I have a predilection for Internet memes, as everyone knows, but I don’t usually succumb to posting any references to them on this blog. Truth to be told I prefer the unabashedly inane sort so commonly found on message boards to the tedious radio button selection / random factoid generation that characterizes most blog memes. This 123 meme is intriguing, though - I’ll make an exception, then. Well, also because both Mel and Chun Wui have tagged me, and evidently I am one to succumb to peer pressure easily.
Instructions:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.
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Seems like the book in closest proximity is The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy. Oh great, long sentences for sure.
Right, here’s the extract:
The expeditionary force sent to Flanders and Holland under the Duke of York in 1793-1795 had neither the strength nor the expertise to deal with the French army, and its remnant eventually came home via Bremen. Moreover, as so often happened before and since, ministers (such as Dundas and Pitt) preferred the “British way in warfare” - colonial operations, maritime blockade, and raids upon the enemy’s coast - to any large-scale continental operation. Given the overwhelming superiority of the Royal Navy and the disintegration of its French equivalent, this looked like an attractive and easy option.
Alright, now to tag five people, yes? I’m going to have to be the dead end here - blame my limited social circle and its constituents for not being avid bloggers.
