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[oloriel]

All right, all right. I'm succumbing to a même again. You're not surprised, are ya?

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth full sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually nearest to you (We already know you, no use trying to be pretentious).

And lo! "the nearest book" has on page 123 - a map. The Japanese Empire. With not so much as one full sentence, let alone five.

*grabs second-nearest*

"In the following year the family business went bankrupt and Santôka moved to Kumamoto, where he started a secondhand bookshop."
~ Keene, Donald. Dawn to the West. Japanese Literature of the Modern Era. Poetry, Drama, Criticism. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York 1984

Comments

[khamura.livejournal.com]

Ahh, Donald Keene. A recurring staple in the salad bowl of Japanocentric literature.