book meme

[readingthedark]

Grab the book nearest you. Right now. Turn to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

"I suspect that the universe is full of races like our own, struggling to evolve."

Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites

(The Supernatural Metaphysical Cult Thriller Monkfish edition with the Gary Lachman intro)

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[poultrygeist99.livejournal.com]

"These and other great systems of measure have been adopted as barriers against error and guilt; they have been extended over empires, prolonged through centuries, and administered with terrible energy; and yet the great ocean of vice and crime overleaps every embankment, pours down upon our heads, saps the foundations under our feet, and sweeps away the securities of social order, of property, liberty, and life."

Horace Mann, "Twelfth Annual Report to the Massachusetts Board of Education" (1848) in James W. Fraser, The School in the United States: A Documentary History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.