Aug. 2nd, 2006

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Aug. 2nd, 2006 04:06 pm
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Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
Don’t you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.


Among the better portion of these rival tribes ancient prejudices are fast sinking into oblivion or subsiding into a generous emulation. They rarely intermarry, but in other respects the difference of creeds, by which they are as strongly marked as by national descent, seldom breaks the harmony or intrudes on the charities and civilities of social life. Some inconsiderable party riots, excited by a few malignant spirits, the partisans of the Orange and the Green factions, outcasts of society and destested by all, do not invalidate this assertion; the great mass of the people is peaceful and tranquil.


From the ever-scintillating Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, vol. 31. That particular passage was, rather depressingly, written in 1821, about the "contrast between the Irish and the Scotch". Alas, we didn't get Claudy Parish, which contains possibly one of the best sentences ever written, the beautifully simple "There are four idiots in Claudy.".

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