Meme stolen from
meizen 1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. 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.
6. Tag five people
"For what purpose are these innocent old men and women and children, all these subtle, kind, humane people, mocked and beaten up throughout the centuries? And why is it that all these literary friends of 'the people' of all nations are always so untalented? Why didn't the intellectual leaders of the Jewish people ever go beyond the facile Weltschmerz and ironical wisdom? Why have they not - even if at the risk of bursting like boilers with the pressure of their duty - disbanded this army which keeps on fighting and being massacred nobody knows for what?"
Doctor Zhivago sure is cheerful, innit? XD
I tag whoever wants to do this.