6. Tag five people. Ok, I tag myself.I have many books at my fingertips.
Random Bookishness
1. Grab the nearest book. Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences (or paragraph) on your blog along with these instructions:
5.
” The proper person for the mantle of Figaro is Scarmouche, who is naturally Figaro’s twin. (Me, you can say that again.) Thus tyrannized, the tyrant Binet gave way, comforted by the reflection that if he understood anything at all about the theatre, he had for fifteen livres a month acquired something that would presently be earning him as many louis. The company’s reception of the canevas(sp?) now confirmed him, if we except Polichinelle, who, annoyed at having lost half his part in the alterations, declared the new scenario fatuous.”
6. And me again.
Random Bookishness
1. Grab the nearest book. The Bible
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences (or paragraph) on your blog along with these instructions:
5.
” Leviticus 27:15-17 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his. And if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some part of a field of his possession, then they estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. If he sanctify his field from the year of jubilee, according to thy estimation it shall stand.”
6. Ok, I’m done I just don’t feel like copying sentences from Pensees or The Lees of Virginia. And I genuinely just picked up the books scattered around the computer. My son is in a quote war with a friend so my selection was rich.
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Just so you won’t be shut out:o) I understood your thought process Mama! Which son is in a quote war? Nick is the king of quotes; he should call him and ask for some good ones. “If we are marked to die we are anow to do our country loss, but if to live, the fewer men the greater share of honor. ” Timmay
Comment by Timothy (September 4, 2006 @ 1:01 am )
Thank-you for saving me from disgrace.
Believe it or not James and M are having a quote war. I believe that replaces their comment war.
Comment by Cindy (September 4, 2006 @ 8:26 am )