Book Me
"1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 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 (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1)."
The text begins on page 125 rather than 123 (after the introductions), so:
"Every useful thing, for example, iron, paper, etc, may be looked at from the two points of view of quality and quantity. Every useful thing is a whole composed of many propertiesl it can therefore be useful in various ways. The discovery of these ways and hence of the manifold uses of things is the work of history. So also is the invention of socially recognized standards of measurement for the quantities of these useful objects. The diversity of the measures for commodities arises in part from the diverse nature of the objects to be measured, and in part from convention."
Honestly, the nearest book was Volume 1 of "Capital" in the Penguin edition.