Meme-ness

[icarus]

Borrowed from teaphile:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
6. Tag five other people to do the same.

A Guide To The Bodhisattva's Way Of Life
By Shantideva

With folded hands I beseech
The conquerers who wish to pass away,
To please remain for countless aeons
And not to leave the world in darkness.

That really is the book next to the computer.

Your turn.

Comments

[jackoweskla.livejournal.com]

I've said it before, page 23 is not far enough along to get anything interesting:

"And in the evening the ordinary daily service is held. This manner of service is then observed every day throughout the year, certain solemn days excepted. But among all these details this is very plain, that suitable psalms or antiphons are always song; those at night, those in the morning, and those through the day, whether at the sixth hour or ninth hour or at vespers, being always suitable and intelligible as pertaining to the matter oat hand."

"Music in the Christian Churches of Jerusalem, c. AD 400", from Music in the Western World: A History in Documents, compiled by Weiss and Taruskin.

Mmmm, schoolbooks.