a lazy day blog away...

The instructions i received to facilitate the playing of this game:

1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open to page 123, go down to the fifth sentence.
3. Post the text of next 3 sentences on your blog.
4. Name of the book and the author.
5. Tag three people.

I: Well damn, i sit next to a bookshelf with a few hundred books, and by closest to me, i can only infer they are referencing a measure of differing distances which are not at all easily discernible given the size and shape of the bookcase. I wonder if i should get up and get a tape measure and start with that problem. mmmmm okay, that narrows it down to three four choices all within a millimeter of difference in distance. We have Journeys in Microspace; The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, an Intimate History of Humanity, and Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. I therefore arbitrarly select the last volume for the thrill of the game.

II: the page heading is James Joyce and features a variety of entrees from "In Flanders Fields" to Joyce, James.

III:
Irving, Washington An American author of the nineteenth century; "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" are two of his best known works.
it is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done A sentence from the end of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
The Character who says this is about to die in place of another man.

IV: Hirsch, E.D., Kett, Joseph, Trefil, James: The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know.

V: I never tag other people