{"id":360,"date":"2005-03-25T12:13:51","date_gmt":"2005-03-25T17:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=360"},"modified":"2005-03-25T12:13:51","modified_gmt":"2005-03-25T17:13:51","slug":"on-a-book-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"On a Book Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

I received this on an e-mail list this morning–<\/p>\n

Here are the rules:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Grab the nearest book.<\/li>\n
  2. Open the book to page 123.<\/li>\n
  3. Find the fifth sentence.<\/li>\n
  4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog (or to this mailing list) along with these instructions.<\/li>\n
  5. Don\u2019t 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.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Here goes. Book closest at hand, Le Seigneur dex Anneaux: Le Retour du Roi<\/i>. Yes, for some inexplicable reason the book sitting on my desk is a French translation of Tolkien’s The Return of the King<\/i>.<\/p>\n

    No, I’m not going to bother with the accents grave and ague.<\/p>\n

    \nIl voyait devant lui un homme doue d’un air de haute noblesse, telle qu’en montrait parfois Aragorn, mais haute peut-etre, mais aussi moins imprevue et vauge: un des Rois des Hommes ne a une epoque ulterieure, mais touche par la sagesse et la tristesse de la Race Ancienne. Il savait a present pourquoi Beregond prononcait son nom avec amour. C’etait un capitaine que les hommes suivaient volontiers, qu’il suivrait lui-meme, fut-ce sous l’ombre des ailes noires.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Which in Tolkien’s original reads as:<\/p>\n

    \nHere was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalcuable and remote: one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Elder Race. He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I received this on an e-mail list this morning– Here are the rules: Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 123. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog (or to this mailing list) along with these instructions. Don\u2019t you dare dig for that “cool” orContinue reading “On a Book Meme”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,135],"tags":[941,368,4107,4101],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-tolkien","tag-french","tag-lord-of-the-rings","tag-memes","tag-reading","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}