Et-tu Jen of all people should understand. You need explicit rules….none of this general stuff. Look at these rules.

Book Meme Rules:

1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

Excuse me? Nearest book? What if you have books equidisant to the left and to the right? Both in front and behind? I am not kidding here. All right let’s analyze this. The books to the front of me are slightly further away than to the left and to the right and behind me. I will assume that the act of turning around makes the closer physical distance actually “further away” because of the body motion involved. And besides closest if I turn around from the left? Or the right? Too many variables. That leaves to the left and to the right. Do some books not count? This meme is currently travelling Catholic blogs of late….what if we all quoted three sentences of our NAB? Bor.ing. What about cookbooks? Dictionaries? Those don’t seem like the content this meme is getting at. But in the interest of full disclosure….

To my left are three cookbooks. Tastefully Inpired (collected recipes from the most recent Epcot Food and Wine Festival)…less than 123 pages. Underneath that is the Moosewood Cookbook and on page 123 there are only 6 sentences so I think it is also disqualified. Underneath that is my Vita-Mix cookbook Whole Food Recipes For Better Living…page 123 is a divider with exactly one word “Sauces”.

To my right I have a mini world atlas…not exactly proper content. An original copy of Blessed Be God and on page 123 we have a Latin-English parts of a funeral Mass. Which are the first five sentences….the Latin side? The English side? Both? Too hard…besides I don’t want to type up Latin. Then we have McGuffey’s Eclectic Spelling Book….page 123 has word lists but not sentences. The Garlic Cookbook is next to that and that is less than 123 pages. The Holy Bible is after that but what if we all did the Bible? The next book after than is Night by Elie Wiesel….I was really excited about that one but alas it is 120 pages. Symbols of the Church and Holy Hour of Reparation are the next two books but are so skinny they don’t even warrant a look at the number of pages. At last we arrive at a good THICK book….it’s a thesaurus. Can you see why I hyperventilated when I saw this tag!?

How can Peleus get away with something so brazen? The other side of the bobbin gives us the answer. There, Herakles is pictured as neutralizing authority of Noah/Nereus so the Peleus can take whatever daughter he likes.

I am too stressed to tag anyone else….[grin]