Testing, testing, 123 . . .

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Thanks, Erin. 🙂

Herewith, the rules:
Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!)
Find Page 123.
Find the first 5 sentences.
Post the next 3 sentences.
Tag 5 people.

My wife happened to be walking up to me with a book just as I caught the tag, so the book is Camp’s Unfamiliar Quotations from 2000 B. C. to the Present (which should be a fruitful source for this sort of thing).

(Our topic is “Greed,” btw; the book is arranged thematically.)

“Yuppies’ creed: ‘I want it all and I want it now.'”

—Russell Baker, New York Times, February 6, 1988

“I think the enemy is here before us. . . . I think the enemy is simple selfishness and compulsive greed. . . . I think he stole our earth from us, destroyed our wealth, and ravaged and despoiled our land.”

—Thomas Wolfe, You Can‘t Go Home Again, 1949

Weird meme. 🙂 So, tags:

Sara
Wayne
Ruth
Doug
Bill

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6 Comments

  1. Thanks Rob. This is an interesting meme because it’s so random. And it’s fun to see what everyone is reading.

    And I agree the enemy is selfishness…wish it didn’t have such a hold on me.

  2. Yeah, that’s an interesting quote from Wolfe; most of the time, we really don’t see the damage our selfishness does.

    And I’ll certainly grant the randomness factor. (My own case was certainly random enough. 🙂 )

  3. Yours?! Sheesh – at least you had an excuse for the randomness. I haven’t looked at the Book of Common Prayer in weeks, and I have no idea why it’s next to my bed. Probably because I was “cleaning” (er… moving stuff around into more organized-looking piles… emphasis on looking… organization: none)

    And I’m sorry to say I am all too familiar with the damage my selfishness does. Tho I probably don’t see the half of it… *sigh*

  6. Yes, it was a compliment. 🙂

    And I’ve been following that thread, but it didn’t look to me like anyone with a Y chromosome was welcome, so I haven’t thrown my $0.02 in.

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