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Instructions:
1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open it to page 123
3. Find the fifth sentence
4. Post the text of the next four sentences after that in your LJ with these instructions:
No digging for your favorite book - it has to be the nearest one.
Tag five people.
I was actually really surprised that I didn't have a book on my desk (this is only because I actually put my Latin Grammar and several others back on my bookshelf yesterday so I had room to do my Greek homework without moving my laptop). I had to go to my back-pack and grab the first that came to hand. Unfortunately it was not the Aeneid in Latin (Vergili Opera).
"They attacked Scipio's waste of immense sums of money and his childish fondness for public games and theatrical performances, as if he had been appointed the impresario of some festival, not a commander on active service. As a result of these accusations tribunes were sent out with authority to recall Scipio to Rome, if the charges were proved to be true. However, Scipio was able to impress upon the tribunes that success in war depends upon the size of the preparations made for it, and furthermore that he could indulge in agreeable diversions with his friends during his hours of leisure without allowing his sociability to make him neglectful of his serious duties. At any rate his defence convinced the tribunes, and he set sail for Africa."
- Plutarch, "Biography of Cato the Elder" in Makers of Rome
Hmmmm ... and I will tag:
1.hobbitbabe
2.karenjeane
3.kuwdora
4.therealjae
5.denisia
Or you know, if you aren't interested I won't be offended if you don't.
phiremangstonInstructions:
1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open it to page 123
3. Find the fifth sentence
4. Post the text of the next four sentences after that in your LJ with these instructions:
No digging for your favorite book - it has to be the nearest one.
Tag five people.
I was actually really surprised that I didn't have a book on my desk (this is only because I actually put my Latin Grammar and several others back on my bookshelf yesterday so I had room to do my Greek homework without moving my laptop). I had to go to my back-pack and grab the first that came to hand. Unfortunately it was not the Aeneid in Latin (Vergili Opera).
"They attacked Scipio's waste of immense sums of money and his childish fondness for public games and theatrical performances, as if he had been appointed the impresario of some festival, not a commander on active service. As a result of these accusations tribunes were sent out with authority to recall Scipio to Rome, if the charges were proved to be true. However, Scipio was able to impress upon the tribunes that success in war depends upon the size of the preparations made for it, and furthermore that he could indulge in agreeable diversions with his friends during his hours of leisure without allowing his sociability to make him neglectful of his serious duties. At any rate his defence convinced the tribunes, and he set sail for Africa."
- Plutarch, "Biography of Cato the Elder" in Makers of Rome
Hmmmm ... and I will tag:
1.
hobbitbabe2.
karenjeane3.
kuwdora4.
therealjae5.
denisiaOr you know, if you aren't interested I won't be offended if you don't.
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Date: 2007-10-18 12:03 am (UTC)From:Okay, I'm not gonna post this in my journal because a) I don't really do content-free memes, and b) it's waaaay too embarrassing. But for you, my dear M:
Thus the debate between STV and MMP forces really boils down to their views of parties and what they believe the problems with parties are. STV supporters tend to see the existence of parties, and their behaviour, as a key contemporary political problem that voting-system reform should address. MMP supporters see the problem as being not so much with parties per se as with the fact that the current plurality system does not represent parties effectively. STV advocates hope to affect party behaviour by creating more competition *within* parties, while MMP advocates hope to affect party behaviour by increasing the competition *between* parties.
-J
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Date: 2007-10-18 12:13 am (UTC)From:-J
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Date: 2007-10-18 12:24 am (UTC)From:I can't really say that I'm surprised that this was what you had at hand. It actually made me grin a huge grin! I figured it would be something like this or maybe some cool linguistic thing in German.
I'm just lucky that the closest book to me wasn't the book of essays on Stargate that I just got in the mail the other day (not as good as I'd hoped so far, but with some interesting things like an explanation of how real wormholes would work by a real physicist). Now that would've been really embarrassing.
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Date: 2007-10-18 03:54 pm (UTC)From:-J
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Date: 2007-10-18 02:11 am (UTC)From:meme'age! yes!
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Date: 2007-10-18 02:27 am (UTC)From:"How long were you in the military?" she asked, envisioning Luke as a young, passionate warrior.
"Ten years."
"Did you enlist when you were eighteen?"
"Yes. I thought about going into law enforcement when my tour ended, but I changed my mind."
Cherokee Marriage Dare, by Sheri Whitefeather, No. 1478 (December) of the ever-classy Silhouette Romance series. It's just too bad page 123 isn't one of the choicer moments, like the part where she tricks him into having sex with her on the balcony of the royal palace of Altaria, the small European country of which her mother (we learn, much to our surprise) is a princess, or the part where she gets kidnapped and a gypsy tells him he's in love with her.
One million times better than, for example, Heidegger, or any of the other crap I'm supposed to be reading instead.