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Book Meme

Or, How I am Going to Get Gordo Back, Someday

I've been tagged by the G-man, so I have to do this, like it or not:

The book meme task is to "grab the nearest book (that is at least 123 pages long). Open to p. 123. Go down to the 5th sentence. Type in the following 3 sentences."

The results

'Some old Jew offered us a packet of money for it and we were damned hard up at the time, so my governor sold it.'

I noticed that Elliott, bristling, threw a venomous glance at the jovial marquess, and guessed that it was he who had bought the picture. He was furious at hearing himself, Virginian born and the descendant of a signatory of the Declaration, thus described.

Guess the title of the book in the comments and win a WWDD? tee-shirt.

(I'm skipping the final step, to tag five others. Partly on principle — these memes are like chain letters in the analog world — and partly because I know full well that there aren't five regular readers of WWDD? If there were a way to tag the referrers spammers, I'd be in business.)

I really wish...

...I had thought to tag spammers.

  • By Gordo at Feb 18 2008 - 10:10pm
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