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
6 comments:
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.
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. :) )
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*
:) I made no comparison; I spoke only for myself. :)
And I don't know--I think you do pretty well.
there are so many possible ways to take that.... wow.
um....
thanks?
/:-)
so hey, guess what:
there's a new book club coming soon to a blog near you....
lol.
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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