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via various places

  1. Grab the nearest book.
  2. Open the book to page 123.
  3. Find the fifth sentence.
  4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
  5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

Ic wylle mine æÞelo eallum gecyÞan, Þæt ic wæs on Mrycon miccles cynnes.
Which is from Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader. Specifically from The Battle of Maldon. no, i don't know what it means and i can't be bothered translating.

Date: 2007-10-20 04:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flamearrows.livejournal.com
Teehee

"The effect of discounting for Financial Year 2007 is considered to be immaterial"

Date: 2007-10-20 05:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com
my gosh, that's exciting!

Date: 2007-10-20 05:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flamearrows.livejournal.com
Well, any book that's titled "Australian Accounting Standards" isn't exactly promising a fun-filled afternoon.

Date: 2007-10-20 05:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com
conceded.

could be worse. i've been known to spend evenings with the "concordance to the anglo-saxon poetic records"... which is basically just lists.

Date: 2007-10-20 06:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pathawi.livejournal.com
'I'm a tell y'all 'bout my pedigree, that I was from a great clan of Mercia.'

Date: 2007-10-20 10:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pathawi.livejournal.com
Nah, dude. Your kung fu is way better 'n mine. Translating a single verse of Old English is a mere bagatelle. Maintaining a blog about medievalism, life, &c. what people read is real magicks.

Date: 2007-10-20 10:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com
i'm continually surprised to find people do read it... i keep slipping back into the habit of thinking this is just my excuse for procrastination, and then the likes of you turn up out of the blue.

Date: 2007-10-20 06:56 am (UTC)
ext_3638: I'm in ur history, emphasising ur wimminz (Default)
From: [identity profile] kayloulee.livejournal.com
Off topic, but have you seen this?

http://www.smh.com.au/news/books/jk-rowling-reveals-that-one-of-her-characters-is-gay/2007/10/20/1192301087070.html

Dumbledore's gay, according to JK in an interview in NYC!

I will meme in a bit...

Date: 2007-10-20 07:13 am (UTC)
ext_3638: I'm in ur history, emphasising ur wimminz (Default)
From: [identity profile] kayloulee.livejournal.com
Bree rang me "guess what - go to SMH!"

I shrieked.

Date: 2007-10-20 07:19 am (UTC)
ext_3638: I'm in ur history, emphasising ur wimminz (Default)
From: [identity profile] kayloulee.livejournal.com
In the case of Siam, Chulalongkorn's twenty-seven brothers in fact have been seen as the only reliable group of 'modernizers' in the kingdom, because most of the aristocracy did not attempt to obtain a Western education.

From Frank Tipton's The Rise of Asia, which I have to read for Asian History.

Date: 2007-10-20 07:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com
i still think i win the obsurity competition, and [livejournal.com profile] flamearrows wins the boring competition.

Date: 2007-10-20 08:56 am (UTC)
ext_3638: I'm in ur history, emphasising ur wimminz (Default)
From: [identity profile] kayloulee.livejournal.com
I think so too. Fortunately, that section of the book I quoted is not one of the bits I need to read. Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Indonesian politicking is enough for me!

Date: 2007-10-21 02:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daiskmeliadorn.livejournal.com
"In a world of victims, he wrote, there are no innocents." (possibly the least interesting sentence on the page, sadly)

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