Another in an occasional series of memes. I think I've seen this one before, but it's been awhile. Julie tagged me. The meme rules:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.
The nearest book to my hand is Always Faithful, by Captain William W. Putney, D.V.M., U.S.M.C. It's a memoir of the Marine dogs of World War Two, and it was a present from the Paragraph Farm's European Bureau Chief.
But the nearest book, period, is the one next to my foot: Northwest Passage, by Kenneth Roberts.
"It takes time to conceal a hundred and sixty men and seventeen whaleboats in open country, but we did it-- did it in the darkness, without lights or fires, and so thoroughly that when daylight came, we had apparently vanished from the face of the earth. Through the 20th of September we lay opposite Grand Isle in a pelting rainstorm and saw nothing. On the 21st, hiding abreast of a passageway between the islands, we saw four scout canoes prowling from cove to cove along the western shore."
Here's where I break the meme: I'm not tagging five people. But if you see this post and it inspires you to play, let me know. Meanwhile, ice cream and theology beckon (okay, maybe not tonight, but soon).
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Heavens to Betsy! Northwest Passage, by one of my all-time favorite forgotten classic authors, Kenneth Roberts AND Always Faithful, which I recently read (but I think I forgot to put it on my "read" list). We definitely are book soul mates if nothing else! :-)
I'll play. From the Winter's Tale, by Mark Helprin:
Isaac Penn was in many ways a genius. But he was also peculiar and eccentric. Enamored of the sciences, he had wanted to name his last child Oxygen, but everyone had prevailed to get him to choose a more conventional appelation, which was lucky for little Willa.
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