Random Passage

(via Kitabkhana)

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

'A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.'
-- Jane Austen, Persuasion
I heartily agree... *looking around his room, shaking his head...*

Comments

[MC]

It is therefore entirely in the Chesterton-Bentley tradition for enterprising boys to start and run a paper of their own, and were G.K.C with us today he would welcome the latest of "the long series of attempts on the part of Paulines to write journalism to amuse themselves and each other - but especially themselves.

[Simon]

Illusion de l'ignoble qui attire tant d'etres!
-- Maupassant, Piere et Jean (preface)

Oh, the joys of French coursework...

Mike: what's your quote from?

[sceefy]

Hehe I like the quotation, Mike. As Simon said, where's it from?

[Jaycee]

Additionally (~li), adv. in addition to.

Websters approved dictionary, published 1949