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[sildil]

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 mirien, marchwarden23, jaiden_s, nienna_weeper and 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...)

Comments

[elfbystarlight.livejournal.com]

Hehe!

Some authors can get away with it, and some cheat by being born in eras without punctuation [glares at Chaucer]. One day I'm going to reread the entire Patrick O'Brian canon purely to discover 1) longest sentence and 2) most commas used in a single sentence. And I shall report back, no fear, so all may be educated.

[elfbystarlight.livejournal.com]

Also, I totally misread the quoted para as 'a philanthropist who founded in the City of London a society for undressed soldiers and sailors'. Now that's dedication to the public good, no?

[sildil]

Oh yes, and some get away with it because the subject is inherently interesting/exciting/whatever that you forgive them for it!

Ohh please do! x

[sildil]

Oh yes, I did something similar!

And I LOVE your icon.

AND BLOODY ilye_elf has now got me into BLOODY GO slash!!!

[veetvoojagig.livejournal.com]

I'd play, but at the moment I'm equidistant from two different bookshelves all filled with books. And there aren't any laying on the desk as usual. Bleh.

[elfbystarlight.livejournal.com]

Oh noes! :-O

:D Isn't she dreadful? She incites the purchase of computers too, the vile temptress.

[sildil]

LOL! Yeah I have seen this meme lots of times and fancied doing it, but have always been in the same position as you!

[deathangelgw.livejournal.com]

dude...do you know how hard it was for me to find a book that wasn't a Japanese manga?! Dude not funny! I had to go with a book of religion my mom gave me! Not cool!

[sildil]

LOL! I only did this because I knew I had a whole shelf of books (all architecture) within arms reach! xxx

[marchwarden23.livejournal.com]

Why am I not surprised it's architecture?

Sorry I missed you by literally minutes last night. Hopefully we'll hook up at some point! LOL

[jaiden-s.livejournal.com]

Oops. Replied to the wrong spot. Will do it if I can find the time.

[sildil]

Yeah, shelves FULL of the stuff!

I KNEW as I switched off that there was probably a message winging its happy way through the ethers!

Lates <3

[sildil]

Goody!

And LOVE the icon x