Monday, January 31, 2005
Turn to Page 123
Fellow blogger and friend The Downtown Guy -- http://downtownguy.blogspot.com -- whose entire blog is dedicated to the promotion of downtown Oklahoma City, a cause I support but a fetish I do not share, has launched one of those fun what-are-you-reading games.
He wants Page 123, sentence 5.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. In a comment on this blog, and on your own blog, post the sentence along with these instructions.
(He's kinda persnickety about it. He says:)
5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
(Pbththp. The first book I grabbed didn't have five sentences on Page 123, and the next one didn't have any text at all on Page 123. So, wing it!)
Mine:
"On one point, official Union policy appeared to be clear: active guerillas were outlaws and were to be executed when captured in arms on the field rather than to be treated like regular prisoners of war."
-- from Michael Fellman, Inside War: The Guerilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Editorial comment: This is one official policy the damn Union should've kept. Would've made Guatanamo moot!
--ER
He wants Page 123, sentence 5.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. In a comment on this blog, and on your own blog, post the sentence along with these instructions.
(He's kinda persnickety about it. He says:)
5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
(Pbththp. The first book I grabbed didn't have five sentences on Page 123, and the next one didn't have any text at all on Page 123. So, wing it!)
Mine:
"On one point, official Union policy appeared to be clear: active guerillas were outlaws and were to be executed when captured in arms on the field rather than to be treated like regular prisoners of war."
-- from Michael Fellman, Inside War: The Guerilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Editorial comment: This is one official policy the damn Union should've kept. Would've made Guatanamo moot!
--ER
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Interesting, hearing you say that E.R. No Quantrell, no border wars. Talk about changing the course of history!
I'll post my passage on my blog.
I'll post my passage on my blog.
i played along the last time you did this, but i'm not reading anything even vaguely interesting until february 25. don't want to bore my meager audience with things like indefesibly vested remainders, and rule against perpetuities!
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