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drpaisleyGrab the book nearest you. Right now.
Turn to page 56.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post that sentence along with these instructions on your LJ.
Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.
There is a small bookcase immediately behind me. Turn to the left:
"His first band included brothers Dennis and Carl (who got expeled from hawthorne high for going to the bathroom without permission), cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine."
"The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Completely Revised and Updated"
or the right:
"Craffus undertook to fatisfy the most clamorous of them, to the amount of 830 talents, about L. 160,000 of our money Plutarch."
"Classical Biography: Exhibiting Alphabetically the Proper Names, with a Short Account of the Several Dieties, Heroes, and Other Persons, Mentioned in the Ancient Classic Authors, and a More Particular Description of the Most Distinguished Characters Among the Romans; the Whole eing Intersperesed with Occasional Explanations of Words and Phrases."
Designed Chiefly to Contribute to the Illustration of the Latin Classics.
By Alexander Adam, L.L.D. Sector of the High School, Edinburgh.
Edinburgh: Printed for William Creech; and T. Cadell, Jun & W. Davies, London.
1800.
That's the complete title page. The Library of Congress has a second printing of this book. Mine's a first, purchased at the Conestoga Charity Auction a few years ago.
Turn to page 56.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post that sentence along with these instructions on your LJ.
Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.
There is a small bookcase immediately behind me. Turn to the left:
"His first band included brothers Dennis and Carl (who got expeled from hawthorne high for going to the bathroom without permission), cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine."
"The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Completely Revised and Updated"
or the right:
"Craffus undertook to fatisfy the most clamorous of them, to the amount of 830 talents, about L. 160,000 of our money Plutarch."
"Classical Biography: Exhibiting Alphabetically the Proper Names, with a Short Account of the Several Dieties, Heroes, and Other Persons, Mentioned in the Ancient Classic Authors, and a More Particular Description of the Most Distinguished Characters Among the Romans; the Whole eing Intersperesed with Occasional Explanations of Words and Phrases."
Designed Chiefly to Contribute to the Illustration of the Latin Classics.
By Alexander Adam, L.L.D. Sector of the High School, Edinburgh.
Edinburgh: Printed for William Creech; and T. Cadell, Jun & W. Davies, London.
1800.
That's the complete title page. The Library of Congress has a second printing of this book. Mine's a first, purchased at the Conestoga Charity Auction a few years ago.