Falling for the random book meme
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hrj1. Grab the nearest book.
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.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.
6. Tag five people. (omitted)
Ok, so I know that it's not ok to search for a "cool" book rather than taking the nearest one. But is it ok to resist this particular meme until the day it crosses my screen when the nearest book is ...
Ac atteb a orvc y dat ydaw y rodei ef ydaw yn dreul vgeinpunt peunyd o vwnei y wlat honno.
Ar mab pan gigleu hynny adyuot nachigleu ef eiryoet vot brenhin yn gyflocwas na mynnei ynteu vot.
Ac wrth hynny y mab wedy kymrut kyngor ohonaw agerdawd y dinas twrys y geissyaw aryan yn echwyn ygan y bwrdeissyeit.
As penance, I shall now attempt to translate without any reference books.
"And his father made an answer to him [that] he would give to him as ??? a penance of twenty pounds of the money of that land.
"And the son, when he heard that and came [???], he had never heard that the king would be a ???-boy, nor that he wished to be.
"And with that, the son -- having taken counsel -- travelled to Dinas Twrys to obtain silver as a ??? from the burgesses."
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.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.
6. Tag five people. (omitted)
Ok, so I know that it's not ok to search for a "cool" book rather than taking the nearest one. But is it ok to resist this particular meme until the day it crosses my screen when the nearest book is ...
Ac atteb a orvc y dat ydaw y rodei ef ydaw yn dreul vgeinpunt peunyd o vwnei y wlat honno.
Ar mab pan gigleu hynny adyuot nachigleu ef eiryoet vot brenhin yn gyflocwas na mynnei ynteu vot.
Ac wrth hynny y mab wedy kymrut kyngor ohonaw agerdawd y dinas twrys y geissyaw aryan yn echwyn ygan y bwrdeissyeit.
As penance, I shall now attempt to translate without any reference books.
"And his father made an answer to him [that] he would give to him as ??? a penance of twenty pounds of the money of that land.
"And the son, when he heard that and came [???], he had never heard that the king would be a ???-boy, nor that he wished to be.
"And with that, the son -- having taken counsel -- travelled to Dinas Twrys to obtain silver as a ??? from the burgesses."
