Hello all! This challenge thing has been floating it's way around the bloggosphere for a while so I thought I'd jump in too. I found it on Dan's blog and then linked back to a few others. The rules are as follows:
1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open to page 123; go down to the fourth sentence.
3. Post the text of the following three sentences.
4. Name the author and book title.
5. Tag three people to do the same.
"Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellow should run to cast their costliest robes. That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with the keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valour-ruined man. Nor can piety itself, at such a shameful sight, completely stifle her upbraidings against the permitting stars. But this august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and robes, but that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture."
Herman Mellville - Moby Dick
And since three people pretty much encompasses all my readership I thus tag you all - go forth and blindly grab at literature.
Should anyone take interest in my "next blog" game i think I shall formalise the rules so it resembles the more finely crafted game shown above. So my challenge to you all is, in the least amount of clicks possible to find
1. A "normal" blog - someone talking about what they do etc.
2. A themed blog - A particular musician, types of trees, etc.
3. A foreign language blog - It has to have at least 50% non-English content
4. A green blog - just the background, content can be anything
Post the links up on your blog and say how many clicks it took you, and drop me a comment so I can check it out. I'm on my sixth attempt and I still haven't found the first one!!!
Edits: I think I got the amount of sentences wrong but what the hey - also 50 bonus points if you happen to find a blog you already know of!!
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
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