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1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence and post it.
4. 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.
5. In a new post, copy and paste the previous entries and instructions and add your new entry from Page 23 from your closest book below the old entries.
6. Post as "pg. 23, line 5"
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shell: "images trigger the artist brain"
Zach: "Ay, thou poor ghost, while memories hold a seat in this distracted globe. Remember thee?"
April: "Within the body-mind-spirit movement, everything from exorcisms to the burning of sage is used to cleanse room, residences, and buildings of their negative forces."
Magvis: "The Historian John Fiske wrote: 'It is enough to point to the general conclusion that the work which the English race began when it colonized North America is destined to go on until every land on the earth's surface that is not already the seat of an old civilization shall become English in its language, in its religion, in its political habits and traditions, and to a predominant extent in the blood of its people.'"
GrimJesta: "The designated post rider for each of these towns then stumbled from his bed, saddled his horse, and pounded through the night to a predetermined series of other towns in a network radiating outward from Charlestown, north and westward, waking each town's or village's contingent of militia and Minutemen." [Hallahan, William H, The Day the American Revolution Began]
Davinya: "We are introduced in the fourth book to the civilising power of Magic amongst barbarous races, to the natural productions of science amidst peoples still in their childhood, to the mystery of the Druids and their miracles, to the legends of bards, and it is shewn after what manner these things concurred in the formation of societies, thus preparing a brilliant and permanent victory for Christianity." [Eliphas Levi (a wordy man), The History of Magic]
Kim13: "A record manufactured from recycled vinyl with poor plating (too many from the past 15 years) may look Mint and play VG."
Charlie: "Unless you have any reason to suspect a murder, I'd have to say shark."
Buzz: "Stack two tomato and two orange slices alternately on each of 4 salad plates. Drizzle each stack with about 1 tablespoon of the dressing. Serve at once."
Amy: "I'm hoping the babysitter will call my mother when I don't come back and my mother will come home from England to find me."
Tanya: "Dick had three axes under his arm." [In Our Time-Hemingway]
Jill: "Describe guidelines used for abstracting data and assessing data quality and validity (such as criteria for causal inference)." [AMA 10th ed]
Sorise: "What is left behind is a gem of an album, a well-recorded spot of hard-charging prog that pretty much has moved on from psych, Andromeda really helping create the genre as it was considered through the heyday of the early '70s" [collectors guide to heavy metal:70s]
amyg: "early to mid-september, according to the lunar cycle (15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese calendar)."
Kim: "These include short RNA fragments and peptides, which we are now beginning to understand."
Lanie: "Although not as expensive as program impact research, outcome measurement requires resources."
jesidawkins: "To strengthen the case, the nose of the baby was broken to make her look more like the horse-faced king." [Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors]
Aronnax: "In a region of gently dipping beds, such strata, by resisting down-cutting, produce much the same effect as that of final stream-adjustment to base level." [E. Robert Pohl, "Geologic Investigations at Mammoth Cave Kentucky" Washington, D. C. In "Cave Research Foundation: Origins and the First Twelve Years 1957-1968 (Yellow Springs: Cave Books, 1968)]
Melles: "For Desks, Credenzas and Returns." [Office Max. It was really the closest thing to me.]
Astro: "Boson's Chair, Safe Use Of: There's one good rule of thumb about working with a boson's chair: If you fall, it's your oun fault."
Angie: "Dare one pretend that there is anything in common between people with $100,000 a year and people with $1 a week?" (Sorry, I don't know how to make the UK pound sign on here, so we're going to go with dollars.)
Matt: "These big-city networks of financial companies and railroads persisted in roughly their mid-century form until they were transformed between 1895 and 1904 by a massive merger movement, which created a national corporate network that included huge industrial corporations for the first time." [Who Rules America?]
Dale Marie: "The myth of Persephone speaks directly to the distortion in this view by reminding us that narcissism leads to death, that the fertility of the earth is in some mysterious way tied to the continuation of the mother-daughter relationship and that the life cycle itself arises from an altercation between the world of women and that of men." [IN A DIFFERENT VOICE: PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY AND WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT, Carol Gillian]
Rachel Anne:
"I am so close to you
yet so far
so mixed with you
yet so alone
i've become known
while disguised
so healthy yet
painful inside"
[from "Dancing the Flame, Rumi" translated by Nader Khalili]
Jeremy opio: "it should be noted that in psychology. if the client comes in with the problem, 'i am worthless,' it is assumed that this is truly the problem." [The Beginners guide to Quantum Psychology]
heather joi yoshiyahu: "and what is more, within three years of this experience he entered a monastery"
kellyann: "Surely if the earth was going to be that restless, there was going to be greater consequences." [Mary Summer Rain]
Elgaroo: "Saying no word the mage came past Ged, and lighted the lamp, and put the books away on their shelf."
desierto: "Only number non-empty lines."
theoldanarchist: "In a nearby courtyard with a flashlight guiding me, I filled in the search and arrest warrants."