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[taimatsu]

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 along with these instructions.
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.

The nearest book doesn't have a page 123 - it's a Penguin Great Ideas abridged edition of St Augustine's Confessions of a Sinner, and it goes up to page 114.

Instead, you get the book beneath it:

'There is always a risk that I'm going to get caught. I think that most of my women colleagues know I'm gay, and there's not much I can do about that. Many of them are gay themselves, and those that aren't don't make an issue about it.'

-- from We can't even march straight: Homosexuality in the British Armed Forces by Edmund Hall, published 1995. The above is reported speech from a female army captain.

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page 123 of 'The I-Ching on Love'

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"Reality also encompasses those feelings which are not easy to reconcile, but the process of comprehension involves a difficult transcendence of mere aesthetics, to the realm of creative art which endures in time as opposed to the transient art of fad & fashion."

from 'Aesthetics' on page 123 of 'The I-Ching on Love' by Guy Damien Knight