Saturday, October 30, 2004

Fun with books

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence as a comment on my blog.
5. Post the text of the sentence on your own blog, along with these instructions.

Mine:

"If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why may not another man say it does not mean some other man?"

-- Benson Bobrick, "Testament: A Soldier's Story of the Civil War."

(Idea swiped from Erudite Redneck at http://eruditeredneck.blogspot.com/, who swiped it from http://well-yah.blogspot.com)

2 comments:

CrystalDiggory said...

"There is a desire to cull the best of heritage and weave it back into daily life."
Al Burt, "The Tropic of Cracker."

Erudite Redneck said...

"Within the earth was the molten core of Hell, where the damned dwelt as far away from God as possible."
-- Robert Bucholz and Newton Key, "Early Modern England, 1485-1714: A Narrative History."