Bookworm Meme
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BOOKWORM:
1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog 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.
[Greek word], to peg someone in a spread-eagle position, seems at Eq 371 to mean "bugger." [Greek word] at Timocl. 2.2 Dem. may have an obscene meaning. [Greek word], to hew with an axe ([Greek word]): Arar. 5, [Greek phrase], and your daughter, when that fellow put his axe to her... (see AB 112.18).
From (I kid you not): The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy, by Jeffrey Henderson.
My nearest book was about how to describe someone getting buggered in classical Greek. I love it.
taro_twist
BOOKWORM:
1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog 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.
[Greek word], to peg someone in a spread-eagle position, seems at Eq 371 to mean "bugger." [Greek word] at Timocl. 2.2 Dem. may have an obscene meaning. [Greek word], to hew with an axe ([Greek word]): Arar. 5, [Greek phrase], and your daughter, when that fellow put his axe to her... (see AB 112.18).
From (I kid you not): The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy, by Jeffrey Henderson.
My nearest book was about how to describe someone getting buggered in classical Greek. I love it.