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From Achelois:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the 5th Sentence.
4. Post the next 3 sentences.
5. Tag 5 people.
Ok, then. The nearest book by a couple of inches is Japanese Nõ Dramas, translated by Royall Tyler.
Sentences six to eight of page 123 run
The Waka-onna mask conveys her tender constancy and the play certainly dwells on her childhood. Yet it is no wonder that she once wore Fukai and Masugami. Her sisters in Zaemi’s plays are not only the young women of Pining Wind but the distraught singing girl of Lady Han and the tragic wife of The Fulling Block.
I hope you found that resonant!
And now the nominees!
Ah, memes! The crack cocaine of blogging or the anti-freeze?
I didn’t understand a word of that!
It rather, er, demands context, doesn’t it? It’s pretty incomprehensible without the glossary but rules are rules…
The tragic wife of The Fulling Block…does she tragically pine for her husband, the milliner dead from mercury poisoning…tragic, because she was the one who suggested hatmaking in the first place?
Oh, you devil.
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That’s cool. Imagine being “the tragic wife of The Fulling Block”? And I thought I’d had a bad day.
Crack cocaine, crack cocaine…!
(That’s not necessarily my opinion, I just felt like saying it).