Page 123 meme

[kerravonsen]

I've been tagged by rj_anderson:
Grab the nearest book, open to page 123, find the fifth sentence. Then post the next three sentences. Tag five people and post a comment to the person who tagged you (your taggees will post to you).

From "The Land Behind the World" by Anne Spencer Parry:

Not a Flug was to be seen. The earth was trampled and black with slimy dead plants, and scraps of screwed up paper and empty tins littered the clearing. He stepped gingerly across it, searching for any clue that might have been left either by the Flugs or his own people.

Oh, and I guess I'd better tag people. Feel free to ignore the tagging if you so prefer.
astrogirl2
kalquessa
kalypso_v
lizbee
vilakins

Comments

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Next THREE sentences, please! :D I have to know what a Flug is...

[kerravonsen]

Ooops!

[kerravonsen]

Now three sentences, though it still doesn't tell you what a Flug is...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's German for 'flight' so are they avian?

[kerravonsen]

Nope.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

But the FTP did not suit everyone. New Zealand, who continued to struggle to secure reciprocal tours, played just two Tests in 2007, and the series in England in 2008 will be their first outside Australasia and southern Africa in four years. But they remained a successful limited-overs side, reaching the semi-finals of the World Cup (in the last assignment of Stephen Fleming's ten-year reign as captain) and the World Twenty20.

[kerravonsen]

Ha! Cricket! Why am I not surprised?

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

There's no point my doing this meme more than once a year (since they always seem to specify page 123), because the book immediately next to the keyboard is always the same one until the next one arrives. But that was very recently, so this was a good time to ask!

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

That must be from Wisden 2008. Instead of doing page 123, you could equally well have done page 1234. :)

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

If you insist... um... I'll ignore the picture caption but count the half-sentence at the top of the continuing text (or vice versa):

The next few days were inglorious. India's authorities claimed, bizarrely, that it was impossible for an Indian to be racist. They threatened to call off the tour unless Harbhajan's ban was overturned, and the team, instead of travelling to Canberra as scheduled, took refuge in their Sydney hotel.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I wasn't insisting. :)

No prizes for guessing what that was about.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Skimming through, catching up on the flist, I see that I have been tagged. So:

On the other hand, we can see, bearing in mind that all organic beings are striving to increase at a high ratio and to seize on every unoccupied or less well occupied place in the economy of nature, that it is quite possible for natural selection gradually to fit a being to a situation in which several organs would be superfluous or useless; in such cases there would be retrogression in the scale of organisation. Whether organisation on the whole has actually advanced from the remotest geological periods to the present day will be more conveniently discussed in our chapter on Geological Succession.
     But it may be objected that if all organic beings thus tend to rise in the scale, how is it that throughout the world a multitude of the lowest forms still exist; and how is it that in each great class some forms are far more highly developed than others?

(from The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. Brilliant guy, but long-winded. :))

[kerravonsen]

Well, he had to be long-winded because it was all new.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

It was also very much the style at the time, too. :)