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sildil ([personal profile] sildil) wrote2007-02-10 05:19 pm

Snatched shamelessly from [livejournal.com profile] elfbystarlight

1. Grab the nearest book. ( Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or"intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.)
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Tag 5 people.

'English Country Houses ~ Baroque ~ 1685-1715' by James Lees-Milne

'...Certainly the style accords less with William's conservative Stanford elevations than Francis's Calke Abbey and Chicheley Hall with their baroque use of the giant order. The 4th Baronet lived until 1747. His second son, also Sir John, the 6th Baronet, a philanthropist who founded in the City of London a society for distressed soldiers and sailors, redecorated the ceilings of hall and saloon in a restrained Rococco style...'
(referring to Stanford Hall, designed by William Smith of Tettenhall, the older brother of the more famous Francis, or Smith of Warwick)

Well, there you go. And believe it or not, I DO know what it's going on about...

...AAAAAAAAAND I tag anyone who wants to do it, but particularly [livejournal.com profile] mirien, [livejournal.com profile] marchwarden23, [livejournal.com profile] jaiden_s, [livejournal.com profile] nienna_weeper and [livejournal.com profile] deathangelgw!

(Oh, and a sudden thought when reading this back...you know if I tried to write a sentence that had FOUR commas in it, I would think I was doing VERY poorly! Methinks the author didn't have a beta...)

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