Random Meme

[highlyeccentric]

via various places

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

Ic wylle mine æÞelo eallum gecyÞan, Þæt ic wæs on Mrycon miccles cynnes.
Which is from Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader. Specifically from The Battle of Maldon. no, i don't know what it means and i can't be bothered translating.

Comments

[flamearrows.livejournal.com]

Teehee

"The effect of discounting for Financial Year 2007 is considered to be immaterial"

[pathawi.livejournal.com]

'I'm a tell y'all 'bout my pedigree, that I was from a great clan of Mercia.'

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

Off topic, but have you seen this?

http://www.smh.com.au/news/books/jk-rowling-reveals-that-one-of-her-characters-is-gay/2007/10/20/1192301087070.html

Dumbledore's gay, according to JK in an interview in NYC!

I will meme in a bit...

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

In the case of Siam, Chulalongkorn's twenty-seven brothers in fact have been seen as the only reliable group of 'modernizers' in the kingdom, because most of the aristocracy did not attempt to obtain a Western education.

From Frank Tipton's The Rise of Asia, which I have to read for Asian History.

[daiskmeliadorn.livejournal.com]

"In a world of victims, he wrote, there are no innocents." (possibly the least interesting sentence on the page, sadly)