- Grab the nearest book.
- Open it to page 56.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
- Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
From Handel's Messiah edited by Watkins Shaw.
It's really a mess with the different voice parts. And we really don't get 5 sentences in one page, so I guess I'll pick the 5th phrase. Hey! It's the hardest line I have in Messiah (bass, choral). "For un-to us a child is born.". The only issue is that the "o" in born continues for 56 notes at high speed.