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[pecunium]

I've been tagged to the recurrent "Page 123 game."

It's pretty simple really:

1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences here.
5. Put this list, and the answer, in your journal, tag five people and the madness continues.

I don't tag people, so if you feel like playing along, power to you; answer here, or in your journal (I'm more likely to see it here, the world in your journal).

Nearest book:
Food The History of Taste. University of Calif. Press 2007 Ed. Paul Freedman.

Page 123: Illus.

Page 124.

"The emperor's devotion to Buddhism evidently did not prevent his enjoyment of animal food, but on religious festival days and some other special occaisions he ate only vegetarian dishes. Buddhist influence, in combination with the exigencies of of sheer poverty had created a very strong vegetarian tradition in Chinese cuisine. At the imperial level, it is very likely that many of the dishes served to the emperor were vegetarian imitations of meat, and other non-vegetarian fare."

Comments

[yuripup.livejournal.com]

This time it happens to be James Clavell's Shogun.

When the fog lifted Omi was staring down at him.

One of the samurai had pulled the quilt off him, another had shaken him awake, the other two carried thin, vicious-looking bamboo canes. Mura had a short coil of rope.

[cjmr.livejournal.com]

Closest book that actually has 123 pages is my 10-year-old's test-prep book. Fortunately, page 123 has a reading passage...

"All living things are made of cells, though not all cells are exactly alike.

Both animal and plant cells have a cell membrane, which holds all the cell parts together. The nucleus is one of the largest parts of the cell."

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Ug, closest book will probably have something about cleaning glass eyes or perianal care. I'll spare ya, until after summer classes are over. ;)

[sharon-masters.livejournal.com]

"If you want useful information about doing safe scenes, you need to look into expressly indicted non-fiction columns in the magizines that carry such commentary.
There are also publications dedicted to nothing but delivering the real facts about leathersex and fetish activity.
Checkmate/Dungeon Master comes to mind, as do the newsletters of a lot of leather/ sm clubs".

Leather Sex Q&A
Joseph W. Bean.

i work in Leather Masters--- so my choices, while myriad, all have a theme:)

[lalouve.livejournal.com]

Aries, ovis cum agno gestant lanam, at non hircus cum capra et haedo. Porcus cum porcellis habet setas... Asinus et mulus gestat onera.

Excerpt from Comenius, in my Latin book - in which I was looking up something completely different. I don't think I ever read this part of it.

William Thackery. Vanity Fair

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

"Miss Sharp calculated (for she became, as we shall hear speedily, inducted into most of the secrets of the family) that the mere payment of his creditors cost the honourable Baronet several hundreds yearly; but this was a delight he could not forgo; he had a savage pleasure in making the poor wretches wait, and in shifting from court to court and from term to term the period of satisfaction."