The rules:
- look up page 123 in the book that is nearest to you at this very minute
- look for the fifth sentence
- then post the three sentences that follow that fifth sentence on page 123.
I’m reasonably certain that I’ve done this meme before, but of course I’m too lazy to dig through the almost six years of archives to find it.
I’m currently reading Stephanie Coontz’s The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap, and the sentences tend to be long. Here goes:
Conservatives who endorse the Bush administration’s Gag Rule, which prohibits physicians in federally funded family planning clinics from even mentioning abortion as an option, tend to be outraged that courts and federal agencies have “hamstrung” teachers and principals in the public schools by prohibiting corporal punishment. Liberals alarmed by the denial of free speech in family planning clinics and the lack of civil liberties for pregnant women accused of alcohol or drug abuse have been far less concerned about the privacy rights of men accused of child abuse or rape.
In 1967, conservatives successfully advocated expansion of welfare workers’ power to remove children from their families when the mothers were unmarried, on grounds that lack of marriage constituted, in and of itself, a “poor environment” for children.
Yes, that was only three sentences.
I highly recommend The Way We Never Were; it’s very interesting, and knocks down pretty much every piece of rhetoric about “family values” or “tradition.”
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2 Responses to "123 meme"
Thanks for humoring me, Amber!
The book sounds VERY interesting. If I’m only going to see a small portion of the book, I’d rather see some big sentences than three-word things. Or is it that books get going by page 123?
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You gave me an idea for some text to put between some pictures.
Thank you.
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